Footprints prove people were walking around America more than 20,000 years ago.
Science presents hard evidence that humans really were in North America at the time of the last Ice Age, along with giant sloths and glyptodonts: […]
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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 […]
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 […]