Scientific American is looking at what exactly the Tennessee wildfires might mean for our changing planet:
… Read the rest “Wildfires “Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen””A prolonged drought that has engulfed much of the Southeast created conditions
Nature reports on a critter in Iceland’s hot springs that binds silicon to carbon – which could lead to all sorts of weird breakthroughs:
… Read the rest “These germs join carbon to silicon.”Researchers have learned to bind carbon
Someone went to the museum today. This has always been one of my favorite bits of human anatomy, the spirals inside our sinuses. Evolutionarily, they say they’re… Read the rest “Science Art: Oral Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses – Coronal View exhibit, from Our Body: The Universe Within”
This cover came out in March this year, celebrating the anniversary of New Order’s 1983 hit. The idea was to remake the groundbreaking electronic song only using instruments –… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: “Blue Monday” by Orkestra Obsolete (New Order cover)”
SONG: “Blood is Family”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Small Island, Big Experiment,” FiveThirtyEight Science, Oct 2016, as used in the post “Florida Keys… Read the rest “SONG: Blood is Family”
Popular Mechanics celebrates a plan to turn the nuclear disaster zone into a 1-gigawatt solar farm:
… Read the rest “Chernobyl goes solar.”The high levels of radiation make the zone unsuitable for typical land uses like agriculture
Live Science looks over thousands of inscriptions from 2,000 years ago, opening a window to a time when this arid, sandy landscape was once filled with people, animals and trees:
… Read the rest “Jordan’s Black Desert was once bustling with life”“Nowadays,
Aren’t they the cutest little things?
These are kinds of Euglena, the weird little microscopic critters that are animals with plant-like characteristics – some of them can… Read the rest “Science Art: “Various Forms of Trachelomonas” (detail of “INFUSORIA”), 1883”
Washington Post checks the results from a NYU researcher’s experiment using bots to prevent racial harassment on Twitter – and what automated anti-racism says about how … Read the rest “How a Twitter-bot can stop harassment: a study in social programming”
Science Daily reports on the cybernetic insects that can be used alongside drones to quickly map out unfamiliar terrain:
… Read the rest “Insect biobots are ready to respond to disasters.”“The idea would be to release a swarm of sensor-equipped
New Scientist has an anti-aging discovery with some grisly ramifications, as researchers find the blood of human teens can make aging bodies young again:
… Read the rest “Young people’s blood plasma rejuvenates old mice.”The key to youth appears to be in
Nature reports on gene-editing technology that’s being used for the first time in human beings:
… Read the rest “China’s used CRISPR in human subjects, to treat cancer.”On 28 October, a team led by oncologist Lu You at Sichuan University in Chengdu delivered
The Telegraph reports on multimillionaire mine-operator Victorino Alonso’s demolition of a 10,000-year-old archaeological site, an act courts have described as a “crime… Read the rest “Spain’s “King of Coal” jailed for destroying Neolithic site.”
This might look like a jet plane’s engine, but it’s really a thing to test jet planes – supersonic ones. It’s a really big fan (with wooden blades!)… Read the rest “Science Art: 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel, 1990”
Just a short note (from a Fusion story), but one kind of overlooked story from election day is that the Florida Keys approved releasing genetically modified anti-Zika mosquitoes:
… Read the rest “GMO mosquitoes will fly. Probably.”On Tuesday,
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