From a
story in World
Science, complete with cool pictures:
Using a
new medical scanning technology, researchers have produced a detailed three-dimensional model of the face of an Egyptian man who lived nearly 3,000 years ago — without having to go through the potentially
damaging process of unwrapping his mummified corpse.
The team of Italian physicians, anthropologists and forensic [...]
How do you call something a particle if it’s gigantic? From a
Scientific American
story:
In 1996 Discover magazine ran an
April Fools’ story about giant particles called “bigons” that could be
responsible for all sorts of inexplicable phenomena. Now, in a case of life
imitating art, some physicists are proposing that the universe’s mysterious dark
matter consists of great [...]
Pasek cites recent studies that show there’s approximately one phosphorus atom for every 2.8 million hydrogen atoms in the cosmos, every 49 million hydrogen atoms in the oceans, and every 203 hydrogen atoms in bacteria. Similarly, there’s a single phosphorus atom for every 1,400 oxygen atoms in the cosmos, every 25 million oxygen atoms in [...]
One of these days somebody will write a wildly popular book that
demolishes the mental boundaries our civilization has adopted
by ignoring space as a solution to Earthly problems. Dennis Wingo’s new book has many of the
ingredients such a book would need. Unfortunately, as the name
suggests, the book was rushed into print with too many glaring
errors to [...]