We really did walk with unicorns.
PhysOrg explains that they were really Elasmotheriums – 3.5-ton primordial rhinos known as “Siberian unicorns” – but they really did survive into the era of […]
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Science Art: Atom Nucleon
“Atom” used to be the indivisible unit of matter, the thing smaller than which it was impossible to go. Now we know there are things […]
Bots and fake news: how it works
Science News is a leetle late to the game, but that’s the new reality. Researchers have completed some early studies on how fake news gets […]
In observance of Thanksgiving week: How do wombats poop cubes?
Answering the unspoken question, yes, we are a little feverish here in the guild headquarters. Science News answers the explicit question, however. By having very […]
Science Art: Zanclus cornatus and Acanthurus nigra, by Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta.
Click to embiggen Two fish from one of the first collections of X-ray photographs, published in Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen, 1896. From […]
Solar flares set off underwater mines in the Vietnam war – and we just figured it out.
Popular Science can reveal the disturbing solution to a minor military mystery with the story of how space weather made a bunch of military mines […]
Neanderthals were pretty chill.
Nature explodes the myth of brutal, violent cavemen with a skull study that shows they were about as mellow as modern humans: Writing in Nature, […]
Giant impact crater discovered under Greenland’s ice.
Science Daily invites us to the opening chapter of an alien invasion story, as international researchers explain how they just found a 31-kilometer-wide crater from […]
Invisible mice reveal how bodies are put together – at remarkably tiny levels.
Nature takes a closer look the way different physical systems connection – the way the brain, the muscles, the blood vessels relate to one another […]
We’re getting bigger: “It will be harder to feed 9 billion people in 2050 than it would be today.”
Gemini Research News has some bad news for the Earth’s growing population. It turns out that our farms will face some trouble because we’re going […]
Science Art: Cymatics, by Nigel Stanford
I’m not really that much of an electronica fan – at least not danceable electronic music – but this video is kind of awesome. I […]
HPV came from Neanderthal nookie.
Discover traces the ancestry of a persistent sexually transmitted disease, and finds that the human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer probably came from modern […]
The world’s oldest animal picture is on a cave wall in Borneo.
The Indonesian jungle does not seem like the best environment to preserve works of art, but, as The New York Times reports, for more than […]
We were consuming chocolate 5,300 years ago.
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: Until […]
Science Art: Lidar-derived digital surface and elevation models of a stream channel, by the USGS
Click to embiggen This is the earth under a stream inside a forest in Iowa, with all the trees and the water digitally removed. Or […]