We spend more time with kids than our grandparents did.
Science Daily reassures us that at least we seem to be doing *something* right. This generation is spending more time with our kids than parents […]
Month: September 2016
A three-parent baby born in Mexico.
Nature (and New Scientist) have been covering the developing story about a healthy baby boy born from genetic material supplied by three parents: Nature: Researchers […]
The sun has risen, the fish are singing….
Growing up interacting with fish called “grunts,” this doesn’t come as a huge surprise, but it’s still kind of cool. New Scientist captures the chorus […]
Science Art: Oreille schematique, from Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques, 1893.
Click to embiggen The book Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques is Alphonse Bertillon‘s guide for identifying criminal suspects. These ear dimensions were one way you […]
SONG: Gaia (1,000 Times)
SONG: “Gaia (1,000 Times)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Milky Way mapper: 6 ways the Gaia spacecraft will change astronomy,” Nature, 09 Sep 2016, as used in […]
We (mostly) came out of Africa together.
PhysOrg looks at three studies that suggest humans, for the most part, all came out of Africa in one migration more than 100 millennia ago: […]
Robot writer fools journals’ peer-review system.
Times Higher Education reveals the machines are moving beyond physical work and simple sorting, and can now fool academic gatekeepers with their composition skills… in […]
We can inherit the memory of heart attacks.
Science Daily reports on Swedish scientists who’ve found we can inherit “memories” of a heart attack: In the current [Uppsala University] study, the researchers examined […]
Science Art: Hyastenus convexus, from Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’ 1881-2.
Click to embiggen Big picture, small crab. They crawl around the sea in Japan, Australia, Borneo and the Horn of Africa. This one was drawn […]
That’s a big map.
Nature reports on the Gaia space telescope’s new map that will pinpoint more than a billion objects by the time it’s done: Gaia, a space […]
Old, oooold lady figurine found (whole!) in Neolithic city.
Daily Sabah reports on the history-making implications of a very old, quite intact figurine found at a dig in Çatalhöyük: The statuette, measuring 17 centimeters […]
A new way to catch Zika.
The Washington Post puzzles over a case of Zika in Utah that points to a new way for the virus to transmit itself: Until now, […]
Science Art: Orbital Balloon Repair (?), by Philip Bono
In 1960, we started planning to send rockets to Mars… and Philip Bono, a Boeing engineer and designer, started figuring out how they’d work, and […]
Now you can count them before they’re hatched.
Or at least sex them. Yes, so, if you’re not up on your poultry husbandry, sexing chickens is a big thing – an enormous thing. […]
Researcher tucks into a CRISPR meal.
Umeå University has more on their molecular biology professor, Stefan Jansson, who sat down to eat a CRISPR-modified pasta-and-veggie dinner to show off the technology’s […]