Stone Age man not more advanced than Neanderthals.
PhysOrg repeats a theme I’ve heard a lot lately – finding yet more evidence that Homo sapiens wasn’t really a step forward for Homo neanderthalensis: […]
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Stone tools, stone lessons, stone words
Nature reports on new clues that we learned to talk by learning to cut meat: Here we present an experiment investigating the efficacy of transmission […]
They’ve grown muscle in the lab… and made it twitch.
Science Daily reports on artificial muscle that works… meaning, it could actually do work: The study was led by Nenad Bursac, associate professor of biomedical […]
Science Art: Space Shuttle, concept art from NASA’s Glenn Research Center.
A vision of futures past from NASA’s Glenn Research Center Collection, part of the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System. This was what they planned […]
Stem cell therapy puts multiple sclerosis in remission.
Healthline spells out the basics of rebooting an immune system from scratch – which means a pretty dramatic step forward in medicine: Studying 24 study […]
A whole new kind of antibiotic
Nature celebrates the discovery of a dirty new weapon in the war against antibiotic-resistant pathogens: An antibiotic with the ability to vanquish drug-resistant pathogens has […]
Cold weather really does help cold germs spread.
Science Daily finds the truth behind the old wives’ tale, that common cold viruses flourish in conditions cooler than body temperature – like a nose […]
Last tour of Mercury – wanna name a crater?
New Scientist watches the Messenger probe prepare to take a final spin around the hottest planet – with one last firing of its engines: Engineers […]
A rat bustier or a rat camisole for a little rat naughtiness.
LiveScience examines how and why rats are aroused by tiny vests: In an unusual study, researchers allowed virgin male rats to have sex with females […]
Science Art: While master @AstroTerry cuts, apprentice @AntonAstrey is at the vacuum cleaner. Apprendista Anton all’aspirapolvere, by Sam Cristoforetti.
Performing delicate procedures in space: a zero-G haircut for New Year’s. From Italian astronaut @AstroSamantha’s Twitter feed. The process starts here, if you want to […]
Why… zombies?
Scientific American‘s Michael Shermer gets at the root of why we’re so fascinated with the walking dead: Zombies, for one thing, fit into the horror […]
NASA breaks scientific boundaries… in ballooning.
Nature profiles the amazing new high-atmosphere vehicle for exploring space from Antarctica: If all continues smoothly, experts expect the flight to last for 100 days […]
The oldest harmony. (Well, polyphony.)
University of Cambridge researchers have gotten to the root of the chord. (See, that’s a music theory joke.) No, really, they’ve found was seems to […]
Science Art: Nest of the Honey-Wasp Attacked by Jaguar, 1916
Click to embiggen From Marvels of Insect Life: A Popular Account of Structure and Habit, edited by Edward Step, found in the BioDiversity Library. This […]
A new road to Mars
Popular Science charts a course to Mars that’s easier and cheaper… in a roundabout way: Spacecraft usually enter orbit around planets via Hohmann transfer, which […]