Guardian reports on multiple medieval Cambodian cities that had been forgotten – evidence of an entire lost empire just discovered via LIDAR scans:
… Read the rest “Lasers find lost Cambodian empire”The Australian archaeologist
A map of the planet Mars by astronomer Richard A. Proctor. The names we use for features on Mars nowadays come from Giovanni Schiaparelli – like what we call “Syrtis Major Planum,”… Read the rest “Science Art: An early map of the planet Mars, by Richard A. Proctor, 1867.”
Sci-News turns an ear to the heavens to learn about the oldest stars in the Milky Way – by listening to their acoustic oscillations:
… Read the rest “Listening to the music of the oldest stars.”The team, led by Dr. Andrea Miglio from the University
Ha’aretz reports on the oldest oracle to Apollo found in Athens – a place where a sacred seer drew water from a well to divine the future:
… Read the rest “Apollo’s Hydromancer”The Athenians built wells along the course
Science Daily reports on a not-terrifying-at-all accidental discovery, that electric eels are perfectly capable of jumping out of the water to deliver a lethal dose of electricity when… Read the rest “Leaping Electric Eels!”
Here’s astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. as snapped by mission commander L. Gordon Cooper Jr., the “Gordo” from The Right Stuff, if you remember him. This… Read the rest “Science Art: Inside the Spacecraft During Gemini V Flight, by L. Gordon Cooper/NASA”
Their tattoos, specifically, according to this piece in Motherboard. The FBI teamed up with the National Institute for Standards and Technology to create a database for software that… Read the rest “Prisoners used in *data-harvesting* experiment.”
Science Daily reveals a neurological truth, found during a first-of-its-kind study of teens’ brains while engaging in social media – that getting Likes on Facebook or Instagram… Read the rest “Likes like chocolate. Likes like the jackpot. It’s true.”
PopSci reports on the upper-arm implant that oozes buprenorphine, a drug that suppresses withdrawal symptoms and cuts the craving for opioid addicts:
… Read the rest “FDA approves anti-addiction implant”Called Probuphine, the implant
One of the more interesting trends in scientific illustration lately – and I do think that it’s exactly the same kind of thing that inspired amateur illustrators… Read the rest “Science Art: Minecraft Colosseum replica (Amphitheatrum Flavium)”
Nature looks at some strange things Neanderthals built for… reasons… inside their cave homes:
… Read the rest “Puzzling out Neanderthal architecture.”Neanderthals built one of the world’s oldest constructions — 176,000-year-old
Washington Post has us – well, not exactly preparing for the end of the world, but definitely on our guard. When polar bears start mating with grizzlies, it’s definitely a sign… Read the rest “Polar bears and grizzlies are making global-warming babies.”
Our first ticket off this rock.
Saturn F-1 Engine is tested at the Marshall Center in 1964.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC
Washington Post reports on a swallowable, unfolding robot for retrieving the little batteries that little kids swallow:
… Read the rest “You swallow this pork origami robot, see… no, really.”Across the United States, a child swallows a battery once every
Nature goes EXXXTREEEEME!!! in the search for evidence of water on Mars. And boy did they find evidence. Seems like a couple billion years ago, meteorite impacts unleashed cosmic-sized… Read the rest “Water on Mars? TSUNAMIS ON MARS!”
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