The weed that can feed the world.
Well, maybe not *directly*… but Science Daily explains how scientists are watching Arabidopsis thaliana, a fast-growing, globally found weed known as mouse-eared cress, to learn […]
Well, maybe not *directly*… but Science Daily explains how scientists are watching Arabidopsis thaliana, a fast-growing, globally found weed known as mouse-eared cress, to learn […]
An artisan, working with technology. A front cover image from 1940, found in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
That’s it. Canada’s space hero did this on the International Space Station. You can hear the slight buzz of the station’s fans in the background. […]
SONG: “Starts Beating” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists build a biological pacemaker by injecting a modified […]
We’ve talked about digital subtraction angiography before… taking X-ray images and using a computer to remove everything you *don’t* want to see. This image, of […]
Wired beholds an eerie arthropod self-portrait… a piece of functional art, a spider, by spider: In September, [biologist Phil] Torres was leading visitors into a […]
MIT Technology Review crunches the numbers and figures that anyone who spends three years on Mars is going to witness an H-bomb-sized asteroid collision: Today. […]
io9.com, appropriately enough, has the details on a treatment that seems straight out of science fiction – a virus that infects heart cells and turns […]
Brace yourselves for more global warming news. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is ready to post its next report. Most of us, like Scientific […]
Click to embiggen Here’s the key component of a crystal oscillator – which is to say, the slightly fancier version of a pendulum that keeps […]
Remember Alan Alda’s quest to explain what a flame is so an 11-year-old would understand? He’s polled hundreds of elementary-school kids and is asking another […]
SciTech Daily salutes the latest Cassini discovery – first surface liquid spotted on an alien world: The international Cassini mission has spotted what appears to […]
Discovery doesn’t have much to say about it other than, in essence, YES! FINALLY! WE FILMED A GIANT SQUID! Mankind finally confronts the greatest mystery […]
Telegraph does not take the ballooning helium shortage lightly, and neither does Cambridge chemist Dr. Peter Wothers: Helium is a non-renewable gas that is used […]
A map from the Massachusetts Environment Department City Archaeology Program, found on archive.org.
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