We know about Archaeopteryx lithographica thanks to an image-making process found in the Earth's crust.
Read More »Life
Unevenly Distributed: Chrome, the iPad and the Crossroads of Civilization
On October 7th, 1930 � slender and bright; like a string tense and silent in anticipation of the purpose of her note � Beatrice Warde was introduced to the British Typographer's Guild. The speech she gave would change the way people thought about type for the next fifty years... and should be burnt into the flesh of anyone who is making a gadget to this day.
Read More »Giant storks and the hobbits of Flores
On the Indonesian island of Flores, researchers have discovered the remains of a giant bird that might have preyed on the mysterious and controversial Homo floresiensis, an extinct, diminutive close relative of modern humans.
Read More »Algorithmic wisdom of the ants
By studying the search algorithms of ants, researchers are discovering ways of making computer networks faster and smarter.
Read More »Arsenic and old wallpaper
Unless you grew up in the muds of Mono Lake, you had better be careful opening that box.
Read More »A flurry of moths
Eyes in the darkness and a snowstorm in reverse, players in an ecological chamber play.
Read More »When blindfolded, there’s no place like home
NPR's Robert Krulwich reports on an astonishing finding: blindfolded, no one can walk in a straight line.
Read More »Update from the corvid alert system
Future rulers of the planet, the crows, unlike cats and other animals, are smart enough to work together. Video after the jump.
Read More »Pocahontas’ precursor?
Half a millennium before Columbus' calamitous 1492 arrival in the Caribbean, DNA from the Americas may have infiltrated the European genome by way of a woman brought to Iceland by Vikings. Like the semimythical Pocahantas, her impact may have been far-reaching.
Read More »A network of caws
A morning on the slow but effective internet of the crows.
Read More »