Category Archives: Science

How Ancient DNA is Rewriting India’s History | Think English

How Ancient DNA is Rewriting India’s History – New DNA research on the Indus Valley civilisation is changing what we know about the subcontinent’s early people. That affects modern people, too.

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These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth

What are these electric blue ponds in the middle of the Utah desert? And why do they keep changing color? Join Derek Muller (Veritasium) as he looks into the weird, bizarre, and seemingly inexplicable images found on Google Earth to … Continue reading

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Box seat: scientists solve the mystery of why wombats have cube-shaped poo | Guardian

Unique physiology allows the Australian marsupial to produce square-shaped faeces that may aid communication How wombats produce their cube-shape poo has long been a biological puzzle but now an international study has provided the answer to this unusual natural phenomenon. … Continue reading

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The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years

Our DNA holds evidence of a huge, ancient pandemic, one that touched many different species, spanned the globe, and lasted for more than 15 million years. The paper we discuss throughout the episode: Diehl, W., Patel, N., Halm, K. and … Continue reading

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Improved microscopy technique sees living cells with seven times more sensitivity – Physics World

A comparison of conventional quantitative phase imaging (top row) and the new ADRIFT-QPI method (bottom) shows the increased sensitivity in imaging features of a live cell. (Courtesy: Toda et al, CC-BY 4.0) Latest development in quantitative phase imaging allows an … Continue reading

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The Formula That Will Determine Our Energy Future | Answers With Joe

We all want cleaner, more renewable energy. But when it comes down to it, the energy of the future is going to be the cheapest energy. So in this video we compare energy production by the Levelized Cost of Energy, … Continue reading

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Our Brains Broadcast a Message We Don’t Understand

About Thoughty2 Thoughty2 (Arran) is a British YouTuber and gatekeeper of useless facts. Thoughty2 creates mind-blowing factual videos about science, tech, history, opinion and just about everything else. #Thoughty2​ Writing: Bevan Rees Editing: Alex Brown Script Development: Steven Rix

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Where do atoms come from?

Note: The graph at 7 mins 44 seconds has the axes labels mixed up! The horizontal axis shows the number of neutrons, and the vertical one the number of protons, not the other way round. Sorry about that!! Addendum to … Continue reading

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Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?

HUMAN ANCESTORS Scientists have found evidence of hot springs near sites where ancient hominids settled, long before the control of fire. The proximity of the hot springs indicates to the researchers that early humans could have used them for cooking. … Continue reading

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 Sheanderthal | Aeon

Not all Neanderthals were ‘cavemen’: half were women. What can archaeologists tell us about how they lived? The first Neanderthal face to emerge from time’s sarcophagus was a woman’s. As the social and liberal revolutions of 1848 began convulsing Europe, … Continue reading

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