More than 50 items have been recovered at the site of the ancient Greek shipwreck that yielded the famous Antikythera mechanism. Working at a depth of 180 feet (55 meters), archaeologists managed to pull up the remains of a bone flute, glassware, luxury ceramics, and a bronze armrest. Read more…
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Dozens of Cool Artifacts Recovered From the Antikythera Shipwreck
An anonymous reader writes: According to a new study, we are all surrounded by a personal “germ cloud” as unique as a fingerprint. Lead author of the study Dr James Meadow says: “We expected that we would be able to detect the human microbiome in the air around a person, but we were surprised to find that we could identify most of the occupants just by sampling their microbial cloud. Our results confirm that an occupied space is microbially distinct from an unoccupied one, and demonstrate for the first time that individuals release their own personalized microbial cloud.” The findings were published today in the journal PeerJ. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Study: People Emit a "Germ Cloud" of Bacteria As Unique As a Fingerprint
sciencehabit writes: If you’re a caterpillar, you do not want to meet a parasitic wasp. The winged insect will inject you full of eggs, which will grow inside your body, develop into larvae, and hatch from your corpse. But a new study reveals that wasps have given caterpillars something beneficial during these attacks as well: pieces of viral DNA that become part of the caterpillar genome, protecting them against an entirely different lethal virus. In essence, the wasps have turned caterpillars into genetically modified organisms. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
After a violent storm ripped through the Irish town of Collooney, locals were shocked to discover the remains of a 1, 000-year-old skeleton hanging from the roots of a fallen tree. Read more…
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Medieval Skeleton Found Dangling From the Roots of a Fallen Tree
Archaeologists working in the Sicilian Channel between Tunisia and Sicily have discovered a submerged 40-foot-long (8-meter) limestone monolith carved by Stone Age humans some 10, 000 years ago. Read more…
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An Ancient Monolith Has Been Discovered in the Mediterranean Sea
Here’s something cool to watch: the first ever Soviet science fiction movie, Aelita: Queen of Mars, directed by Yakov Protozoan from 1924. Read more…
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Watch The First Soviet Science Fiction Film, Aelita: Queen Of Mars
Investigators say evidence recovered from an explosion Saturday at the National Institute of Standards and Technology near Washington, D.C. is consistent with the production of methamphetamine. The evidence? “Pseudoephedrine, drain opener, and a recipe for methamphetamine.” Read more…
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"Recipe for Meth" Among Evidence Found in Suspected Federal Meth Lab
After nine years and over 3.26 billion miles, the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto earlier today. Assuming it survived the encounter, the probe is now drifting away from the dwarf planet as it heads deeper into the Kuiper Belt. Read more…
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New Horizons Has Made its Closest Approach to Pluto! [updating]
The primary way we share ideas today is the internet. In the 15th century, it was cartography. And now, researchers at Yale are giving us a glimpse of one of the most influential maps in history—parts of which, up until now, had been too faded and aged to read. Read more…
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A Map That May Have Led Columbus To America Is Finally Being Deciphered
No, not Star Wars . A full quarter century before he played Obi-Wan Kenobi, Alec Guinness starred in one of the purest, most science-focused science fiction films ever made. The Man in the White Suit is about scientific progress, and the law of unintended consequences, and it’s brilliant. Read more…
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Alec Guinness Stars In The Best Science Fiction Movie You’ve Never Seen