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Interesting article in Science about DNA analysis. Excerpt:
Despite their tales of origin, most people are the mixed descendants of many migrations....

THIS! IS! SCIENCE ! :coolspecs:

Is sociopolitical egalitarianism related to bodily and facial formidability in men?
Evolution and Human Behavior...

Thirty-Three Famous Physicists Sign Angry Letter About the Origin of the Universe

Cosmologists are in the business of figuring out how and why we...

I got yer flying car right here:

If you still feel like you were somehow “promised” flying cars based on Popular Science magazine covers in the...

So what are you doing? I'm putting my telescope on the sidewalk and probably not blinding the kiddos.

Paleodictyon is a pattern, usually interpreted to be a burrow, which appears in the geologic marine record beginning in the Precambrian/Early...

Great new technology for you FOR SALE NOW.

:lmao:

Ben-Gurion U. researchers develop membranes that remove viruses from drinking water
American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Press...

The last time they did this was 2002.

The first thing I checked was if Dark Korea got any better.

Nope.

Lawrence Livermore Labs release videos of previously classified videos of bomb tests. Simultaneously horrifying and Wow how fucking cool is that.

I'll kick things off with this one. 8)

Hubble spots auroras on Uranus
Science Daily

Ever since Voyager 2 beamed home spectacular images of the planets in the 1980s, planet-lovers have...

In search for unseen dark matter, physicists turn to shadow realm

Scientists hunting unseen dark matter are looking deeper into the shadows. With...

Princess Anne comes out strongly in favour of GM, no doubt infuriating her brother.

Princess Anne has said genetically-modified crops have...

It's just two related animal studies. There may be others of which I'm not aware.

tl;dr: Some radiation may be good for you. Statistically...

The fan is a nice touch.

Vibrator users will receive $10,000 each after company tracked their sexual activity
Market Watch

These sex toy customers are happy, but not for...

NASA wind tunnel tests Lockheed Martin X-Plane concept
Space Daily

Supersonic passenger airplanes are another step closer to reality ......

When you're working from wherever

Not sure where to put this. Loved the picture:

The article is a math-allergic friendly discussion of the problems with probabilities and...

Bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants in the deepest ocean fauna

The legacy and reach of anthropogenic influence is most clearly...

NuScale’s advanced light-water reactor, are designed to be deployed as multiple-module power plants.

In paractice, each 50 MW NuScale module is...

Interesting science story, thought I'd pass it along:

A supervolcano caused the largest eruption in European history. Now it’s stirring again....

Of fractal fame. Interview shortly before his death:

Wowie Zowie

From an exposed tube in a sea cliff of a volcano near the island of Hawaii, hundreds of millions of gallons of lava have been streaming...

Association of acute toxic encephalopathy with litchi consumption in an outbreak in Muzaffarpur, India, 2014: a case-control study

Background...

It's going to become a thing. For real. Hell, there might even be wars fought over the loot.

She said, 16 Psyche is the only known object of its...

Found while browsing some artsy sites, perhaps it will interest ed:

(more pics & video at the link)

Elon Musk on Digging Big-Ass Tunnel: 'We Have No Idea What We’re Doing'

Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and...

Stone marten, which met its fate at the Large Hadron Collider, to become part of Rotterdam museum’s exhibition on ill-fated human-animal interactions...

An excellent article over at Energy Matters by Euan Mearns.

tl;dr

The myth that mixing lots of different renewables = a dispatchable, constant...

Nobody is making any new 3D TVs anymore

Even though I didn't even consider a 3D TV when I recently got a new TV, I'm still kinda sad cuz this feels...

Phages caught sending chemical messages

A virus that infects bacteria listens to messages from its relatives when deciding how to attack its...

No, Tom Cruise is still in the closet.

Not . . . that there is anything. . . .

Wasting time on Other Things and Teh y00t00bz recommended this:...

… if it works!
End of fillings in sight as scientists find Alzheimer's drug makes teeth grow back

Researchers at King's College London found that...

In August of 2014, divers discovered that artifacts from one known wreck, a well-armed merchant ship buried since it sank in the 17th century, had...

The Brilliance of a Stradivari Violin Might Rest Within Its Wood

In the violin-making world, two names reign above all others: Antonio Stradivari...

Add graphene to make it conduct electricity, and you have yet another technological revolution. 8)

Graphene with silly putty make state-of-the-art...

The North Pole is an insane 36 degrees warmer than normal as winter descends

It’s polar night there now — the sun isn’t rising in much of the...

Is sea level an indicator of global warming? Seems it should be. If global warming is a real phenomenon them you would see it in sea level. Right?...

Could There Be Life in Pluto's Ocean?
Space Daily

What great science fiction stories would be made of this if Asimov and Clarke were still...

It will not be like that. :coolspecs:

Mars ice deposit holds as much water as Lake Superior
Space Daily

Vaporware for now… But I'd like one:

Computers may be where the office grunt work gets done, but deep-thought work and conceptualization can...

:coolspecs:

Blood from human teens rejuvenates body and brains of old mice
New Scientist

:)

Anyone else here about this one? I caught it on NPR, but here's a linky ya bastids:

Fascinating.

Reported without meager comment ... for now
A new study from Germany’s Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) found that the autopilot feature of...

Space X Global Satellite Network Initiative

Once fully deployed, the SpaceX System will pass over virtually all parts of the Earth’s surface and...

There’s not much info aside from “we promise it’s coming,” but Vespa has finally revealed it’s making an electric version of its iconic scooter.

The...