Flesh Velcro fixes hearts.
Irish Examiner looks into the “biological Velcro” that could soon help repair damaged hearts: Velcro uses two sheets of material, one covered by hooks and […]
Month: August 2015
Science Art: Giant Animals: Modern and Extinct (detail), by Mary McLain
Click to embiggen These are prehistoric animals compared to their modern relatives and, for scale, a human. A human who’s interested in what they’re like… […]
Self-driving trucks – no humans *at all* – on Florida’s roads this year.
Popular Science warns us to slow down by construction sites and watch for self-driving trucks on Florida roads by year’s end: The rigs, which are […]
“Secretive company” unveils better way to do fusion. (It’s legit.)
Science magazine has an exclusive report on a fusion group that could change everything. They’ve got a reactor that works better than any power source […]
What makes tick-borne diseases so tough?
Nature tries to figure out why we’re not making the headway we should against Lyme, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and the rest of the tick-borne […]
A flu vaccine that really works. All the time.
Wired brings up the potential of a universal flu vaccine – and the problems getting one together: Today, independent teams reported in Science and Nature […]
Science Art: Jupiter’s Rings by LORRI, 2007.
Click to embiggen. The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) snapped this photo of Jupiter’s ring system on February 24, 2007, from a distance […]
SONG: Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth)
SONG: “Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth)”. [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “NASA Windbots Could Explore Gas Giant Jupiter”, Sky News, 24 July 2015, as used in […]
Hope. Hope from frogs. They might just survive.
Nature reports that, in the face of extinction, frogs have a way to adapt to pesticides – a little: Several species of frogs can quickly […]
Sea monster found off Sweden – and archaeologists are thrilled.
Denmark’s The Local shares the excitement of discovering a 400-year-old dragon – a figurehead from a Danish ship – that has been hidden in the […]
Whistled language is right-brained.
German researchers, as disclosed in Science Daily, have found a singularly creative language – a form of whistled Turkish that, unlike any other language on […]
City grime “breathes out” pollution
BBC reveals a dirty secret about our sooty cities – the grunge doesn’t trap air pollution – it creates it: In rooftop experiments in Germany, […]
Life on Mars, and not too long ago.
The Denver Post‘s (ahem) “nerd blog” has some interesting things to say about the planet next door – which, University of Colorado researchers believe, might […]
Science Art: Doree, Zeus, Faber by Edward Donovan
Three names for one little fish. And those are just the beginning. I found this one on the Scientific Illustration tumblog, which quoted Wikipedia on […]
Tapping the power of DNA electronics: recharge the battery by touching it.
Science Daily introduces a new way to recharge your battery – take this flexible, biodegradable device and power it up by touching it: Many people […]