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Month: May 2010

Mammoth blood lives again.

12 May 2010 grant b 0

Science magazine brings us a step closer to a Pleistocene Park by reporting on the creation of living mammoth blood:

By inserting a 43,000-year-old woolly mammoth gene into Escherichia

… Read the rest “Mammoth blood lives again.”

What happened to the ozone hole?

11 May 2010 grant b 0

In case you were wondering, what with all the climate change talk nowadays, LiveScience reminds us that there’s still a hole in the sky:

First, the good news: Since the 1989 Montreal

… Read the rest “What happened to the ozone hole?”

Science Art: ATP Synthase, Essential Cell Biology.

9 May 2010 grant b 0

This video is from Essential Cell Biology, 3rd Edition by Alberts, Bray, Hopkin, Johnson, Lewis, Raff and Roberts (and apparently not from Tokyo Institute of Technology as credited elsewhere).… Read the rest “Science Art: ATP Synthase, Essential Cell Biology.”

“The Poetry of Reality” by Symphony of Science.

8 May 2010 grant b 0

More. They made more.


Yes.

Information here.… Read the rest ““The Poetry of Reality” by Symphony of Science.”

Watch out where the huskies go….

7 May 2010 grant b 0

NASA, Discovery News reports, has just found evidence of life on Earth. By locating yellow snow:

Using their Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the EO-1 satellite, NASA has managed to identify

… Read the rest “Watch out where the huskies go….”

How climate change works.

6 May 2010 grant b 0

Finally, finally, NASA explains in clear, simple terms why they think humans are behind global warming:

Based on a combination of paleoclimate data and models, scientists estimate that

… Read the rest “How climate change works.”

Zap goes the mushroom.

5 May 2010 grant b 0

No, not like that. PhysOrg reveals the way lightning makes the mushrooms grow:

A four-year study carried out at Iwate University in northern Japan on ten species of mushroom (so far) has

… Read the rest “Zap goes the mushroom.”

Space berries!

4 May 2010 grant b 0

Purdue University researchers have devised a menu for a mission to Mars (or further) – fresh strawberries grown in space:

Cary Mitchell, professor of horticulture, and Gioia Massa,

… Read the rest “Space berries!”

Swap DNA with bugs.

3 May 2010 grant b 0

Feeling like you need more intimacy in your life? Science Daily reveals an alternative to finding that special person in your life. Nature provides a way for us to trade genes with insects… Read the rest “Swap DNA with bugs.”

Science Art: Cerra Armazona at night, European Southern Observatory.

2 May 2010 grant b 0



Click to embiggen

This is the site where the Europeans are building the world’s largest visible-light telescope, the E-ELT, or European Extremely Large Telescope. The name isn’t… Read the rest “Science Art: Cerra Armazona at night, European Southern Observatory.”

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