This is a hand axe made by prehistoric humans – but the image is a historical relic in its own right. It represents the first time a modern human (in this case, John Frere) was able to prove… Read the rest “Science Art: Hoxne Hand Axe, by Thomas Underwood and John Frere”
That is, if we’re counting Greenland as the New World. OK, maybe I’m stretching here – but anyway, AP has new findings that show the Vikings left some of their westernmost… Read the rest “Vikings left the New World because the walrus market went bust”
The high, whistling hiss you hear rising ever so slightly in volume in the background is the sound of white-collar jobs evaporating. Wired only begins to discuss what it means to have a bot… Read the rest “An AI is writing for Wikipedia.”
Can’t beat Science News‘ subhead for this story, which cautions us, if we want to avoid the meningitis-like symptoms, to “wash produce carefully and not eat raw snails… Read the rest “Rat lungworm disease spreads to American humans.”
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In honor of the unusually good Mars viewing available right now, here’s a year’s worth of Martian weather images.
I found this on the Planetary Society’s… Read the rest “Science Art: A Year of Mars Weather”
Science Alert tells us more about the researchers from University of Texas Medical Branch and their subjects – young pigs who had successful, non-rejected transplants of bioengineered… Read the rest “Lab-grown lungs have drawn breath in living pigs.”
Currently, my house is being overwhelmed by millipedes – but I’m not sure I’m ready to embrace the solution suggested by this Science Daily story. Seems that lemurs … Read the rest “Millipedes are medicine.”
Science reveals the strange similarities, found by archaeologist Scott Fitzpatrick of the University of Oregon, between the very modern cryptocurrency markets and the very ancient … Read the rest “The cryptocurrency of ancient Yap.”
If you want to give your old-fashioned lover your heart. Or kidney.
Ah, tradition.
Cecile Dachary does all manner of feminine arts, always with a logical (or, really, “-logical”)… Read the rest “Science Art: Anatomical Embroidery by Cecile Dachary”
Nature reports on new observations of the vast, insatiable, matter-consuming maw at the heart of our galaxy that, on the bright side, has given helped prove one little corner of one of Einstein’s… Read the rest “The Milky Way’s big black hole gives Einstein a boost.”
The ESA findings were published in Science – Italian astronomers have found evidence of a 12-mile-wide lake under the southern ice cap:
… Read the rest “There’s liquid water on Mars”ABSTRACT:
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This is an animated look at the part of human reproduction you don’t normally see on video loops on the internet (so if all you’re seeing now is words or a still picture, clicky… Read the rest “Science Art: “How to Build a Human” by hellofromthemoon.”
Science Daily covers the Carnegie Institution for Science’s discovery of 12 previously unknown moons around Jupiter, including a tiny, backward Jovian moon they’re calling… Read the rest “Jupiter has 12 more moons – including one that’s *weird*.”
Nature has the answer, as supplied by a team of British and Australian researchers. Even though rats can’t live underwater, they can do fine on an island. And, thanks to their appetite… Read the rest “How rats can kill a coral reef.”
Almost a crescent. A moon of the late 1800s.
An astronomical drawing from the French-born Harvard researcher who, as an entomologist (as well as an astronomer), unleashed the horribly … Read the rest “Science Art: Partial Eclipse of the Moon by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot”
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