Air pollution may be four times worse than we thought. (In Europe, at least.)
Science Daily takes a deeper look at the problems with car and truck exhaust fumes: Environmental protection and health agencies base their air pollution management […]
Science Daily takes a deeper look at the problems with car and truck exhaust fumes: Environmental protection and health agencies base their air pollution management […]
Nature heralds a new, genetic weapon in our arsenal against cancer, be it pancreatic, lung, skin or liver. This is a cancer treatment based on […]
Click to embiggen Silhouettes of polished redware from the Ancient Egyptian (or, really, older than Ancient Egyptian) Naqada culture. That’s about 5,500 years old, a […]
New Scientist is launching our hopes higher than ever with a report on a whole new electric engine that can carry a plane to space: […]
SONG: “Facts Will Save Us All” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove,” New York Times, 17 Apr 2017, as […]
Science News reports that DNA is tough stuff, and reproductive cells that were freeze-dried and subjected to months of solar radiation came back home just […]
Popular Science is trying to calm folks down following hyped-up reports that the seed vault (previously sung about here) containing precious samples of all our […]
This is Litchi chinensis, 荔枝, the lychee, sometimes called a “lychee nut” although it’s not nut-like at all. It’s more like a muscadine (tough skin, […]
SONG: “Another Girl, Another Planet” [Download] (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the […]
Nature reveals the new growth of ambitious plans to cool the planet with wooden skyscrapers: Constructed almost entirely from timber in 2014, the 8-storey, 30-metre […]
Sounds almost medieval, doesn’t it? But no, it’s not the vapors. BBC shows how dormant viruses and bacteria are waking up after centuries or even […]
Click to embiggen “Internal view of a Pratt & Whitney J58 afterburner and exhaust nozzle.” Found on Wikimedia Commons.
New Scientist has the creepy story of a parasitic worm that controls fish behavior by controlling how they see the world: When the parasite is […]
Nature shines new light on a very old hominid – “Neo,” the ape-like Homo naledi who may have coexisted with early modern humans: H. naledi […]
Click to embiggen This is the head and neck of a raven, Corvus corax sinuatus, as dissected and drawn by Robert W. Shufeldt. I look […]
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