Click Here to Read: An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science: What scientists are able to teach and what research we can pursue are under attack. I know because I’m living it, writes biologist Luana Maroja by Luana Maroja on the Common Sense website on November 7, 2022.
Human Heart and Circulatory System Image: Bryan Brandenburg. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism For most of human evolution, multiple species with different ways of walking upright coexisted By Jeremy DeSilva in the Scientific American issue of November 1, 2022.
Cast of the “Laetoli footprints” — the earliest known human footprints in the world, on display in the Hall of Human Origins in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. These footprints are those of Australopithecus afarensis. Image: Tim Evanson. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Drought reveals 113 million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Texas: Prints mostly left by a creature that stood 15 feet tall, weighed 7 tons and roamed the area 113 million years ago have emerged as the Paluxy River has disappeared By Tim Stelloh on the NBC News website on Aug. 23, 2022.
Acrocanthosaurus atokensis, Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of North America. Image: DiBgd Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: A Minimalist Approach to the Hunt for Dark Matter: In a new experiment, researchers looked for tiny flickers in the fundamental constants of nature on the Wired website on August 2, 2022.
Dark Matter. Image: https://www.instagram.com/p/CG8Q7DwleJF/ Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Identity of mystery fossils found in Chinese cave revealed by DNA analysis By Katie Hunt, on the CNN News website on July 14, 2022.
Longlin 1 partial skull (each bar = 1 cm) found in Longlin Cave in the Guangxi Zhuang region of China. Image Curnoe, D.; Xueping, J.; Herries, A. I. R.; Kanning, B.; Taçon, P. S. C.; Zhende, B.; Fink, D.; Yunsheng, Z Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
