Month: November 2024

What this 500-year-old shipwreck can tell us about how we age

Dem collarbones A schematic to illustrate the approximate location from which the measurements were taken; an example right clavicle from each age group. Credit: S.I. Shalnkland et al., PLOS ONE 2024 A schematic to illustrate the approximate location from which…

China’s long-term lunar plans now depend on developing its own Starship

When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country’s first super heavy lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked like a fairly conventional booster. The rocket was fully expendable, with three stages and solid motors strapped onto its…

Dystopika is a beautiful cyberpunk city builder without the ugly details

Hooray! I’ve unlocked the headquarters for a megacorp with a very ominous name! (Please appreciate my efforts at public transit.) Credit: Kevin Purdy You do get to pick out “Props,” like roads and trams and giant billboards and hologram objects…

Fungi may not think, but they can communicate

Because the soil layer was so thin, most hyphae, which usually grow and spread underground by releasing spores, were easily seen, giving the researchers an opportunity to observe where connections were being made in the mycelium. Early hyphal coverage was…

iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games

Even the bad clickwheel iPod games—like Sega’s nearly impossible-to-control Sonic the Hedgehog port—might find their own quirky audience among gaming subcommunities, Olsro argued. “One [person] beat Dark Souls using DK bongos, so I would not be surprised if the speedrun…