Live Science takes a long look at an Egyptian mummy whose face has been reconstructed using 3D printing to turn back time:
… Read the rest “Mummy’s got a new face, thanks to 3D printing”The mummified head was discovered by accident in the collections
Ars Technica has a cautiously not-quite-freaked-out-yet look at what radio astronomers think might well be evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization:
… Read the rest “A “strong signal” has SETI excited.”According to Paul Glister,
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 a helpful, U.S.… Read the rest “Science Art: Your Gifted Child frontispiece, 1958”
Howdy, neighbor! Nature sets our sights on the planet just like ours orbiting Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor:
… Read the rest “There’s an Earth-like planet right next door.”Proxima Centauri, the star closest to the Sun, has an Earth-sized
SONG: “Turn Me Back”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “CRISPR’s hopeful monsters: gene-editing storms evo-devo labs,” Nature, 17 Aug 2016, as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: Turn Me Back”
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 DISCO” to prepare mice… Read the rest “So we’re shrinking animals and making them transparent. Like, in real life.”
Hawaii Tribune-Herald marks the anticipated end of the year-long simulated Mars mission inside an old quarry:
… Read the rest “Hawaii prepares to welcome first astronauts back from “Mars.””At 8,200 feet above sea level, the landscape mimics Martian soil somewhat,
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 what exactly RNA is… Read the rest “Science Art: The Life Cycle of Acetabularia mediterranea, 1960.”
Nature braces for the fun in the gene labs, as CRISPR paves the way to recreate bygone creatures:
… Read the rest “Prepare to make prehistoric monsters”The precise, efficient CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique has already taken life-sciences
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:
… Read the rest “Stone circle found in Seville”The discovery covers an area of
Nature examines the recent increase the availability of pot to American researchers:
… Read the rest “America pushes pot to researchers. (And it’s a good thing.)”[D]espite the increasing availability of legal marijuana, scientists have been forced to obtain
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 oceans were the “in” places… Read the rest “Science Art: Patterns of taxonomic and morphological diversification in early ray-finned fishes, M. Friedman.”
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… Read the rest “This shark is older than the United States.”
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 data-mining tools – including a technique… Read the rest “Data analysts figure out Trump tweets: politics, technology, “angry” words and hashtags.”
Reuters tells the story behind the one-time spy airship entering civilian service as “the flying bum”:
… Read the rest “The world’s most embarrassingly shaped airship is debuting in England.”The Airlander 10, known in Britain as ‘the flying bum’
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