Study: the best free-throw shooters share these biomechanical traits
There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2020, each day from December 25 through January 5. Today: Using markerless motion capture technology…
How archaeologists reconstructed the burning of Jerusalem in 586 BCE
Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2020, each day from December 25 through January 5. Today: Archaeologists…
Aaarr matey! Life on a 17th century pirate ship was less...
There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2020, each day from December 25 through January 5. Today: Pirates! Specifically, an interview with…
These scientists explored the good vibrations of the bundengan and didgeridoo
Enlarge / The bundengan (left) began as a combined shelter/instrument for duck hunters but it is now often played onstage. There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that…
A forensic artist has given a 500-year-old Inca “ice maiden” a...
Enlarge / The final approximation of the Incan girl dubbed "Juanita" wearing clothing similar to what she was wearing when she died. Dagmara Socha There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting…
How a forensic artist reconstructed the face of 500-year-old Inca “ice...
Enlarge / The final approximation of the Incan girl dubbed "Juanita" wearing clothing similar to what she was wearing when she died. Dagmara Socha There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting…
Getting to the bottom of how red flour beetles absorb water...
Enlarge / Who doesn't thrill to the sight of a microscopic cross-section of a beetle's rectum? You're welcome.Kenneth Veland Halberg There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that…
Watch sand defy gravity and flow uphill thanks to “negative friction”
There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2023, each day from December 25 through January 5. Today: how applying magnetic forces to…
People can tell what you want to know when you shake...
Enlarge / Shake, shake, shake: this adorable young child would love to guess what he's getting for Christmas this year. Johns Hopkins University There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one…
People can see what you want to know by shaking wrapped...
Enlarge / Shake, shake, shake: this adorable young child would love to guess what he's getting for Christmas this year. Johns Hopkins University There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one…
