A red snowman, past the orbit of Pluto
Nature shares the wonder of Arrakoth, the object once known as 2014 MU69, in the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto, the most distant world we’ve studied […]
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New “reaper of death” tyrannosaur discovered in Canada.
National Geographic revels in the grisly remains of a killer found in a museum cabinet – bones that turned out to belong to a prehistoric […]
A particle called a “kaon” might just rewrite the rules of subatomic physics.
Sounds almost too Hollywood to be true, but Science News is covering some unexpected findings from a Japanese particle accelerator, where researchers say chaotic little […]
Science Art: Optical projection tomography: OPT analysis of Smoc1 expression in wild-type E9.5 mouse embryo, 2011
Click for rotating ogv video This is a video of a mouse, not yet born, that already has some issues; specifically “Waardenburg-Anophthalmia Syndrome.” It’s originally […]
A “cell-synthesized yarn” can stitch you up with your own skin cells.
Science Alert unravels the findings of a group at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Bordeaux, who have spun skin cells […]
An artist created a fake traffic jam with a wagonload of phones.
The Guardian looks at the way Google Maps is changing the way we look at maps, and the way one artist is hacking Google Maps […]
Seals talk with applause. OK, clapping. They clap to each other.
Science Daily leads a round of applause for researchers who’ve found that seals clap to each other underwater: “The discovery of ‘clapping seals’ might not […]
Science Art: Plate 7: Sweetbread, Horn of Plenty, Puffball, Chanterelle, from Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, 1894.
Click to embiggen vastly. Mushrooms you can trust. I think. From the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Flickr collection “Edible and poisonous mushrooms: what to eat and […]
Ancient African genome offers migration clues for the first humans.
Nature shares DNA research on the remains of four children in what is now Cameroon, revealing clues about how they lived and where they came […]
How do you say “dinosaur” in Zulu?
BBC Future muses over the ways in which language can limit scientific research – when you don’t have the words for a concept: For Zulu-speaking […]
Science Art: Ophir Chasma, ESP_062483_1755, by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory HiRise.
Click to embiggen vastly This is half of a stereoscopic image of the surface of Mars. The other half is
Ozone-eating chemicals (remember fluorocarbons?) are warming the Arctic.
Nature reports on an old environmental menace. Climate simulations, they say, show that the mass emission of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) beginning in the 1950s could be […]
We’re cooler than we used to be. Literally – human body temperatures have dropped.
The Wall Street Journal reports that since the average human body temperature of 98.7 degrees F was first established, the average human has gotten taller, […]
Science Art: Quasi-Poloidal Stellarator (QPS), 2007
Click to embiggen This is a fusion reactor that was never built, a small power plant that takes the principles of a tokamak (use super-heated […]
Living concrete photosynthesizes, reproduces itself – thanks to gelatin..
The New York Times covers a building material that could be a boon to the planet, a bacteria-enriched concrete that cleans the air and grows […]