Fossil-hunters have found the remains of a creature they’re calling Melville’s Leviathan, AP reports. It’s a whale that, 12 million years ago, snacked on humpbacks… Read the rest “We’re gonna need a bigger boat. MUCH bigger.”
The BBC has a simulation of the sound of the Higgs boson.
That’s what the harmonics of the mass-bearing subatomic particle will sound like if one really does turn up at the Large Hadron… Read the rest “Song of the God Particle.”
Funny how Venice itself looks like Venetian glass from far enough away, ain’t it?
From NASA’s Landsat 7 archive.
Happy birthday, America – … Read the rest “Science Art: Venice, Italy, by Landsat 7, 2001.”
The Guardian buoys my spirits with a vision of low-pollution, lighter-than-air travel:
… Read the rest “Blimps build a better tomorrow.”The government’s former chief scientific adviser, Professor Sir David King, now director
Cold-blooded? Maybe. Warm-hearted? Definitely. Discover has the latest on how dinosaur moms used hot springs to keep the babies warm:
… Read the rest “Dinosaur incubators.”In the Cretaceous period over a hundred million years
e! Science finds something besides choosing mates that gay men’s brains do differently – recognize faces:
… Read the rest “Gay men remember faces.”“Our results suggest that both gay men and heterosexual
Science Daily spoils the myth of the peaceful forest apes that live idyllic lives with no concept of ownership. Apparently, the brutes fight long wars over land rights:
… Read the rest “Chimp War.”During a decade of
The Tallahassee Democrat demonstrates how the Deepwater Horizon disaster is affecting what we can still learn about sea life:
… Read the rest “Oysters in the spill.”ST. TERESA — Thunder clattered and purple clouds gathered
Lemurs. The monkey-like creatures found sporting with the chameleons on Madagascar, what?
Look at all of them. There are some marmosets and manikins in there as well. Like children. Little… Read the rest “Science Art: “Lemurs,” from The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, 1844.”
The Wall Street Journal dishes the dirt on the humble origins of a new pill for treating multiple sclerosis:
… Read the rest “MS drugs from Chinese herbs.”Fingolimod comes from an idea hatched a quarter-century ago by Tetsuro Fujita,
Nature gets a little rough with the sloppy White House response to the ongoing Gulf of Mexico mess:
… Read the rest “Oil research stalled.”On 15 June, BP announced that it would distribute US$25 million in fast-track funding across
Science Daily makes me eager to get out in the woods and get dirty. Mostly, just to dig around in the fallen leaves, but also because I might infect myself with bacteria that fights depression… Read the rest “Dirtier. Happier. Smarter.”
Seriously. NASA wants to take you into orbit. Or at least a likeness of you. It’s their way of celebrating the final two shuttle missions.
It’s also free. And you get a certificate.… Read the rest “Put your face in space.”
This is the Great Bear, which has led our eyes to the North Star for centuries.
Sidney Hall was an engraver best remembered for maps and atlases of our world here. … Read the rest “Science Art: Ursa Major, Sidney Hall”
Science Daily has new research that shows people sense salt differently. Genes play a role in what healthy food tastes like to supertasters:
… Read the rest “Our salts aren’t the same.”The research involved 87 carefully screened
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