Under California law, a paleontologist and an archaeologist must be on-site to supervise during any new road construction — and in at least one case, this law has turned out to be quite useful.
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Red Brain, Blue Brain: Are There Neurological Differences Between Democrats and Republicans?
It turns out liberals and conservatives really do think differently.
‘Bionic Eye’ Helps the Blind to Partially See
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a “bionic eye” that allows blind people to see again – at least to an extent.
How to Find Aliens (Alien Plants, Too) by Probing a Planet’s Colors
For all our obsession with the possibility of intelligent alien life, the search for E.T. has so far been a letdown. What’s a self-respecting alien-hunter to do?
World’s First Movable City Powers Up in Antarctica
How do you turn a tiny science-city at the far end of the earth into a flexible biosphere capable of skating around vast fields of ice?
Math Madness: New Largest Prime Number Is 17 Million Digits Long
And it puts the previous largest known prime to shame. That one was a paltry 12 million digits.
NASA ‘Super-Tiger’ Balloon Breaks Two Records Soaring over Antarctica
You’d think the records would have to do with a figure like “50 million” — the number of cosmic rays an NASA science ballon drifting over Antarctica recently intercepted — but it actually involves a pair of flight duration records.
Study: Heat in New York Can Change the Weather in Siberia
Could hot weather in metropolitan areas be heating up distant regions? Researchers say yes.
Are Crop Circles More Than Just Modern Pranks?
That’s what one theorist claims, after studying images from 1945
PHOTOS: Astronaut Chris Hadfield Tweets Stunning Images from Orbit
Sure, sometimes Twitter feels like one big maelstrom of drivel — a digital platform for utter minutiae. But at other times the social media platform can be ridiculously awesome, especially when used the way Chris Hadfield is …
Meet ‘Vomiting Larry’: The Fake Vomiting Head Scientists Are Using To Study The Norovirus Epidemic
When most people think of disease researchers, they think of heavily-masked scientists cordoning off contagious patients before they spread disease to innocent bystanders — you know, like in CSI or Contagion. They don’t think …
Miniature Star Trek-Style ‘Tractor Beam’ Created in Lab
We are so living in the future.