Another gorgeous old book illustration from Old Book Illustrations, this one from a Belgian natural history text. It’s a beached sperm whale, Physalus cylindricus… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Physale Cylindrique, Histoire naturelle de Lacépède, 1876.”
Covered this as a concept before here, but PhysOrg is reporting that a town in France is making step-powered pavement a reality:
… Read the rest “Making pavement pay.”Authorities in Toulouse in the south-west of France are considering
Discovery News makes me curious, again, about the future of American space travel:
… Read the rest “Obama brings back Orion capsule.”President Obama is reviving the capsule component of the scuttled Constellation program and setting
The Vancouver Sun unearths the story of a possible Assyrian source for the Hebrew covenant:
… Read the rest “An older testament.”The tablet, dating to about 670 BC, is a treaty between the powerful Assyrian king and his weaker
New Scientist hypes a pretty cool discovery about gene-swapping bacteria changing sushi-eaters’ digestion:
… Read the rest “Sushi superpowers.”Genes regularly shuttle between different bacteria, offering each
Moses Harris was an entomologist in Britain at about the time the American colonies started that unpleasantness with tea stamps and flintlock rifles.
As well as studying… Read the rest “Science Art: Colour Wheel by Moses Harris, c.1770”
BBC shares the cute story of the discovery of what could be our greatest grandparents, the oldest members of the genus Homo:
… Read the rest ““WHAT did you just pick up?””The site was found by the team thanks to the “virtual globe”
Explorers in the Philippines have, New Scientist reports, just discovered a cousin of the fearsome Komodo dragon that eats fruit:
… Read the rest “Friendlier dragons.”Measuring 2 metres long, Varanus bitatawa is covered
Science Daily gets primitive with research into how the oldest parts of our brains help us learn:
… Read the rest “Lizard-brain learning.”Many of the mundane skills that we apply every day, such as buttoning up a shirt or playing
No, really. The IT Wire covers a new Pediatrics study that breastfeeding could save 911 lives and billions of dollars annually:
… Read the rest “Breasts save lives. And money.”…[T]he paper in the journal Pediatrics states, “The
Telegraph.co.uk reports on a new theory that hail from a comet’s tail caused a 1,000-year freeze:
… Read the rest “Comets made us icy.”Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would have rained down on Earth, each
I found this on the wonderful Old Book Illustrations blog. It’s from Les merveilles de l’industrie (The wonders of industry), an 1871 celebration of technological… Read the rest “Science Art: Cist of a Child Found at the Gates of Athens, by P. Broux”
BBC reports on a new invention – a cube that releases a sheet of plastic to clean up space junk:
… Read the rest “Tiny cube tidies orbit.”Residual air molecules still present in the spacecraft’s low-Earth orbit will
Medical News Today makes me feel uncomfortable… oh, no, wait, it’s a GOOD thing!… about the way magnets can alter our moral judgement:
… Read the rest “Magnets and morality”Ten years ago [Dr Rebecca Saxe,
Discovery News takes another look at Iron Age Scotland and finds something more than pretty pictures:
… Read the rest “So that’s what written Pict looks like….”The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, carved stones that
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