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After exhumation and reinterment with honours befitting, the mortal remains of Richard III , the last English monarch killed in combat—on...

practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking : the Art Room Plant presents multiple vignettes on author PL Tra...

Having recently pondered the convergent instances of evolution that birthed multiple iterations of the crab and crab-like , we quite enjoyed...

ped x’ing : an urban hawk takes advantage of a crosswalk signal to shield it from view as it stalks its pigeon bounty—via Clive Thompson’...

We really enjoyed this essay from Aeon Magazine contributor Cameron Allen McKean that looks below the fold of the memes and tropes to exa...

First spotted by Clive Thompson’s Linkfest back a few months ago, we were happy to be reminded of this rather incredible evolutionary ad...

higher power : traditionally anodyne, new Chinese spaceflight mission patches ( see also ) might betray some secrets  triple word score : fu...

A rare genetic mutation allows some individuals to distinguish ten-fold more colours than most humans’ range of ten million but even thos...

field of vision : the evolution of eyes branching out as on a tree of life    land-grant college : the federal-funding based model for Amer...

Not in attendance myself so I can’t exactly vouch for the veracity, but according to someone present at a virtual US Department of the In...

fork in the road : AI misapprehension of a machine translated simple yes/no survey from Spanish rendered ‘i griega’ (upsilon) as a y-junct...

Routinely created for two reasons: avoidance of legal issues for working with pure human embryonic stem cells and to assay the viability...

concrete feats : the landmark Våga Water Tower on coast Varberg, Sweden   ſpy v ſpy : a look at the world of espionage in the Middle Ages—v...

cryptobiosis : a nematode was reanimated when pulled out of the Siberia permafrost after forty-six thousand years  fresh air, town square :...

top fifty : a review of the biggest literary stories of 2024—including the Brontë sisters getting their diaeresēs  we all live in the ruins...

According to his own account, courtesy of our faithful chronicler , Claude Vorihon—now known as Raël, fortieth and final prophet and found...

Courtesy of Ms Cellania , we are afforded the opportunity to to catch up on our intrepid science presenter Ze Frank ( see previously ) wi...

Via Friend of the Blog par excellence Nag on the Lake , we are introduced to the esteemed French-Russian surgeon, Serge Voronoff ( see al...

Tragically on this day 1984 Baby Fae, the first infant recipient of a non-human organ transplant from a baboon donor, died a month after h...

chonkus : a cyanobacterium discovered in a underwater volcanic vent gobbles up CO₂ at prodigious levels— see previously   attentat im bürg...