Mummy’s got a new face, thanks to 3D printing
Live Science takes a long look at an Egyptian mummy whose face has been reconstructed using 3D printing to turn back time: The mummified head […]
Month: August 2016
A “strong signal” has SETI excited.
Ars Technica has a cautiously not-quite-freaked-out-yet look at what radio astronomers think might well be evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization: According to Paul Glister, author […]
Science Art: Your Gifted Child frontispiece, 1958
This is how parents in the 50s were expected to conceptualize their bright, nonconformist children – as happy, well-groomed chemists. Then the 60s happened. From […]
There’s an Earth-like planet right next door.
Howdy, neighbor! Nature sets our sights on the planet just like ours orbiting Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor: Proxima Centauri, the star closest to […]
SONG: Turn Me Back
SONG: “Turn Me Back”. [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “CRISPR’s hopeful monsters: gene-editing storms evo-devo labs,” Nature, 17 Aug 2016, as used in the post “Prepare […]
So we’re shrinking animals and making them transparent. Like, in real life.
Nature Methods has the details on a process that seems totally like 1950s B-movie technology with a 1970s sci-fi name – a system called “ultimate […]
Hawaii prepares to welcome first astronauts back from “Mars.”
Hawaii Tribune-Herald marks the anticipated end of the year-long simulated Mars mission inside an old quarry: At 8,200 feet above sea level, the landscape mimics […]
Science Art: The Life Cycle of Acetabularia mediterranea, 1960.
This is how an alga (that’s how it’s spelled in the book) reproduces. It looks like an underwater nasturtium. Here, it’s being used to demonstrate […]
Prepare to make prehistoric monsters
Nature braces for the fun in the gene labs, as CRISPR paves the way to recreate bygone creatures: The precise, efficient CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique has […]
Stone circle found in Seville
Xinhua reports on the discovery of a Spanish henge – concentric circles of stones probably assembled to define a ritual space about 4,500 years ago: […]
America pushes pot to researchers. (And it’s a good thing.)
Nature examines the recent increase the availability of pot to American researchers: [D]espite the increasing availability of legal marijuana, scientists have been forced to obtain […]
Science Art: Patterns of taxonomic and morphological diversification in early ray-finned fishes, M. Friedman.
Fish, in families. Fish, in schools. These are all ray-finned fishes, on a chart showing how they became more diverse from the Devonian period (when […]
This shark is older than the United States.
It was 1744, Nature reports, when this sleepy, small-headed Somniosus microcephalus … when this long-swimming, short-sighted Greenland shark came into the world – if not […]
Data analysts figure out Trump tweets: politics, technology, “angry” words and hashtags.
I try to avoid politics, but the science behind this is really kind of fascinating. Over at Variance Explained, David Robinson used a bunch of […]
The world’s most embarrassingly shaped airship is debuting in England.
Reuters tells the story behind the one-time spy airship entering civilian service as “the flying bum”: The Airlander 10, known in Britain as ‘the flying […]