Nature pushes the date of the very first hot cocoa back by a millennium, with evidence of the dawn of chocolate in 3,300 BCE:
… Read the rest “We were consuming chocolate 5,300 years ago.”Until now, the oldest archaeological evidence for cacao (Theobroma
This is the earth under a stream inside a forest in Iowa, with all the trees and the water digitally removed. Or rather, with just the earth showing – thanks to the radar-like… Read the rest “Science Art: Lidar-derived digital surface and elevation models of a stream channel, by the USGS”
Science News looks back at the shallow coastal waters of eons past, when the wading was comfortably uncrowded and the first creatures with spinal cords began to take shape:
… Read the rest “The very first vertebrates came from the beach.”Scientists have
That’s a string of creepiness there, isn’t it? Everybody knows (I hope) the way some parasitic wasps turn caterpillars into living meat lockers for their offspring. But Science… Read the rest “Parasitic wasp makes zombie cockroaches.”
Scientific American reveals how some strange research is bringing the weirdness of the subatomic world – where things can be (more or less) in two places at once – into living… Read the rest “Weird life force: Quantum-entangled bacteria.”
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A goache painting from the Wellcome Collection. A rather polite setting of research equipment with a bouquet. No idea whose, or what they were doing with it really. Other… Read the rest “Science Art: Electricity: condenser jars, an electro-static generator, and a vase with flowers, c. 1850.”
Nature speculates about the ways quantum computing will change the way the internet works, with unbreakable privacy and more:
… Read the rest “A peek at the quantum internet: secrets and superpositions”The first stages promise virtually unbreakable privacy
Chemistry World introduces us to a particularly talented NASA veteran, George Aldrich – an expert smeller whose olfactory sensitivity ensures that bad smells don’t disrupt… Read the rest “Spacecraft sniffer makes sure NASA’s missions come up roses.”
This is an old, old fellow named Polydesmus. One of the first land animals there ever was.
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… Read the rest “Science Art: Introverted Millipede (Magukbaforduló ikerszelvényesek).”Earth had been conquered
Scientific American reveals how a new look at exercise’s effects in the brain might show the way to a one-two punch against Alzheimer’s disease:
… Read the rest “Exercise might be the next Alzheimer’s therapy (or might lead to it).”Exercise has been shown to
Nature repeats a warning you’ve probably heard a few times this week. Global warming is likely to make your beer more expensive, unless we do something:
… Read the rest “Climate change will be raising beer prices. (It’s the barley.)”Many studies have explored
Ars Technica keeps it simple, smart, with a new study that shows why statistics can be the third kind of lie* – sometimes the hard way to think about a problem really is the wrong way, … Read the rest “Statistics are complicated, right? Well, thinking that is why we tend to get misled.”
This is the insignia of the 254th Combat Communications Group, a unit that’s normally part of the Texas Air National Guard, but if federalized, becomes part of the Air Force Space … Read the rest “Science Art: 254th Combat Communications Group emblem”
It’s not quite caveman versus dinosaur, but LiveScience has new research on a Neanderthal child’s bones from Poland’s Ciemna Cave that got digested by a giant bird,… Read the rest “Neanderthal kid got chomped by a giant bird”
Wired shares the latest unexpected benefit from mushroom fundi Paul Stamets, who may have found a weapon to beat back CCD, the syndrome that’s devastating bee populations. He noticed… Read the rest “Mushrooms could save the bees. Maybe.”
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