David was packing heat.
Discovery takes a peek inside a famous statue’s hand to find Michelangelo’s lost weapon of war: “Bulging with veins, the right hand is holding what […]
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Nemesis returns?
If you’re not up on astronomical conspiracy theory, “Nemesis” is the name for a hypothetical small star/very large planet that, one, we can’t see and, […]
Too clean, too sensitive.
Metro.co.uk brings us yet another report on the problems with cleanliness: The modern trend for using antibacterial soaps is actually harming young people by making […]
Saturn’s friendly moon.
Pack up your things! Discover reports that the Cassini Saturn probe has found an oxygen atmosphere around Rhea: Other atmospheres known to exist throughout the […]
Science Art: The Geologic Time Spiral, by Joseph Graham, William Newman, and John Stacy.
History doesn’t repeat in circles. It makes a spiral. Found via keepyourpebbles, from the US Geological Survey (at which you can read more about the […]
Squid can fly.
I am not making that up. Treehugger.com has the photographic evidence of flying squid: “From our observations it seemed like squid engaged in behaviors to […]
Science Art: Merman (Vir marinus episcopi specie), 1696
Click to embiggen I’ll just quote the Wikimedia Commons text on this one. It tells a better story than I could. A relatively benign merman […]
Hurt so good.
Yes. Well. New Scientist’s never-so-aptly-named “Short Sharp Science” blog revels in the discovery that the female orgasm is neurologically linked to pain: To get his […]
Inject stem cells into damaged brain. Wait.
That’s a rough outline of what The Telegraph says scientists are doing in what could wind up being a dramatic medical breakthrough: The study, Pilot […]
Reading names, forgetting faces.
Forget your eyes. New Scientist (have I seen them somewhere before?) says all that reading is bad for your memory: The scans firstly confirmed which […]
Sleights of Mind
This is more of a “heads up” than highlighting any particular discovery, but Medical News Today has a review of a fascinating collaboration between neuroscientists […]
Mutant mosquitoes fight “breakbone fever.”
The Miami Herald reports on a new front line in a genetic war against insect-borne disease: Researchers at Oxitec Limited, an Oxford-based company, created sterile […]
Science Art: Arsinoitherium, by Heinrich Harder
Click to embiggen slightly This big fellow is Arsinoitherium, a prehistoric swamp monster related to elephants and hyraxes. Those horns were once believed to be […]
Bubbles in the Milky Way
NASA astronomers have found the equivalent of a lost continent in space – a pair of colossal radioactive bubbles rising from the galaxy: NASA’s Fermi […]
Hawking Q&A
Time has a vox-pop interview with professional smartypants Stephen Hawking: Does it feel like a huge responsibility to have people expecting you to have all […]