DNA is rewriting humans’ family tree… again.
PhysOrg looks back at our misunderstood ancestors with a University of Utah team that has revealed more about how – and when – Denisovans and […]
Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreJordan: Techno-utopia.
Nature reports on Jordan’s new push to make itself into the future scientific powerhouse of the Middle East: Jordan’s leaders see science, engineering and technology […]
Science Art: Mummy Portrait of a Woman (73.AP.91), attributed to Malibu Painter.
Click to embiggen The Malibu Painter, who probably painted this, was not active in California’s surf culture, but in Egypt around the time the first […]
Good picture of dark matter.
Science Daily gets us a better look than ever before at how much dark matter is out there, where it is, and what it’s doing […]
We’ve edited the genes of human embryos now.
Nature has the story of an international team led by Portland-based reproductive biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov, who used CRISPR gene-editing to erase a potentially fatal heart […]
Bacteria could rid the South Pacific of mosquitoes within a decade.
Nature has more on a Tahitian lab’s plan to use Wolbachia bacteria to wipe out mosquitoes: The mosquito problem could be solved in the Society […]
Science Art: 1. Papilio Memnon? 2. Pap. Aeneas
Click to embiggen Butterflies of South Asia and Central and South America. Pretty butterflies. Or, as James Duncan and Sir William Jardine called them, Foreign […]
Babies’ brain cells add years to mice’s lives.
Nature is absolutely not trying to cause any panic with news that injecting baby brain cells into older mice keep them younger and healthier longer: […]
Does your tunnel come after the white light?
Science Daily investigates the process of dying – or rather, Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). Although people report very similar NDEs across cultures – looking down at […]
50 years ago, Surtsey Island came into being. Now, we’re drilling to find out how.
Nature reports on scientists with big drills in Iceland, trying to find out how it was that Surtsey Island came rising up from the ocean […]
SONG: I Had A Fever
SONG: “I Had A Fever”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Can Microbes Encourage Altruism?,” Scientific American, 17 Jul 2017, as used in the post “Does kindness come from […]
Amateurs find a nearby star by looking through pro astronomers’ old data.
There’s a thing in Australia called “noodling,” where hobbyists look through opal mine spoil piles and find overlooked bits of precious stones. Syfy Wire has […]
Roomba inventor creates an anti-invasive-fish robot.
Fast Company unveils the new robots unleashed by Colin Angle, the man behind the Roomba, after he was challenged by a dive instructor in Bermuda. […]
You could (probably) outrun a T. rex.
Newsweek, reporting on a study in PeerJ, demonstrates how one of the scariest dinosaurs of all was really kinda slow and clumsy: In a study […]
Does kindness come from germs? Are the better angels of our nature really a contagious infection?
Scientific American takes a cold, calculating look at research into the origins of our behavior. Just like parasites can spur suicidal behavior in certain hosts […]