This is a cartoon – a *funny* cartoon from about a hundred years before smartphones became a thing.
We knew what they would do to us. Even then, we knew.
It was published… Read the rest “Science Art: Forecasts for 1907, Punch Magazine, 1906.”
Nature fearlessly plunges into our nostrils in search of bacteria that can kill MRSA:
… Read the rest “A superbug antibiotic… that comes out of our noses?”The potential new soldier in the fight against MRSA is a molecule called lugdunin produced by the bacterium
Miami Herald reports on some hope for an endangered species – the first known leatherback nest (with hatchlings!) found in the Florida Keys:
… Read the rest “Leatherbacks get around. Now, they’ve found a new beach.”The nest is at Bahia Honda State Park at
Nature reports on another genetic revolution that’s, um, brewing in Belgium, where DNA researchers are tweaking yeast to make better beer:
… Read the rest “Beer geneticists.”Kevin Verstrepen’s lab meetings can
CBC News reports on the pioneering work (and maybe friendly rivalry) being used to cure lung cancer with edited genes:
… Read the rest “Two teams of scientists are using CRISPR on humans.”[F]or scientists like Jason Moffat, at the University of Toronto,
I’m not sure exactly what this is a map of (other than Glen Tilt, Tayside), because there’s not much information on the USGS page where I found it.
It’s got a lovely geometry,… Read the rest “Science Art: Map, Glen Tilt, Tayside, by James Hutton”
SONG: “Cells, Sensors, Silicon”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells,” Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2016,… Read the rest “SONG: Cells, Sensors, Silicon”
Nature looks high and low at the way clouds have changed since the 1980s – as global-warming models predicted:
… Read the rest “Clouds are gathering. In a weird way. At the poles.”An analysis of satellite data has found that, since the early 1980s,
This is a slug in a bottle.
To be more specific, it’s “Illustrations of the experiments of H. Regius to prove the circulation of the animal spirits in the slug.… Read the rest “Science Art: Woodcut: H. Regius proving spirits in the slug, in flask, 1654.”
Wired is thinking big about something much, much smaller than a hamster in a wheel – powering microscopic machines with “bacterial windfarms”:
… Read the rest “Bacteria movement could power tiny machines.”The natural movement
National Geographic discusses how a dig at Ashkelon, in southern Israel, might unravel who the Philistines really were – and how they might be related to the mysterious reavers known… Read the rest “Cemetery find reveals Philistine secrets.”
Science Daily reveals the hidden health benefits of sucking your thumb and biting your nails:
… Read the rest “Thumb-sucking and nail-biting gives kids allergy resistance.”The researchers [of New Zealand’s Dunedin School of Medicine, assisted by professor
This is a recreation of a weird ecosystem – one without any beef, basically. The Chinle formation, a primordial swamp in what is now New Mexico, didn’t have… Read the rest “Science Art: Clash of the Triassic Titans: Phytosaur vs. Rauisuchian, by Julio Lacerda.”
Popular Mechanics describes the rat-cell engine that powers this stingray robot:
… Read the rest “Living robot: mechanical stingray swims with rat-cell muscles.”“Roughly speaking, we made this thing with a pinch of rat cardiac cells, a pinch of breast implant,
Live Science has more on the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, a 1,500-year-old, purple-paged book that seems to have been dyed with fermented, boiled urine:
… Read the rest “Archaeologists: This New Testament is full of pee!”For centuries scholars wondered
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