Nature shines new light on a very old hominid – “Neo,” the ape-like Homo naledi who may have coexisted with early modern humans:
… Read the rest “Humans didn’t live with dinosaurs… but maybe with ape-men.”H. naledi was uncovered in the Rising
This is the head and neck of a raven, Corvus corax sinuatus, as dissected and drawn by Robert W. Shufeldt.
I look at this and am impressed by the beauty of the anatomy. Then … Read the rest “Science Art: The Myology of the Raven, 1890”
Science News shows how Mars might not have formed with the rest of solid worlds of the inner solar system:
… Read the rest “Mars might be a *really* alien planet.”Simulating the assembly of the solar system around 4.56 billion years ago, researchers
Science News looks at broken bones – specifically, how modern bone breaks seem so different from the injuries we see in Neanderthal skeletons. Why should modern tree-climbing, … Read the rest “The closest we come to getting Neanderthal injuries? Water-tubing.”
Nature reveals the remains of a 130,000-year-old barbecue… that opens a controversial – and way, way older – chapter of human history in the Americas:
… Read the rest “Humans reached America 100,000 years earlier than thought.”Most scientists
This is a “more definitely suctorial mouth with horny cuticular teeth,” according to Francis Maitland Balfour, a British biologist with a particularly distinguished name… Read the rest “Science Art: Mouth of Petromyzon Marinus with its Horny Teeth,”
Science Daily listens close to baby humpback whales whispering to their mothers:
… Read the rest “Whispering baby whales.”Ecologists from Denmark and Australia used temporary tags on humpback mothers and their calves in Exmouth
This is a little “inside baseball,” but I’m as much thrilled by Open Culture‘s description of this archive as I am by the existence of the archive itself. It does… Read the rest “NASA releases 140,000 images, videos, and sounds.”
This is Jupiter’s watery (well, icy) moon Europa, as pieced together in realistic color from a bunch of photos taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s.… Read the rest “Science Art: PIA19048 realistic color Europa mosaic (from the Galileo mission).”
Nature is gearing up for small engines going… well, pretty fast for their size. Because these chemists are racing single-molecule nanocars:
… Read the rest “A teeny, tiny NASCAR.”Six teams from three continents are
New York Times announces how one of America’s wealthiest computer scientists makes it possible to track where your tax money *really*, really goes:
… Read the rest “Microsoft’s Ballmer sics big data on government spending.”In an age of fake news and questions
This is a diagram of how Mars appeared in the sky, as observed by Johannes Kepler (and his boss, Tycho Brahe). The question Kepler ultimately answered was why did a planet… Read the rest “Science Art: “De Motib. Stellae Martis” from Astronomia Nova aitiologetos, by Johannes Kepler, 1609.”
Science News investigates the forces at play when your shoes come untied:
… Read the rest “Why do shoelaces come untied? Physics.”Mechanical engineer Oliver O’Reilly of the University of California, Berkeley was familiar with the infuriating
NPR covers an unexpected discovery about an auto-immune condition believed to be genetic – celiac disease. You need to have the right (or the wrong) genes to come down with the gluten… Read the rest “Celiac disease – the problem with gluten – might be triggered by a virus.”
Denmark’s The Local looks at the mummified remains of a woman who was anything but local, new research has found. One of the iconic ancestors of Denmark came there from somewhere far… Read the rest “Bronze-Age Dane was an ancient immigrant.”
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