Solving the mystery of a 2,000-year-old body
BBC reports on a very, very cold case that’s been solved. A body found during roadwork, extending a highway between Cambridge and Huntington, England, has […]
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Science Art: Ancient Ritual White Jade Disk of Heaven…, 1937
This is an illustration from a 1937 edition of Natural History magazine, an article called “Chinese Design.” This is a “Disk of Heaven,” or bi, […]
Japanese high schooler discovers beetle species.
The Japan Times covers a brand new (to us) prehistoric dung beetle that a high school student discovered while breaking rocks in class: During a […]
What will it mean to bring extinct animals back?
Defector, mostly a sports-and-social-commentary outlet, asks a scientific question: We’re now at a point, genetics-wise, where we’re ready to make de-extinction a real thing. But […]
Science Art: Ryan 262 Manta Ray: Program Status Report cover, 1975
This is the cover of a report on the Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical “Navy Mini-Drone (STARS),” otherwise known as the Manta Ray. It was a fiberglass […]
Probiotics to treat long covid?
I know, I know, but this is a double-blind study with around 400 hundred subjects published in The Lancet. It’s a little more technical than […]
That planet is too big.
Ars Technica reports on a bafflingly huge exoplanet spotted by the Webb Space Telescope. It’s the size of Neptune, but closely orbiting a star much […]
Science Art: Exoplanets Poster, Institute of Physics, 2023
This is a… well, it’s pretty self-explanatory, really. Unlike most of the images collected here, it’s got its own description printed right on it. These […]
Cicadas are so loud, they cause fiberoptic-cable interference.
Wired reveals a very strange insect-monitoring device called DAS, or “distributed acoustic sensing,” normally used to track vibrations made by seismic shifts and volcanic eruptions. […]
Micro-napping champions: chinstrap penguins
Yes, you read that correctly. Science News reports on an unusual distinction in the natural world. Chinstrap penguins manage to net a total of 11 […]
App-driven gig-economy nurses.
The Markup looks at what it’s like when you start hiring nurses the way you catch a ride from Uber: Gig nursing apps have become […]
Science Art: Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar.
This is not a movie prop, but a working prototype of the Avrocar, a disc-shaped flying machine that graced the skies between 1959 and 1961. […]
Faces appear as the Amazon gets low.
CNN had a report on the resurfacing of 2,000-year-old carved faces in the stony banks of a stretch of the Amazon River, which have peeked […]
Science Art: Turner +2: The Best CB Microphone in the World, 1966.
This is an ad from the April 1966 “Tools and Test Measurement Issue” of Popular Electronics, which I found on archive.org. Lovely design on this […]
AI is reading scrolls burned in Vesuvius.
The Guardian looks back at a carbonized papyrus scorched by the lava that consumed Pompeii. University of Kentucky computer scientists have been able to decipher […]