Enlarge / The “bearded hipster dad, ” as documented by Getty Images, is a particularly unique creature in the larger animal kingdom. (Well, technically, all human dads are. ) (credit: Jessie Casson / Getty Images) Lee Gettler is hard to get on the phone, for the particular very ordinary reason that he’s busy caring for […]
Ancient Rome’s emperors did some pretty bizarre stuff—bursting into uncontrollable fits of laughter, appointing a horse as a priest, dressing in animal skins and attacking people… the list goes on. Why did they act this way? Possibly… lead poisoning. There are any number of factors that contribute to the demise of an entire civilization, like […]
Enlarge / A visitor looks at displayed artifacts at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC) during its official reopening a day after the Pharaohs’ Golden Parade ceremony, a procession held to transport the mummified bodies of 22 ancient Egyptian kings and queens from the Egyptian Museum to their new resting place at the NMEC. […]
Enlarge (credit: Cavan Images / Getty Images) Summer has arrived, and it’s time to fire up the backyard grill. Though many of us are trying to eat less beef for environmental reasons, it’s hard to resist indulging in an occasional steak—and you’ll want to make the most of the experience. So, what’s the best way […]
Enlarge / The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right). (credit: Ni et al. 2021) The reported discovery of a new hominin species from China created a lot of buzz last week. Its discoverers—paleoanthropologists Xijun Ni, Qiang Ji, Chris Stringer, and their colleagues—say that a skull discovered near Harbin, in northeast China, has a […]
Enlarge (credit: C.J. Burton / Getty Images) Remember the line from that old folk song? If living were a thing that money could buy You know the rich would live and the poor would die. Read 30 remaining paragraphs | Comments
People catch a ride on a construction truck as they evacuate their homes after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey. This gallery highlights scenes from around a ravaged Houston. [credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images ] When Hurricane Ike made landfall in 2008, Bill Merrell took shelter on the second floor of a historic […]
Enlarge / Photograph and schematic representation of the LEGO microscope built by scientists at Göttingen University. (credit: Bart E. Vos et al., 2021) German born scientists have built a high resolution microscope out of Lego parts and components salvaged from a mobile phone, according to a recent paper published in The Biophysicist. They found that […]
Enlarge / Burkholderia pseudomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours. Burkholderia pseudomallei is a Gram-negative aerobic bacteria, and it’s the causative agent of melioidosis. (credit: Getty | CDC/Courtesy associated with Larry Stauffer, Oregon State Public Health Laboratory ) A deadly soil bacterium common in tropical and subtropical climates has mysteriously infected three people […]
Enlarge / A Super Heavy booster rolled out of SpaceX’s production facilities in South Texas on Thursday. (credit: Elon Musk) Welcome to Edition 4.05 of the Rocket Report! We have a really big week in small launch: Virgin Orbit confirmed the viability of its LauncherOne vehicle with a second consecutive successful flight. Congratulations to the […]