Incense has been key to religious and societal ceremonies for thousands of years, wafting over the offerings of kings in ancient Egypt and the aisles of St. Peter’s Basilica as a holy and worship-inducing smoke. But researchers have found that at least ...
Big, unmanned spy planes, like the Predators flying over Iraq, have plenty of problems. For starters, they are expensive to build and operate. More important, some can be relatively easy to spot. Shrinking such planes so that they weigh less than two ...
For such a small, dainty fish, a sea horse eats like a high-powered Hoover, sucking up water through its snout, its head expanding in less than one-hundredth of a second to accommodate the influx. To probe this specialized feeding system, Dominique ...
Twins are normally either identical—the result of a single sperm fertilizing a single egg, which then splits and duplicates itself—or fraternal, developing from two separate eggs fertilized by two separate sperm. But last March, doctors reported the ...
Last May, a Siberian reindeer herder named Yuri Khudi chanced upon the world’s most intact mammoth remains, unearthed by erosion of a riverbank, and promptly turned them over to the natural history museum in the Russian town of Salekhard. The frozen ...
It’s probably the happiest root canal ever: Molecular archaeologists reported last January that they had drilled into a 10,300-year-old human tooth discovered in Alaska and extracted genetic gold. The molar, recovered from skeletal remains found in 1996 ...
If the science moves like Moore's law, get ready for bio-freakiness.10.22.2007 Some researchers tinker with real blood; some create from scratch.08.06.2007 Artificial livers can be grown in a petri dish03.20.2007 Bringing home the bacon may become a ...
Twenty-five years ago, when the world-spanning Internet was all but a gleam in the Defense Department’s eye (and the world-spamming Internet was even further off in the future), a small band of computer scientists were stymied over how to express their ...
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