Denmark’s The Local shares the excitement of discovering a 400-year-old dragon – a figurehead from a Danish ship – that has been hidden in the sea since the 1500s:
… Read the rest “Sea monster found off Sweden – and archaeologists are thrilled.”The
German researchers, as disclosed in Science Daily, have found a singularly creative language – a form of whistled Turkish that, unlike any other language on Earth, is not processed… Read the rest “Whistled language is right-brained.”
BBC reveals a dirty secret about our sooty cities – the grunge doesn’t trap air pollution – it creates it:
… Read the rest “City grime “breathes out” pollution”In rooftop experiments in Germany, the researchers tracked
The Denver Post‘s (ahem) “nerd blog” has some interesting things to say about the planet next door – which, University of Colorado researchers believe, might… Read the rest “Life on Mars, and not too long ago.”
Three names for one little fish. And those are just the beginning.
I found this one on the Scientific Illustration tumblog, which quoted Wikipedia on the doree (etc.):
… Read the rest “Science Art: Doree, Zeus, Faber by Edward Donovan”John Dory, St Pierre
Science Daily introduces a new way to recharge your battery – take this flexible, biodegradable device and power it up by touching it:
… Read the rest “Tapping the power of DNA electronics: recharge the battery by touching it.”Many people may not realize it, but the movements
Nature reports that the octopus has, for an invertebrate, a really large genome – including a long sequence of genes that regulates intelligence in “higher” animals… Read the rest “The key to octopuses’ uncanny intelligence is in their genes.”
New York Times reveals what might be the ultimate fate of the Lost Colony of Roanoke:
… Read the rest “The Lost Colony… found?”They call the spot Site X. Down a dusty road winding through soybean fields, the clearing lies between
Nature greets a new one-atom-thick material – a super-thin sheet of tin scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University are calling “stanene”:
… Read the rest “Graphene’s tin cousin”Stanene (from the Latin
Apparently, since last December at least, NASA has been creating vintage-style travel posters for exoplanets – the planets we’ve been discovering around… Read the rest “Science Art: Experience the Gravity of a Super Earth, NASA/JPL Exoplanet Travel Bureau”
Science Daily processes a University of Haifa finding about why first impressions are so important – and how *feeling* a thing helps you *know* a thing:
… Read the rest “Emotions help you remember information”Dr. Shlomo Wagner of the Sagol
Quartz opens a window on the two periods of brain development when traumatic events do the most damage:
… Read the rest “Teens and two-year-olds: The ages most vulnerable to trauma.”According to Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and senior lecturer at MIT, your “terrible
OK, I’m overstating things for dramatic effect… but another Science Daily report reveals even moderately picky eaters face health risks:
… Read the rest “Oh, and your picky eater is doomed, too.”According to the study, published
Science Daily reveals that parents are (as we suspected) getting it all wrong – they think their 10-year-olds are happier – and their 15-year-olds are unhappier – than… Read the rest “You don’t know how (un)happy your children are.”
These are ostensibly Cochin chickens, or forerunners of what we’d call Cochins today. They’re a breed with a *lot* of character, and are uniquely suited,… Read the rest “Science Art: Her Majesty’s Cochins; Imported in 1843, published 1904.”
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