A trove of fossilized eggs reveals that the largest dinosaurs to walk Earth could reproduce far from ideal nesting areas.
no author | 19:28
A shipping container falling off a cargo ship in 1992 spilled 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys into the Pacific, and oceanographers spent the next 20 years tracking where they washed ashore to map the world's ocean currents. - Space Daily
A lost shipment of bath toys became an accidental oceanographic instrument, revealing decades of currents and gyre patterns that scientists couldn't observe any other way.
Anthony Wood | 18:00
Astrophotographer captures jaw-dropping view of the Crescent Nebula - Space
Astrophotographer Kevin Boardman spent more than 16 hours capturing the intricate filaments of the Crescent Nebula.
Bruce Gil | 16:45
Google Mapped a Fruit Fly’s Brain. Now It’s Playing Doom and Super Mario 64 - Gizmodo
Researchers published a complete map of a male fruit fly’s nervous system, and programmers are already making it play video games.
no author | 16:30
Beagle 2 went silent on Christmas Day 2003 and was identified 11 years later in Mars-orbit images on Isidis Planitia, having apparently landed successfully and begun deploying its solar panels. The images suggested that one or more panels remained closed - Space Daily
Orbital images suggested Beagle 2 survived its Mars landing but could not communicate. Later modelling refined the solar-panel interpretation without conclusively establishing the failure.
Jennifer Ouellette | 16:20
How eggshells can protect spacecraft from space debris - Ars Technica
3D-printed aluminum eggshell arrays filled with water proved more effective at impact resistance.
no author | 16:09
Cohesin prevents local mixing of condensed euchromatic domains in living human cells - Nature
Single-nucleosome imaging/tracking and super-resolution three-dimensional structured illumination microscopy within euchromatic regions show that cohesin-mediated loops constrain condensed euchromatic domains. Cohesin loss increases their fluidity without aff…