PhysOrg has a report on a genetically modified fungus that is capable, if released into the wild, of using spider venom to eliminate the mosquitoes that carry one of the nastiest diseases… Read the rest “A genetically weaponized fungus is getting used against malaria.”
Science Daily has word from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers, who instruct us to look for life on Mars by searching out rock formations that look like fettuccine … Read the rest “The Search for Martian Fettuccine”
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This is an image of an image of the heart – or at least an image of heart imaging. An echocardiogram done upward or downward from between the ribs beside the sternum.… Read the rest “Science Art: Heart normal parasternal long axis echocardiography view by Patrick J. Lynch”
SONG: “Bodiless”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Vox, 17 April 2019, “Scientists: We kept pig brains alive 10 hours after death. Bioethicists: ‘Holy shit.’… Read the rest “SONG: Bodiless”
Science magazine demonstrates that sharks can and will eat literally anything, up to and including songbirds that live miles inland … but migrate over the Gulf of Mexico:
… Read the rest “Sharks are eating *songbirds*.”To find
The New York Times pits man against machine in a CT-scan interpretation challenge – and the machine won. An AI got fewer false positives and fewer false negatives than a team of six … Read the rest “A computer beat doctors at diagnosing lung cancer.”
A house in space, with a big carport. Spaceport. You get the idea.
From NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Skylab Artist Concept, 1972”This illustration Skylab shows the Apollo capsule,
Wired reveals a new way to look at the stuff life relies on – and gives a reason why it could be a lot more common in outer space than we’ve thought. Water, under the right circumstances,… Read the rest “Weird water might exist across the universe – as a supersolid.”
LiveScience reports on archaeologists excavating Emperor Nero’s “golden house” – his sprawling, palatial complex underneath hills near the Colosseum –… Read the rest “Unearthing a secret chamber beneath Nero’s palace.”
Discover takes us into the geneticists’ kitchen, where they’ve isolated the gene that makes fresh tomatoes taste good – that’s missing from 93% of store-bought… Read the rest “Geneticists discover what makes grocery-store tomatoes inferior (so now they can fix it).”
We thought we were pretty clear on how dinosaurs gradually evolved into birds, developing longer fingers, stronger feathers, and all the rest of that. Now, as Smithsonian Magazine reports,… Read the rest “Bat-winged dinosaur bemuses paleontologists”
Single-celled algae, magnified 500 times.
They float in ponds and stream banks. I found them in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, in the Rev. Francis Wolle’s 1884 book Desmids … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate XIV (Cosmarium species from Desmids of the United States….”
SONG: “Facing North”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Science News, 18 Mar 2019, “People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggest,” as used in the post … Read the rest “SONG: Facing North”
The Las Cruces Sun News reports that, after years of planning, Richard Branson has finally announced that his space-tourism company is moving all operations from California to southern… Read the rest “Virgin Galactic is heading to New Mexico (at last).”
The Verge reports on a study (from Nature Human Behavior) that demonstrates that collecting all those pocket-monsters creates lasting physical changes in your brain:
… Read the rest “If you played with Pokemon as a kid, your adult brain is noticeably different: You’ve created a Pokemon brain region.”…Researchers
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