Monthly Archive: April 2019
By Ben Coxworth – – The CycleWing is presently on Kickstarter. Although there’s nothing like cycling with a good tailwind, your bike and your body are only capable of catching a limited amount of that wind. The CycleWing was designed to help, acting …
By Michael Irving – – The bones of Homo luzonensis were discovered in Callao Cave, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. (Credit: Callao Cave Archaeology Project). A new species of human has been discovered in a cave in the Philippines. Named …
Anthony Wood – – The first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87. (Credit: EHT Collaboration). Astronomers have released what could be the historic first images of a supermassive black hole’s event horizon. The …
By Nick Lavars – –Methane’s super radiation-trapping abilities make it around 25 to 30 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. (Credit: MikhailPopov / Depositphotos). Though it is not the most abundant greenhouse gas, methane is certainly the most potent when …
By Michael Irving – An artist’s rendition of the new species, named Sollasina cthulhu after H.P. Lovecraft’s mythical beast. (Credit: Elissa Martin, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History). The fossilized remains of Cthulhu have been discovered in England – but it’s probably …
By Rich Haridy – – Without offering a causal conclusion, a new study suggests a strong observational association between air pollution and adolescent psychotic experiences. (Credit: elwynn/Depositphotos). A fascinating and robust new study has for the first time examined the association between teenage psychotic experiences …
By Nick Lavars – – New research has thrown further weight behind the theory that oral hygiene may be linked to Alzheimer’s. (Credit: AndrewLozovyi/Depositphotos). How Alzheimer’s functions and why it develops is still a source of huge mystery, but by following its biochemical …
By Michael Irving – – The newly-discovered bacteria strain Streptomyces sp. myrophorea, which has been found to produce potent antibiotics. (Credit: G. Quinn, Swansea University). For the past century or so, we’ve been able to kill bacteria with relative ease, thanks to antibiotics. But …
By Melissa Sartore – – In contrast to much of what Hollywood has constructed, the real cowboy lifestyle was far less glamorous and happy than you may think. Of course, there were some smiling faces among 19th century cowboys, but the gunslinging frontier …
By David Szondy – – The Sun’s magnetic field controls many phenomena, such as this solar flare seen by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. (Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA). A new study by Queen’s University Belfast and Aberystwyth University indicates that the Sun’s magnetic field is 10 times …
