NPR has more on how potters inadvertently preserved a record of Earth’s magnetic field 3,000 years ago:
… Read the rest “Ancient pottery reveals the past of Earth’s magnetic field.”About 3,000 years ago, a potter near Jerusalem made a big jar. It was meant to
This is the science vessel Albatross, a steamship custom-built for the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, what’s now the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service. “The… Read the rest “Science Art: The Albatross Dredging, 1883.”
Science Daily peeks into the deep, deep history of the “Great Oxidation Event,” analyzing a very old sample of some of the first oxygen to appear on Earth:
… Read the rest “Our first breath of air, analyzed 2.3 billion years later.”Christopher Junium,
Popular Science shows us how to make a cheap paper microscope that really works:
… Read the rest “This origami microscope costs less than a dollar – and you can magnify stuff by 2,000 times.”In the Foldscope, invented by Stanford University engineers, creased paper creates a scaffold, which holds
New Scientist puts the seat backs in the full upright position with the news that there are weird “radioactive zones” in the sky our planes fly through all the time:
… Read the rest “Radiation clouds may sicken jet travelers.”We have long
Might look pretty in a dish, but you don’t want to find this on your crops – it’s bad news.
This image, taken by Scott Bauer, is from the USDA Agricultural… Read the rest “Science Art: Cultures of a destructive mold called Phomopsis, by USDA-ARS”
Sure, it might be the salty food, but Science Daily says, based on work by the American Physiological Society, that the microbes in your intestines can have a stronger effect on hypertension… Read the rest “Bad gut bacteria can cause high blood pressure.”
Nature pores over the blueprints drawn up using today’s technology… and a $126 million budget… for the next big step in computing power:
… Read the rest “We can build a quantum computer today. But it’ll be as big as a stadium.”“Yes it will be big, yes it will
BBC has an up-close look at the tiny, primitive face of the great-great-great-great-etc. grandaddy of anything with a backbone:
… Read the rest “All mouth, no butt: Scientists find the ancestor of all vertebrates (like us).”They say that fossilised traces of the 540-million-year-old
This is a map of something invisible – ocean currents – made indirectly – by releasing messages in bottles and seeing where they land, based on who sent… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 172 – Results of Dr. Fulton’s Drift-Bottle Experiments in the North Sea, 1912.”
CPH Post Online reveals the discovery, by Moesgaard Museum scientists, of 3,500-year-old treasure in Kuwait:
… Read the rest “Engraved Gems of Ancient Kuwait”Danish archaeologists have been working on the tiny island of Failaka off
New Scientist introduces us to a fearsome creature (thankfully no longer among us) that ruled the prehistoric Romanian skies like a flying tyrannosaur:
… Read the rest “In the days of Transylvania’s flying T. rexes….”New fossils now indicate some giant
That’s in the “radio silence” sense, not in the sense of “shuttering their windows” or “turning bleak.” Not yet, anyway. Buzzfeed reported… Read the rest “Government research bodies are going dark.”
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SOURCE:Germany to probe Nazi-era medical science,” Science, 5 Jan 2017, as used in the post “Scientists start identifying… Read the rest “SONG: By Numbers”
Technology Review reports on a veritable horde of fake accounts – a network of 350,000 users – that have been ready to parrot messages en masse since 2013… from some interesting… Read the rest “MASSIVE botnet army discovered on Twitter… just… sitting there.”
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