Asia Pacific|China's Craft Breweries Find They May Have a 5000-Year-Old Relative
Photo Scholars say that beer may have been an important part of ritual feasting in ancient China. Credit Sim Chi Yin for The New York Times HONG KONG — China is abuzz with craft brewing, with small-scale operations popping up around the country and churning out beer tasting of everything from goji berries to green tea.But like many things in China, what’s new isn’t that new. In this case, it’s about 5,000 years old.A group of researchers in China and the United States h..>> view originalRegeneron Named as Science Talent Search Sponsor
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. was selected as the new named sponsor of the Science Talent Search, making the biotechnology company the third corporate benefactor of the iconic 75-year-old high-school science competition once widely known as “the Westinghouse.” Regeneron, whose top two executives are alumni of the Science Talent Search competition, was selected from among some 50 companies and philanthropies that initially expressed...>> view originalScientists: Underground stone rings made by Neanderthals
BERLIN (AP) — Two mysterious stone rings found deep inside a French cave were probably built by Neanderthals about 176,500 years ago, proving that the ancient cousins of humans were capable of more complex behavior than previously thought, scientists say. The structures were made from hundreds of pillar-shaped mineral deposits, called stalagmites, which were chopped to a similar length and laid out in two oval patterns up to 40 centimeters (16 inches) inches high. They were discovered by chance..>> view originalAstronomers Confirm Faintest Early-Universe Galaxy Ever Seen
An international team of scientists, including two professors and three graduate students from UCLA, has detected and confirmed the faintest early-universe galaxy ever. Using the W. M. Keck Observatory on the summit on Maunakea in Hawaii, the researchers detected the galaxy as it was 13 billion years ago. The results were published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Tommaso Treu, a professor of physics and astronomy in the UCLA College and a co-author of the research, said the discove..>> view originalThat study critiquing NASA's 'bad science' on asteroids is pretty bad science
(NASA illustration) On Monday, the New York Times published a piece on Nathan P. Myhrvold, former chief technologist of Microsoft. Myhrvold, who has built a reputation for himself as something of a patent troll, says he's shown that NASA's research on asteroids is a mess. Myhrvold has a PhD in physics, but no experience with asteroids — which he says makes him the perfect man to take this bad science down. Myhrvold's paper, which he's made available online, is 110 pages long and has not yet ..>> view originalA new theory is close to solving one of the greatest mysteries of how life began on Earth
Life on Earth began some 4 billion years ago. But it shouldn’t have. In its lifecycle, at that time, a young star like our sun would have been radiating only about 70% as much energy as now. That would have made the Earth an icy ball. And so there would have been no liquid water to give life an essential ingredient it needed. Yet, we know from geological evidence that somehow life did start then. This is called the “faint young sun paradox,” and scientists have been trying hard to explain what ..>> view originalSupermassive black holes cause galactic-scale warming
For most of their lives, galaxies are lush environments for turning gas into stars. Until they aren’t. Over the last few billion years, a mysterious kind of “galactic warming” has turned huge numbers of galaxies into deserts devoid of fresh young stars. The puzzle for astronomers has been identifying the unknown process that keeps the gas in these dormant galaxies too hot and energetic to form stars. Today, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) are announcing the discovery of ..>> view originalSee gorgeous lightning strikes blaze in super slo-mo
Lightning comes and goes in a flash. With the naked eye, you can vaguely trace its path, following the brief moments as it branches through the sky. To really get into the details of a lightning strike, you need an assist from an advanced camera capable of recording at 7,000 frames per second. Professor Ningyu Liu at the Florida Institute of Technology has one and used it to document a lightning storm.The high-speed camera allows for some super slow-motion footage, letting us see every jagged br..>> view original
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