How can slime mold learn? But it does….
Wired investigates an organism – not even an animal, doesn’t even have internal organs or nerves, much less a brain – that still somehow learns […]
Wired investigates an organism – not even an animal, doesn’t even have internal organs or nerves, much less a brain – that still somehow learns […]
So first, there’s a dwarf planet called Makemake. And now, says Space.com, Hubble found out that it has a moon: Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space […]
Science magazine has some interesting – and rather weird – findings about the new “brain-zapping” technology that uses magnets to affect brain states. Apparently, as […]
Click to embiggen vastly This is a mural at the Smithsonian Museum, showing how the Great Plains would have looked about 3 million years ago. […]
SONG: “Meat Man”. [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “High-Protein Diet May Have Shaped Neanderthals,” Archaeology, 30 March 2016, as used in the post Protein Diet Shaped […]
The Atlantic (the magazine, not the ocean) just located a giant reef no one knew existed near the mouth of the Amazon River: A team […]
Wired (with a little help from Cassini) narrows our search for the hidden, big planet orbiting the fringes of the solar system: Matthew J. Holman […]
Another BBC story, this one about a family of immune-boosting drugs that eat away melanoma in a fifth of patients: The first survival data on […]
BBC reports on the computer model that seems to explain how the monarch butterflies make their amazing Canada-to-Mexico trek: Lead researcher Prof Eli Shlizerman, from […]
Click to embiggen This is an artist’s conception of the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble. The European Space Agency is working […]
Science Daily reveals how a century-old spectrographic analysis is probably the first ever evidence of an alien planetary system: bout a year ago, the review’s […]
University of Washington undergrads have won $10,000 for designing gloves that translate sign language into text or speech: The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is a nationwide […]
New Scientist expands upon the company that just sent an inflatable room to the ISS… and what they’d like to do next: Bigelow Aerospace, which […]
Nature has more on the (non-viable) human embryos that were modified to resist HIV before being destroyed: Researchers in China have reported editing the genes […]
Click to embiggen Spice. In watercolor. It looks like it would smell delicious. From 40 Drawings of Plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, a collection of natural […]
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