[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- ‘God couldn’t do faster’: Rubik’s cube mystery solved
- [New Scientist]
Every possible arrangement of the Rubik’s cube can be solved in 20 moves or less, a figure dubbed “God’s number”
[That would of course be Jeff, the God of Rubik. -L]
- Lucy the Butcher? Tool Use Pushed Back 800,000 Years
- [National Geographic News]
Newfound prehistoric leftovers suggest early human ancestors were using tools about 800,000 years earlier than thought, a new study says.
- Robot to explore Great Pyramid tunnels
- [A Blog About History - Sevaan Franks]
[Awesomest headline of the day? -L]
- Aphids, abandon ship
- [Science News]
Mammal breath drives insects to jump off plants
- How salmonella helps kill cancer cells
- [Science News]
Bacterium stimulates the immune system to ‘see’ tumors, could lead to vaccine
- Moonless sky sets stage for dazzling meteor show
- [New Scientist]
A hundred ‘shooting stars’ may grace the skies every hour during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower this Thursday night
- A look at the mysterious Pictish language of Scotland
- [A Blog About History - Sevaan Franks]
The mystery surrounding the ancient Pictish language is deepening as linguits [sic] examine the Pict stones in Scotland.
“They concluded that the Pictish carvings were ‘symbolic markings that communicated information’ – that these were words rather than pictures.”
- Hydrogen bombshell: Rewriting life’s history
- Oxygen is supposed to have driven the evolution of complex life – but the discovery of animals that thrive without it tells a different story
[Given that these animals live on Earth, how much more likely does this make it seem that life might have evolved on other planets, too? -L]
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