Nature‘s report seems backwards, but there it is. Researchers have found a key to reversing old age is to kill off certain decrepit cells that never reproduce and never die:
… Read the rest “Killing old age by killing off undying cells.”In a 2011
There’s not much information on the NASA Image of the Day site explaining how this visualization was made. It’s meant to show what it looks like in space when… Read the rest “Science Art: When (Neutron) Stars Collide, by NASA”
Stat News has some weird news at the intersection of business and pharmacology – a new company wants to sell a beta-blocker used for blood pressure and arrhythmia as an anti-anxiety… Read the rest “Quickie-prescription startup wants to market stage-fright pills.”
SONG: “Heaven is Our Home”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth within months,” The Guardian, 13 Oct 2017, as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: “Heaven is Our Home””
Popular Science gets the skinny on a super-thin satellite that cleans up the metal messes we leave in orbit:
… Read the rest “A spacecraft thinner than a human hair can clean up space junk”This past spring, the NIAC awarded researchers at The Aerospace Corporation
Nature explains an artificial-intelligence breakthrough, with a computer that’s learned how to win at the complicated Asian game of go without studying the strategies and past… Read the rest “An AI has learned to play go… without being taught by humans.”
But, The Guardian says, we don’t have to worry about death by 8.5 tons of space junk – probably:
… Read the rest “Tiangong-1 is falling to Earth.”China’s space agency has since notified the UN that it expects Tiangong-1 to come
Popular Science wants to help you break the smartphone habit:
… Read the rest “Stop your smartphone from hijacking your brain.”“When we let ourselves space out and let our minds wander,” [Manoush] Zomordoi writes, “we do our most original thinking and
New Scientist reviews research that shows the first governments weren’t born as a consequence of agriculture. Instead, they might have had more to do with hunger, fear, and the threat… Read the rest “The birth of city-states (and government itself) didn’t happen like we thought.”
Teeny tiny critters, hanging out in the water. They’ve got cilia in a circle, waving around their tops as if they were wheels, spinning.
A glimpse of the microscopic… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate C from The rotifera; or, Wheel-animalcules, both British and foreign, 1889”
Science News reports on studies that find the parts of your brain in charge of navigation never rests, even when you’re asleep:
… Read the rest “Your brain’s mapmaker never, ever sleeps.”Nestled in a part of the brain called the medial entorhinal
Nature has more on Navajo leaders – in charge of the second-largest Native American group in the U.S. – possibly ending 15 years of forbidding genetic studies on their people… Read the rest “Navajo nation might just let geneticists study them after all.”
The USGS Earth Explorer program shared these before-and-after pictures of Puerto Rico. The main difference that’s visible from the Landsat 8 satellite… Read the rest “Science Art: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, by Landsat 8”
NextBigFuture bigs up the Rice University researchers who added a pinch of asphalt and graphene to their batteries to create a high-capacity power source that that charges up 20 times faster… Read the rest “Battery charging got 20 times faster – by adding asphalt.”
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