> Unearth the #Cairo Toe! 🦶 Dating back to 950-710 BCE, this wooden prosthetic toe from ancient #Egypt, now in the British Museum, reflects remarkable innovation. More than art, it's functional, enhancing mobility. A testament to resilience through the ages.
Original: https://mstdn.science/@furqanshah/111051554688611414
a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire
A 3D recreation of the capital of the Aztec empire, with comparisons with modern day Mexico City.
Scientists analysing DNA of object that could be an egg from an unknown sea creature or a marine sponge
I remember it was in the new books section of the school library and I was attracted to it immediately and spent the day reading it instead of paying attention in my classes. I need to read it again. Thanks for bringing it up!
I read that ages ago. Back in high school, in fact (I'm 46). I don't remember it except the chapter where time is a flock of birds that you have to try to catch to stay youthful. The children can catch them but always let them go and the adults can never catch them.
Off the coast of California is an unusual "octopus garden" — the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth, where over 6,000 octopuses huddle around an extinct underwater volcano in the black
Mindblowing. I never even thought of things that way!
This is from a real paper.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X23003176?via%3Dihub
That's actually smaller than I would have thought. I wouldn't have expected our solar system to even be visible in comparison.
> Prehistoric #baby bottles: marvellous feeding vessels in the shape of #animals from Vösendorf and Oberleis, Austria, dating 1200-800 BC. Baby bottles in the shape of animals are common in late Bronze and early Iron Age Europe. > >Photo: Wien Museum
Original: https://social.anoxinon.de/@ninawillburger/110898039703393391
Genetic information from an ancient human relative has been extracted, making it the oldest such data recovered to date.
Wow.
Mercury arc valves remain in use in some South African mines and Kenya (at Mombasa Polytechnic - Electrical & Electronic department).
Amazing how we're still using such old technology in some places when we have semiconductors.
This ten-second animation shows about three quarters of the planet’s complete orbit.
A new study finds that around 1.12 million years ago a massive cooling event in the North Atlantic and corresponding shifts in climate, vegetation and food resources disrupted early human occupation of Europe.
That said, a microscope that generates its own light without electricity could be quite useful...
A team of paleontologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with colleagues from Xi'an Jiaotong University, the University of York, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Research Center on Human Evolution, has found evidence of a previously unknown human lineage. I...
The Vikings expanded throughout Russia by using the Volga as a highway.
It's 42, we told you. Stop asking.
I don't know that you could necessarily develop the wheelbarrow without first having the concept of the wheeled cart.
Wheeled carts are not very practical without draught animals to pull them. And the one place they had animals like that, in South America, llamas and the civilizations that utilized them lived in the mountains where wheeled carts aren't practical either.
They say that Native Americans never developed the wheel. They clearly did. For sick dog skateboard tricks.
Researchers have identified a gigantic species of extinct whale from bones excavated more than a decade ago. Perucetus colossus may have been heavier than even the largest blue whales.
I just spent 5 minutes on Google because I misread your first line as 'rips sock bong hit' and I was trying to figure out what the hell a sock bong was.
The 99-million-year-old ant had scythe-like jaws that swung upward to pin prey against a horn-like head appendage
NASA+ will be a "no subscription required" streaming service for viewing rocket launches and NASA science, with app integration coming later this year.
Who lived at Machu Picchu at its height? A new study, published in Science Advances, used ancient DNA to find out for the first time where workers buried more than 500 years ago came from within the lost Inca Empire.
Tomatoes can be grown pretty successfully indoors. Also prickly pear.
Still too spicy for human consumption. They've been waiting...
