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From humanity's earliest days we've kept a close eye on time.
The Essence of Time: Monumentally Important Clocks | Wired Science | Wired.com
For the first time, physicists have watched a single proton flip over on its axis.
Proton Somersault Study Could Explain Why Matter Still Exists | Wired Science | Wired.com
Dinosaurs Had Mammal-Hot Blood | Wired Science | Wired.com
By Scott Johnson, Ars Technica Unless you’ve been fossilized in a cave for the last few decades, you’ve probably heard about the debate over whether dinosaurs were coldblooded or warmblooded. Researchers have attacked this question using computer modeling to determine things like body mass and heat-loss rates, or compared locomotion and energy use.New Uncontacted Group Confirmed in Brazil | Wired Science | Wired.com
The Brazilian government has confirmed the existence of a previously unknown group of so-called uncontacted people who have remained isolated from industrial society.
By John Timmer, Ars Technica
What You Learned About Static Electricity Is Wrong | Wired Science | Wired.com
Neutrino Transformation Could Help Explain Mystery of Matter | Wired Science | Wired.com
Two research teams have found new evidence of transformations in elusive elementary particles called neutrinos.
Taz Devil Genome Sequenced to Fight Contagious Cancer | Wired Science | Wired.com
By Mark Brown, Wired UK
An analysis of competing videogame violence reports submitted to the Supreme Court found that researchers warning of links to real-world aggression had far stronger academic credentials than their opponents.
Defeated Videogame-Violence Experts: Science Was on Our Side | Wired Science | Wired.com
A trove of books from Charles Darwin’s personal library is now digitized, online and free for all to view. The collection, displaying Darwin’s scrawled-in-pencil marginalia, tantalizingly reveals his thought process as he developed the theory of evolution. While many of his papers and notebooks are already online, Darwin didn't keep a notebook for several months after returning from his 5-year-long voyage aboard the HMS Beagle .
Young Darwin’s Marginalia Shows Evolution of His Theory | Wired Science | Wired.com
Gaze upon a lover’s picture, and pain won’t seem so sharp: It’s a poetic truth, and a scientific one too. But is it simply because that image provokes a tiny, on-demand burst of pleasure? Or does even the mere thought of a loved one serve as a shield, a buffer against hurt?
How Love Makes (Some) Pain Go Away | Wired Science | Wired.com
ANAHEIM, California — Experimenting with a vivacious blonde, only to settle instead on a somber brunette, is an old, clichéd storyline — in fact, it’s at least 200 years old. A new analysis of a 19th century painting reveals that the artist first depicted a blonde with purple ribbons in her hair, before painting the canvas over with a sedate, unadorned brunette.
X-Rays Reveal 19th-Century Artist’s Cover-Up | Wired Science | Wired.com
The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful atom smasher, may be only months away from finding a new elementary particle — a sign of a new force in nature — recent studies suggest. The studies focus on the top quark, the heaviest of the six quarks, which are the fundamental building blocks of nature. Top quarks appear to behave badly when they are produced during proton-antiproton collisions at a lower-energy particle accelerator, the Fermilab’s Tevatron in Batavia, Illinois.
LHC Locking In on New Elementary Particle | Wired Science | Wired.com
Big earthquakes like the Sendai quake that devastated Japan in March don’t cause similar disasters on the other side of the globe, a new study suggests. Like ranks of falling dominoes, tremors on the scale of the Sendai quake can trigger other earthquakes, say geophysicists at the U.S.
Big Earthquakes Are Not Linked | Wired Science | Wired.com
By John Timmer, Ars Technica Air travel has come under fire for its potential contributions to climate change.
Contrails Worse for Climate Change Than Planes’ Carbon Emissions | Wired Science | Wired.com
Things don’t look good for Gliese 581g, the first planet found orbiting in the habitable zone of another star. The first official challenge to the small, hospitable world looks in the exact same data — and finds no significant sign of the planet. “For the time being, the world does not have data that’s good enough to claim the planet,” said astro-statistics expert Philip Gregory of the University of British Columbia, author of the new study.