Wildfires “Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen”
Scientific American is looking at what exactly the Tennessee wildfires might mean for our changing planet: A prolonged drought that has engulfed much of the […]
Month: November 2016
These germs join carbon to silicon.
Nature reports on a critter in Iceland’s hot springs that binds silicon to carbon – which could lead to all sorts of weird breakthroughs: Researchers […]
Science Art: Oral Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses – Coronal View exhibit, from Our Body: The Universe Within
Click to embiggen Someone went to the museum today. This has always been one of my favorite bits of human anatomy, the spirals inside our […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: “Blue Monday” by Orkestra Obsolete (New Order cover)
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 […]
SONG: Blood is Family
SONG: “Blood is Family”. [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Small Island, Big Experiment,” FiveThirtyEight Science, Oct 2016, as used in the post “Florida Keys voting on […]
Chernobyl goes solar.
Popular Mechanics celebrates a plan to turn the nuclear disaster zone into a 1-gigawatt solar farm: The high levels of radiation make the zone unsuitable […]
Jordan’s Black Desert was once bustling with life
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 […]
Science Art: “Various Forms of Trachelomonas” (detail of “INFUSORIA”), 1883
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 […]
How a Twitter-bot can stop harassment: a study in social programming
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 […]
Insect biobots are ready to respond to disasters.
Science Daily reports on the cybernetic insects that can be used alongside drones to quickly map out unfamiliar terrain: “The idea would be to release […]
Young people’s blood plasma rejuvenates old mice.
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: The […]
China’s used CRISPR in human subjects, to treat cancer.
Nature reports on gene-editing technology that’s being used for the first time in human beings: On 28 October, a team led by oncologist Lu You […]
Spain’s “King of Coal” jailed for destroying Neolithic site.
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 against heritage”: The […]
Science Art: 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel, 1990
Click to embiggen This might look like a jet plane’s engine, but it’s really a thing to test jet planes – supersonic ones. It’s a […]
GMO mosquitoes will fly. Probably.
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 […]