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SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreThis is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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Read moreMe, I love science. New Scientist does too. So it makes us feel weird to point out that a lot of the time, it just doesn’t work:
… Read the rest “Medical science: Not all it’s cracked up to be”many recent reports have raised the alarm that a shocking
New York Times reviews a new dictionary of a really old language:
… Read the rest “Demotic dictionary, for ancient expressions.”Demotic was one of the three scripts inscribed on the Rosetta stone, along with Greek and hieroglyphs, enabling European
The Atlantic reports on a record-breaking experiment that is reaching a conclusion nearly a century after it started… when a Scottish fisherman found a message in a bottle tossed… Read the rest “Message in a bottle. From 98 years ago.”
That’s Homo heidelbergensis stopping for a quick sip of water, as imagined by Zdenek Burian.
Zdenek Burian was possibly Eastern Europe’s (and maybe the world’s) most… Read the rest “Science Art: Heidelberg Man, by Zdenek Burian.”
Time travels to the Amazon to reveal the fungi that creates the clouds:
… Read the rest “The mushrooms that make the weather.”The clouds in the Amazon, just like everywhere else, consist of water vapor clinging to tiny clumps of carbon compounds.
New Scientist may have uncovered the bones of Richard III, the king either most villainous or most misunderstood of Plantangenet:
… Read the rest “Richard loves Richard, that is, I and I….”What exactly has been found?
The body of an adult male has
Guardian reports on the growing body of evidence that Alzheimer’s disease comes from what we eat – that the senility disease might actually be caused by junk food:
… Read the rest “They call Alzheimer’s “type-3 diabetes” – because it’s caused by junk food.”About 35
Cambridge researchers have determined that an iridescent berry is the brightest thing in nature:
… Read the rest “The shiniest living thing.”The ‘brightest’ thing in nature, the Pollia condensata fruit, does not get its blue colour
Guardian takes a look underwater, and what it sees (and, more importantly, what scientists are seeing) really doesn’t look good:
… Read the rest “The reefs are collapsing.”The decline of the reefs has been rapid: in the 1970s,
This, the text tells me, is an “outside-spring indicator, by Messrs. Elliott Bros.” The spring is not exposed to high temperature, which makes it better for indicating. I’m… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 100 (Outside-Spring Indicator) from Steam-engine Theory and Practice by William Ripper, 1922”
Yep. Scientific American has more on the unmanned aircraft that NASA and the USGS is using to explore the alien landscape of northeastern California:
… Read the rest “Flying robot maps Surprise Valley”Yesterday marked the first day of the
Machines, BBC reports, are one step closer to personhood, thanks to Yale researchers inventing Nico, a robot who knows himself:
… Read the rest “The robot knows itself.”“It is a spatial reasoning task for the robot to understand
Say that five times fast. Harvard Gazette wraps its tendrils around a new way to build springs based on the coiling shoots of cucumber vines:
… Read the rest “Climbing cukes clinch kinky springs.”Harvard researchers, captivated by a strange
The Independent has a surprisingly lucid summary of a 25-year longitudinal study of cannabis users from ages 13 to 38. And they found that teen marijuana users dropped their IQs by 8 points… Read the rest “Cannabis does lower IQ. By about 8 points.”
It’s a bacterium. It preys on insects. And Scientific American makes me worry that one way or another, they’ll figure out a way to make us eat our own brains too:
… Read the rest “It makes them EAT THEIR OWN BRAINS. And even worse….”As well as passing
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