Tiny antennas make brain implants a little more possible.
Nature explores the possibilities of, in not so many words, putting electronic receivers in our brains: Metal antennas that send and receive TV signals and […]
Month: August 2017
FDA labels Ecstasy a “breakthrough therapy,” accelerates testing.
Science magazine celebrates the fast-tracking of studies on MDMA, the once-notorious rave drug that’s now on the verge of being approved to tread PTSD and […]
Civil War submarine mystery solved
Nature reports on researchers who have determined that the Confederate Navy’s Hunley – the first submarine to sink an enemy warship – probably sank itself […]
Science Art: Engine, by ESA
Click to embiggen The European Space Agency has a way with names. This is in their image library as “Engine.” The description offers little more […]
SONG: Frozen Atmospheres
SONG: “Frozen Atmospheres”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Record-shattering 2.7-million-year-old ice core reveals start of the ice ages,” Science, 15 Aug 2017, as used in the post “2.7 […]
NASA’s got a plan to save us from supervolcanoes – by using them for power.
BBC has more on the planet-spanning threat of supervolcanoes – like the one under Yellowstone that’s about due for a continent-shaking eruption – and their […]
Science Art: Sea Lamprey Larvae in Hand 2, by R. McDaniels, Great Lakes Fishery Commission.
Click to embiggen Fans of Roderick on the Line may recognize these as living metaphors for modern marketing offers. But they’re invading the Great Lakes […]
They drank bad water in Pompeii.
EurekAlert has research from the University of Southern Denmark on just how doomed Pompeii really was. Not only was that volcano about to engulf the […]
2.7 million-year-old ice shatters records, reveals ancient atmospheres – and ice ages.
(Plural intended.) Science magazine looks back at lots of tiny, tiny pockets of the distant past – with a deep ice core that contains samples […]
Rising CO2 levels mean we’ll get less protein from our grain crops.
Science Daily has one for the “Yeah. Great.” file – research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health showing that the rising carbon […]
Gene editing brings pig-to-human organ transplants one step closer.
Science magazine mulls over new research showing how CRISPR gene editing successfully got rid of PERVs – porcine endogenous retroviruses – and made it that […]
Science Art: Theorica Eclipsis Solaris, by Georg von Peurbach.
This is a diagram of how a solar eclipse works, or at least how they thought one worked in the 14th century. It might be […]
Antibacterial soap could be messing up our unborn babies.
Science Daily gives us research from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that show that the active ingredient in antibacterial soap can pass from mother to child […]
DNA is rewriting humans’ family tree… again.
PhysOrg looks back at our misunderstood ancestors with a University of Utah team that has revealed more about how – and when – Denisovans and […]
Jordan: Techno-utopia.
Nature reports on Jordan’s new push to make itself into the future scientific powerhouse of the Middle East: Jordan’s leaders see science, engineering and technology […]