It is a regrettable reality that we do not have enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories coming our way every month. So each month, we highlight some of the best stories that almost made it. January’s list includes a lip-synching robot; using brewer’s yeast as a scaffold for lab-grown meat; Looking for Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA in his art; And there is new evidence that humans actually shipped stones to build Stonehenge from Wales and northern Scotland, rather than having them transported by glaciers.
Humans, not glaciers, moved the stones to Stonehenge
Credit: Timothy Darvill
Stonehenge is an iconic site of endless fascination for tourists and researchers. Recently a number of chemical analyzes have been carried out to find out where all the stones making up the structure came from, which revealed that many of them originated in quarries located quite far away. So how were the stones transported to their present location?
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