USA Today (among other outlets) celebrated the discovery of an inscription in the oldest known alphabet – a 3,700-year-old Canaanite ivory comb engraved with 17 letters spelling… Read the rest “Oldest full sentence ever found is a warning against beard lice.”
These are seashells – murexes from the deep waters off Vanuatu called Scabrotrophon inspiratum. Belgian researcher Roland Houart wrote about them (and as far as I can tell photographed… Read the rest “Science Art: Scabrotrophon Species, Roland Houart, 2003.”
Phys.org passes along research led by Dr. Katerina Johnson of Oxford and Dr. Karli Watson of UC Boulder, who found that the more social a monkey is, the healthier its gut biome is – which… Read the rest “Good friendships make a healthier gut biome (in monkeys, at least).”
MIT Technology Review takes a serious look at the ramifications of having public discourse in private hands, especially when it comes to a written record of turning points in human history.… Read the rest “Twitter’s collapse could wipe clean the historical record – of the last 16 years’ major moments, at least.”
The National Science Foundation follows researchers taking a second look at “junk” DNA – the genes that don’t seem to do anything and instead just sit in a genome… Read the rest “Butterfly wing-patterns come from ancient DNA, switched around by junk.”
This is an illustration of MAGIC telescopes capturing images of very intense gamma rays. “MAGIC” refers to the twin Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes… Read the rest “Science Art: MAGIC telescopes detected the highest-energy gamma rays from a Gamma Ray Burst…, 2019.”
Science News celebrates a potential (and fragile) recovery – that might have far-reaching implications – with observations that several species of harlequin frogs, thought… Read the rest “Something to be thankful for: Some nearly extinct species are quietly springing back.”
Science News reveals the discovery of ice flows off Greenland’s melting that had been hidden until now. Researchers say the amount of sea-level rise due to the melting ice could be… Read the rest “Greenland is melting faster than we thought, and the sea is rising in response.”
This is a likeness of the elephant seals of Baja California, Mexico, as displayed in 1933 in the newly opened Hall of Ocean Life in the American Museum. The seals were at this point already … Read the rest “Science Art: Elephant Seals of Guadaloupe Island”
The Scientist looks at two studies that indicate (not prove, but suggest) there may be a link between rare fungi and cancerous tumors:
… Read the rest “New evidence hints that fungal infections may be related to cancerous tumors.”One group, led by researchers at the Weizmann Institute
Phys.org decodes the messages left in the skin of mummies unearthed in the 1920s – ancient Egyptian women who had themselves permanently marked with signs meant to inspire a complication-free… Read the rest “Ancient Egyptian ladies’ tattoos were meant to protect them during childbirth.”
On the heels of Eli Lilly taking a stock hit (when a fake “verified” account on Twitter made it seem like the pharma giant would reverse its policies and give insulin away for … Read the rest “California will be making its own affordable insulin.”
This is part of a presentation created by physicist Gerard K. O’Neill – one of three “summer studies” he carried out in the 1970s on potential space colony designs… Read the rest “Science Art: Space Colony Interior by Rick Guidice, c. 1975.”
Phys.org reports on Princeton Engineering researchers who have found a way to turn egg whites into an aerogel that can then be used to filter lethal microplastic pollution from the oceans… Read the rest “Using egg whites to scoop up microplastics.”
Science magazine recently covered the tale archaeologists uncovered about one of the earliest known settlers of Borneo, a young hunter-gatherer who had an injured foot amputated …… Read the rest “Amputation 31,000 years ago, among the prehistoric artists of Borneo.”
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