A 2,000-Year-Old Brain
Archaeologists found a surprise inside the severed skull of a man who lived in Britain before the Romans came. As PhysOrg reports, it had Britain’s […]
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Herpes and Alzheimer’s
Science Daily reveals the role the plucky, pesky herpes virus plays in the dreadful progress of Alzheimer’s disease – and how a cold sore cure […]
Mutant Amish Superhearts.
Yes, maybe these simple farm folk *do* have better hearts than the rest of us. That’s what the BBC seems to be saying about new […]
Science Art: “Bacteria” The New Students Reference Work
Some organic geometry from The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry. Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user […]
Life On Ice.
Antarctica, LiveScience reveals, isn’t the wasteland it appears. In fact, it has more species than the Galapagos Islands: A team of 23 scientists from five […]
Dolphin Tools.
Science News reports on new findings that our intelligent neighbors to the sea have finally been spotted using tools: These dolphins dive to the bottom […]
I feel… different. Prettier.
RedOrbit.com has a comprehensive overview (and yes, this is a summary of an overview) of research proving male organisms around the world are becoming feminized: […]
Weight-busting Worms.
No, they don’t literally suck the fat from your waistline, but Scienceblog.com does show how roundworms are beating the battle of the bulge: A previously […]
That’s a C-sharp, right?
Biology News Net had a study not so long ago into how our brains recognize music. Researchers at University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music […]
Science Art: Explorer VII
Click to embiggen The Explorer VII satellite, carried into space aboard a Juno II rocket on October 13, 1959. It weighed 91.5 pounds, and analyzed […]
Einstein’s Fridge
Albert Einstein: atomic physicist, scientific genius, refrigerator maker? Back in the 1920s, he and his pupil Leo Szilard saw a need for a refrigerator (which […]
Island of 10,000 Creatures.
National Geographic has some great images of tiny crabs, shrimp and other colorful creatures among the 10,000 species just catalogued on Espiritu Santo, Republic of […]
Paper Memory
Physorg.com writes it down to remember, using new techniques to create paper flash drives: Martins, a scientist at the New University of Lisbon in Portugal, […]
Solar Sea Slug
New Scientist loves nudibranchs… especially when they can generate their own power from sunlight: Elysia chlorotica is a lurid green sea slug, with a gelatinous […]
Ancient High.
Dude. Cannabis researchers in China have found world’s oldest stash: CBC reports: Researchers say they have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a […]