Or at least, Astrobiology says, save the species’ descendants. The secret of survival, on an evolutionary scale, isn’t a single lucky mutant, but a whole “relay team”… Read the rest “Slow and steady mutations save the species.”
Reddit’s just had a Q&A with the CEO of a company dedicated to 3D printing edible meat:
… Read the rest ““Human meat is not on the menu. Sorry.””At Modern Meadow we’re developing technology to 3D-bioprint meat and leather. In fact,
Space Daily enthuses over a strange formation snapped by Hubble – a deep-space V made by two galaxies, overlapping like enormous wings in space:
… Read the rest “Hubble snaps galactic vee.”This large “flying V”
A Devonian fish with a bony head.
That means it was swimming around hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs.
Found on the Scientific Illustration tumblog.
SONG: “Spirit of the Words” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Computer program roots out ancestors of modern… Read the rest “SONG: Spirit of the Words”
PhysOrg gets non-linear with their look at “time reversal” and how we might soon use it:
… Read the rest ““Once time runs backwards, we’ll….” Now wait a minute. What?”Imagine a cell phone charger that recharges your phone remotely without even knowing
The Economist is gazing into the pretty colors…not of quantum computers, but quantum television screens:
… Read the rest “We’ll all be staring at quantum dots.”An LCD screen works with a backlight shining through red, blue or green
Nature looks at the star power of “network theory,” curious statistics that control all kinds of complicated systems. They’ve found that even really complex networks… Read the rest “Finding the influential few. In medicine, in politics, and in social networks….”
Not individual whales, but whole new species. Science has the details on the big, big discovery in California’s highway system:
… Read the rest “Road workers discover four whales. (One very scary one.)”“In California, you need a paleontologist and an
Originally published in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica, by Philip Gosse, who had awesome sideburns. And a relationship with M&N Hanhart, prolific publishers… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate IV: Chilabothrus Inornatus and Dactyloa Edwardsii, by M&N Hanhart,1851.”
You may have heard about this by now, but a 10-ton chunk of space rock slammed into the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and exploded, RT and dozens of other outlets have reported. The… Read the rest “Meteor explodes over Urals. I’m not making that up.”
CNet reports on NASA researchers who may have snapped the first pictures of a new black hole being born:
… Read the rest ““Breathe, supernova! Now PUSH!” (Watching a black hole being born.)”Caught on film by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the “remnant,”
Nature examines the biology of fear – and how researchers have succeeded in creating fear in the fearless:
… Read the rest “This is how you scare the fearless. Neurologically.”Many studies on animals over the years have shown that the amygdala, a small,
Nature reports on the algorithm researchers have devised to find (or recreate) the ancestors of modern languages:
… Read the rest ““Bituqen” is Proto-Polynesian for “star.” A computer figured that out.”Statistician Alexandre Bouchard-Côté of the University of British
Slate examines the mysteries of the mass extinction that killed all the dinosaurs… except the birds:
… Read the rest “Not just an asteroid. What *else* killed the dinosaurs?”“Dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid 65 million years ago” is now an indicator
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