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 idea to … Read the rest “NASA’s got a plan to save us from supervolcanoes – by using them for power.”
Fans of Roderick on the Line may recognize these as living metaphors for modern marketing offers. But they’re invading the Great Lakes (literally) where they grow… Read the rest “Science Art: Sea Lamprey Larvae in Hand 2, by R. McDaniels, Great Lakes Fishery Commission.”
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 city, but the citizens were probably … Read the rest “They drank bad water in Pompeii.”
(Plural intended.) Science magazine looks back at lots of tiny, tiny pockets of the distant past – with a deep ice core that contains samples of our changing atmosphere for 2.7 million… Read the rest “2.7 million-year-old ice shatters records, reveals ancient atmospheres – and ice ages.”
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 dioxide levels linked … Read the rest “Rising CO2 levels mean we’ll get less protein from our grain crops.”
Science magazine mulls over new research showing how CRISPR gene editing successfully got rid of PERVs – porcine endogenous retroviruses – and made it that much easier to … Read the rest “Gene editing brings pig-to-human organ transplants one step closer.”
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 one of the very first illustrations of its kind. As explained by the book’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Theorica Eclipsis Solaris, by Georg von Peurbach.”
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 and interfere with… Read the rest “Antibacterial soap could be messing up our unborn babies.”
PhysOrg looks back at our misunderstood ancestors with a University of Utah team that has revealed more about how – and when – Denisovans and Neanderthals split from each other,… Read the rest “DNA is rewriting humans’ family tree… again.”
Nature reports on Jordan’s new push to make itself into the future scientific powerhouse of the Middle East:
… Read the rest “Jordan: Techno-utopia.”Jordan’s leaders see science, engineering and technology as an engine
The Malibu Painter, who probably painted this, was not active in California’s surf culture, but in Egypt around the time the first Christians started showing up.… Read the rest “Science Art: Mummy Portrait of a Woman (73.AP.91), attributed to Malibu Painter.”
Science Daily gets us a better look than ever before at how much dark matter is out there, where it is, and what it’s doing out there:
… Read the rest “Good picture of dark matter.”In a presentation today at the American Physical
Nature has the story of an international team led by Portland-based reproductive biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov, who used CRISPR gene-editing to erase a potentially fatal heart ailment… Read the rest “We’ve edited the genes of human embryos now.”
Nature has more on a Tahitian lab’s plan to use Wolbachia bacteria to wipe out mosquitoes:
… Read the rest “Bacteria could rid the South Pacific of mosquitoes within a decade.”The mosquito problem could be solved in the Society Islands — a part of French Polynesia that
Butterflies of South Asia and Central and South America.
Pretty butterflies. Or, as James Duncan and Sir William Jardine called them, Foreign Butterflies.
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