Science writer Leonard David is concerned. It seems like Mars Rover Curiosity is having some unusual wear on it wheels… erosion and corrosion that seems to be caused by liquid water… Read the rest “In the Martian morning, there’s dew… (and it’s eating away our rover’s wheels)”
from Lectures on Ventilation (1869) by Lewis W. Leeds, via Public Domain Review.
The invisible made visible.
Well, sort of. Popular Archaeology traces the efforts now underway to rebuild the Jamestown church where Pocahontas was married:
… Read the rest “Pocahontas was married here. In this church.”About five years after the footprint of the first Jamestown
Science Daily tries to describe a “platypus dinosaur” that combines the oddest bits of Brontosaurus and T. rex:
… Read the rest “A plant-eating T. rex… with a long neck.”Chilesaurus diegosuarezi is named after the country where
Nature reports on a strikingly beautiful – and utterly destructive – invasive critter that’s swept across warm waters from Ft. Lauderdale to Venezuela:
… Read the rest “Lionfish have reached Brazil.”Lionfish
These are two ancient horns, made of gold and engraved (or embossed) with runes and pictures that seem to tell a story. Or maybe just look cool.
Also, they are horns that it seems like no one … Read the rest “Science Art: The Golden Horns of Gallehus.”
Sometimes, as South China Morning Post demonstrates, you just can’t dig a hole in some parts of China without making some kind of remarkable dinosaur discovery:
… Read the rest “Dinosaur eggs in the big city.”The fossils were
Nature has more on the research into the aformentioned artificial earthquakes:
… Read the rest “The phrase “human-induced seismic hazards” means “man-made earthquakes.” Thanks to oil mining…”It’s the first thing that geologist Todd Halihan asks on a sunny spring afternoon at Oklahoma State University
Science Daily goes deeper into the singular (and kinda sexy) oddness of the vampire squid:
… Read the rest “Vampire squid stranger, even, than previously thought.”At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don’t swim so much as float, and they get by
This is a handmade map from the construction of the Panama Canal, one of history’s greatest feats of engineering. Culebra Cut is where the project experienced massive… Read the rest “Science Art: Las Cascadas Slide (Section 6) from AB Nichols Notebook Vol. 38, 1910”
Science Daily digs into new evidence that early humans enjoyed an occasional bite of early human:
… Read the rest “Our cannibal roots.”Gough’s Cave in Somerset was thought to have given up all its secrets when excavations
BBC is reporting that University of Aberdeen researchers have got all het up over the thought that there are traces of all kinds of pre-Celtic settlements in the rocks along the coast:
… Read the rest “Pictish fort found off Aberdeen”Pictish
The Independent reports on Duke University researchers who think they’ve figured out how Alzheimer’s happens… and how to stop it:
… Read the rest “New Alzheimer’s hope?”Researchers at Duke announced that
Thanks to Science Daily, I’ll never think of my beard the same way again. They’ve got new insight into the evolution of humankind’s most uniquely human feature –… Read the rest “The thing that really sets human beings apart: our chins.”
In which NASA tests a Space Shuttle engine in Mississippi, on a cool and humid day.
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