Comets made us icy.
Telegraph.co.uk reports on a new theory that hail from a comet’s tail caused a 1,000-year freeze: Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would […]
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Science Art: Cist of a Child Found at the Gates of Athens, by P. Broux
Click to embiggen I found this on the wonderful Old Book Illustrations blog. It’s from Les merveilles de l’industrie (The wonders of industry), an 1871 […]
Tiny cube tidies orbit.
BBC reports on a new invention – a cube that releases a sheet of plastic to clean up space junk: Residual air molecules still present […]
Magnets and morality
Medical News Today makes me feel uncomfortable… oh, no, wait, it’s a GOOD thing!… about the way magnets can alter our moral judgement: Ten years […]
So that’s what written Pict looks like….
Discovery News takes another look at Iron Age Scotland and finds something more than pretty pictures: The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, […]
Is Alzheimer’s a yeast infection? Are the plaques the *cure*?
The Corante blog is taking a second look at brain research that could turn Alzheimer’s thinking on its head: A recent paper in PLoS One […]
Science Art: Galileo’s Sunspots, 1612
Click to embiggen. Originally published in 1612 in published in Istoria e Dimostrazioni Intorno Alle Macchie Solari e Loro Accidenti Rome. found via Woolgathersome.
Maple syrup – now *that’s* sweet….
Science Daily reveals the health-boosting chemicals found in maple syrup: University of Rhode Island researcher Navindra Seeram, who specializes in medicinal plant research, has found […]
Men and women have different nightmares.
PhysOrg divides bad dreams between the sleeping sexes: The study, carried out by Dr Michael Schredl of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, […]
Corn syrup not so sweet.
Princeton University researchers have found the bitter truth about HFCS: The first study showed that male rats given water sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in […]
Cookbook ecology
“Trophic level” is a measure of how far up the food chain an animal is. It’s generally used in ecological studies to show how much […]
Science Art: Aghatis Dammars, Nordisk familjebok
This is Agathis dammara, the tree from which we get dammar gum, used as a varnish on paintings, a glaze on food or an ingredient […]
Quantum drum beats without beating.
Nature reports on the first object large enough to see that’s been put into the quantum state of neither moving nor not-moving: Cleland and his […]
Shrimp that should not be!
The Associated Press plunges into the icy waters of the unknown to present us with an unspeakable creature… a shrimp that should not be: Six […]
Lose a gene, gain a limb.
PhysOrg shows you how to arrange the swap: The absence of this single gene, called p21, confers a healing potential in mice long thought to […]