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Seven days, lots of science in the news. Here’s our roundup of this week’s most notable and quotable items.
Scientists figured out how to unboil an egg by teasing apart the tangled proteins of the cooked egg.
A 55,000-year-old skull found in Israel may belong to a close relative of the first humans to move into Europe.
Polar bears are catching a bad break—not only are their habitats being threatened by climate change, pollution may be weakening the bears’ penis bones.
Nighttime leg cramps are more common in summer.
The Mexican government is considering providing drone bodyguards for a rare, endangered porpoise.
Newly discovered exoplanet J1407b has a ring system 200 times larger than Saturn’s.
The Ebola virus may be mutating.
Scientists found that one type of South American scorpion can lose its tail—but in doing so, it also loses the ability to defecate, making its days numbered.
Icebergs splitting off of glaciers create unique “acoustic signatures,” meaning researchers might be able to listen to ice to better gauge the extent of melt.
Anthropologists mapped all 61 tattoos on Otzi, the 5,300-year-old human mummy found frozen in the Austrian Alps.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether or not to test genetically altered mosquitoes in Florida to combat dengue fever and other diseases; the mosquitoes are designed to mate with native mosquitoes and produce offspring that will die before they reach adulthood.
The Sierra Nevada red fox was spotted in Yosemite National Park for the first time in 100 years.
The stream of electronic data created by everything from credit card purchases to phone calls, even when stripped of personal information, can be used to track you.
(Illustration by: Sarah Peavey)
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