The Jewish nation of Israel and the Muslim nation of Jordan are duking it out, BBC News reports, over the world’s oldest Christian library:
… Read the rest “Miniature Holy War (over huge holy library)”A group of 70 or so “books”,
Science Daily takes us back to an age undreamed of, when shining cities gleamed like jewels beneath the stars. Hither came archaeologists, seeking what killed this Iron Age warrior…… Read the rest “When life was more easily lost”
SciAm looks this way and that at the way our minds work, trying to find out which way the future lies:
… Read the rest “Tomorrow is over THERE.”The Pompuraawan, a remote tribe in Australia, do not have terms for spatial relationships
Boa viperina, as seen in George Shaw’s General zoology, or systematic natural history. You can browse through the book at archive.org… if you’ve got a few hours to spend.… Read the rest “Science Art: Viperine Boa, James Francis Stephens, 1802.”
DiscoveryNews digs up evidence of American slaves holding religious rituals and conducting scientific research in the masters’ greenhouses:
… Read the rest “Sacred greenhouses.”As they dug below a north-facing
The BBC warms up to NASA’s latest mission, which is about to get a close look at the planet Mercury:
… Read the rest “To Mercury.”Messenger has had to use six planetary flybys – one of Earth, two of Venus and
Little version of a big rocket.
Photo from NasaImages.org:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Saturn I Booster Test”A Saturn I booster model is set up for testing in NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center’s 8’x6′
Scientific American refutes the mommy-brain myth with new research that shows new moms’ brains actually get bigger:
… Read the rest “Mama’s got a big brain.”Structural changes in animal brains, says National Institutes
National Geographic Expeditions takes an ominous look at aliens in Antarctica:
… Read the rest “Blood Falls.”A blood-red waterfall pouring out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys is actually
Nature has a great look at what’s going on inside the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged by the tsunami:
… Read the rest “Inside Fukushima”So, without emergency cooling, the temperature at the core of both reactors
Nature takes a second look at the best kind of respiratory infections – the bacteria that fight off the flu:
… Read the rest “Healthy germs.”A research team led by Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University
I’ve never inspired 50,000 people to protest anything. I’ve never really missed it… until Wired mentioned just how many people Bill Gates pissed off by getting something… Read the rest “Bill Gates takes on the autism vaccine army.”
At one point in history, one of the world’s largest cities was in America – and it wasn’t New York or Los Angeles. It was the heart of an area on the banks of the Ohio River … Read the rest “Science Art: The Kincaid Site in Massac County, Illinois, by Herbert Roe, 2004”
…goes to PopSci for yesterday’s tragically incorrect Biggest Full Moon in 19 Years Almost Certainly Won’t Cause a Huge Natural Disaster:
… Read the rest “This week’s Worst Headline award.”Past supermoons have coincided
Science Daily actively engages readers with research that shows that a lack of fact-checking in articles undermines readers’ concept of truth:
… Read the rest “Passively untrue?”The study found that people are more
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