Wired investigates an organism – not even an animal, doesn’t even have internal organs or nerves, much less a brain – that still somehow learns to avoid unpleasant things… Read the rest “How can slime mold learn? But it does….”
So first, there’s a dwarf planet called Makemake. And now, says Space.com, Hubble found out that it has a moon:
… Read the rest “A new moon in the outer solar system.”Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered
Science magazine has some interesting – and rather weird – findings about the new “brain-zapping” technology that uses magnets to affect brain states. Apparently,… Read the rest “Transcranial magnetic stimulation isn’t doing what we thought.”
This is a mural at the Smithsonian Museum, showing how the Great Plains would have looked about 3 million years ago.
The critters here include Amebelodon (the elephant-lookin’… Read the rest “Science Art: Restoration of Pliocene fauna of North America, Smithsonian Museum.”
SONG: “Meat Man”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “High-Protein Diet May Have Shaped Neanderthals,” Archaeology, 30 March 2016,
as used in the post Protein Diet Shaped… Read the rest “SONG: “Meat Man””
The Atlantic (the magazine, not the ocean) just located a giant reef no one knew existed near the mouth of the Amazon River:
… Read the rest “Well, *anyone* could misplace a 600-mile barrier reef! Right?”A team of Brazilian and American scientists have discovered a new
Wired (with a little help from Cassini) narrows our search for the hidden, big planet orbiting the fringes of the solar system:
… Read the rest “We’re closing in on Planet Nine. (Or X. Whatever.)”Matthew J. Holman and Matthew J. Payne of the Harvard-Smithsonian
Another BBC story, this one about a family of immune-boosting drugs that eat away melanoma in a fifth of patients:
… Read the rest “New skin-cancer combo wipes out 20% of tumors.”The first survival data on using ipilimumab and nivolumab in combination
BBC reports on the computer model that seems to explain how the monarch butterflies make their amazing Canada-to-Mexico trek:
… Read the rest “Monarch migration mystery – solved! (We think.)”Lead researcher Prof Eli Shlizerman, from the University
This is an artist’s conception of the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble. The European Space Agency is working on it, with NASA, Northrop Grumman… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s impression of JWST, European Space Agency, 2013”
Science Daily reveals how a century-old spectrographic analysis is probably the first ever evidence of an alien planetary system:
… Read the rest “New astronomy from old sources: Planetary system found in a photographic plate from 1917.”bout a year ago, the review’s author, Jay Farihi
University of Washington undergrads have won $10,000 for designing gloves that translate sign language into text or speech:
… Read the rest “These gloves translate sign language.”The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is a nationwide search for
New Scientist expands upon the company that just sent an inflatable room to the ISS… and what they’d like to do next:
… Read the rest “Inflatable space station could orbit by 2020.”Bigelow Aerospace, which just sent an inflatable room to
Nature has more on the (non-viable) human embryos that were modified to resist HIV before being destroyed:
… Read the rest “Chinese researchers edit genes in human embryos – again.”Researchers in China have reported editing the genes of human embryos to try to
Spice.
In watercolor.
It looks like it would smell delicious.
From 40 Drawings of Plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, a collection of natural history paintings done by Chinese… Read the rest “Science Art: Nutmeg Tree, from 40 drawings of plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, c.1824.”
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