We might have just detected dark matter.
Science Daily goes deep beneath an Italian mountain range, where the XENON1T experiment got some strange results … that might give us humans our first […]
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Science Art: Triops longicaudatus, by Steve Jurvetson, 2005
This is a triops, a three-eyed critter something like a trilobite (though it’s not actually one of those at all). From the Wikimedia Commons description: […]
Robots are waiting tables in Texas.
CNN Business reveals that robots, having basically taken over manufacturing jobs, are now moving into service industry positions, replacing wait staff at a Latin restaurant […]
Strange, ancient Scottish balls.
LiveScience (via ScienceAlert) is puzzling over two polished stone spheres found in a Neolithic site on the isle of Sanday in the Orkneys. The stones […]
Drilling for magma.
Science reports on an Icelandic project going to a whole new level – they’re following the Krafla Volcano’s path and digging beyond the Earth’s crust […]
Science Art: Dlx3 deletion in osteoblast progenitors induce increased trabecular bone formation, 2015.
This is a picture of bones, the mineral density of bones, giving us a hint of their interior structures. From the NIH Image Gallery description: […]
Wooden flooring that generates electricity.
The Guardian reports on Swiss scientists who have taken ordinary wood floor planks, coated them with silicon and embedded nanocrystals, and then stepped on them […]
Made-up sounds convey meaning across cultures.
Scientific American looks at babble and finds it comprehensible, thanks to language researchers who have learned that nonsense sounds imply the same concepts to listeners […]
Mummified with a golden tongue, in order to speak sweetly in death.
Smithsonian Magazine reveal the probable history of a mummy found in the Egyptian temple of Taposiris Magna who was preserved with a tongue-shaped amulet made […]
Science Art: Exocomets Around Beta Pictoris – Artist View, 2013.
This is a painting for NASA of the formation of a distant solar system, used to illustrate the article “Formation of the Solar System: Birth […]
“Enteral ventilation” is a fancy way of saying “breathing through your butt.” Which we can maybe do.
Massive Science is celebrating nether regions this September, and kicked off their observances with a report on actual research at Tokyo Medical and Dental University […]
Wave power is surging ahead.
Scientific American reports on new advances made by a team of Portuguese researchers toward getting electricity from the endless motion of the ocean: Waves alone […]
Science Art: Total Eclipse of the Sun (from a painting by Kranz), 1897
This is the frontispiece to A New Astronomy for Beginners, by David P. Todd, an 1897 textbook on the latest astronomical breakthroughs. The passage on […]
The world’s largest shipping firm is putting $1.4 billion into sustainable engines.
Quartz reports on a major move toward a cleaner, carbon-neutral future: The ships will be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries and are due to be […]
Science Art: The Cricket Thermometer, by Cleve Hallenbeck.
From the June 1949 issue of Natural History, the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History (which is archived here) comes a handy reference […]