A new explanation for the missing billion years in Earth’s geologic record.
IFL Science has a new explanation of “The Great Unconformity,” a worldwide phenomenon in which about a billion years of rock deposits are just missing, […]
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School bus-sized spinosaur discovered
Last month, BBC’s Science Focus reported on an “astonishingly” large dinosaur discovered in the Sahara Desert of Niger — a bus-sized behemoth with a crescent-shaped […]
Science Art: Modern Electrical Construction, Fig. 58, 1905
This is a switch for “constant current” electricity to go into a building, a “A modern commercial form of this switch,” is what the book […]
Better long-term memory … for females, at least.
Nature reports on research that gave mice acetate, a common byproduct of digesting alcohol, glucose, or fiber… and found that it improved long-term memory — […]
Science Art: Eye orbit anatomy anterior 2, by Patrick Lynch.
Unblinking, the lidless eye gazes out from its skull, unseeing. I found this anatomical image while browsing through the “Featured Images” collection on Wikimedia Commons. […]
Honey bees navigate VERY precisely.
PhysOrg considers the flight paths of honeybees in three dimensions and finds that the insects are even more precise than anyone imagined: A team from […]
A drill older than the pharoahs
PhysOrg reports on a very old tool – does it count as a power tool? At any rate, it was made in Egypt thousands of […]
Science Art: Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, by H. Zell.
This is an image from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, a German natural history museum, where they have a skeleton of a stegosaurus relative unearthed […]
Black South African digger becomes paleontology star
NPR shared the story of Lazarus Kgasi, who started as a laborer but fell in love with the science — and is now helping shape […]
Science Art: Cathode Ray Tubes, 1974
An image from an ad from the Jan/Feb 1974 issue of the Journal for the Society for Informational Display. The edition is pretty light on […]
Snakes can fast because they got rid of a hormone.
Science reports on a discovery researchers are putting up there with GLP-1 anti-obesity drugs. In this case, snakes can survive long, and foodless, periods of […]
Teenage cigarettes lead to grown-up opioid trouble.
A University of Pennsylvania grad researcher has found that teenagers who smoke tobacco are at higher risk for addiction to morphine, heroin, or fentanyl, because […]
Science Art: Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist’s Concept, 2012
Is it strange how much this resembles a 1950s comic-book cover about dashing flying saucer pilots? And we made it real, and we sent it […]
Age-blocking injection rebuilds knee cartilage.
Sci Tech Daily investigates a new treatment for arthritis that can not just stop joint damage but actually reverse it by blocking chemicals associated with […]
Long life really can come down to good ancestors.
Well, good at living a long time, at least. Nature reports on a study that finds about 55 percent of the factors that grant a […]