Popular Science is trying to figure out if you can teach a robin to sing like a swallow, or a warbler to tweet like a canary… and, as far as researchers David Wheatcroft & Anna Qvarnström… Read the rest “Birds’ songs are in their genes.”
Wildflower and fruit, from two 16th-century Europeans.
More specifically:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear by Hoefnagel and Bocskay, 1561-2.”Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear ( 1561 – 1562 ).
Watercolour, gold and silver paint, and ink on parchment
Nature turns the origins of modern humans – not Neanderthals, not Denisovans, but Homo sapiens like you and me – back more than 100,000 years, and a long way from where they should… Read the rest “The oldest Homo sapiens are from Morocco. And pretty darn old.”
Nature looks at another way personalized treatments could save lives – by taking into account how different people’s gut bacteria affect drugs differently:
… Read the rest “Your gut bacteria could neutralize your cancer medication.”Bacteria living
So much depends on perspective.
Image from the European Space Agency – taken by Cassini on its way to Saturn, and doing a little prep work, a little early investigating,… Read the rest “Science Art: Cassini’s view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, 2014”
Science Daily gets muscle augmentation away from the whole “real-life Iron Man” thing with news of what looks like a pair of robotic shorts… a hip-helping soft, tethered… Read the rest “Soft exosuit boosts runners’ performance”
This isn’t really research, but does speak to what this site has been doing (or pointing at) for the past nine years… so I wanted you, gentle reader, to spend a moment with this.… Read the rest ““Complexity and nuance required”: a conservative ecologist.”
Science Daily takes a deeper look at the problems with car and truck exhaust fumes:
… Read the rest “Air pollution may be four times worse than we thought. (In Europe, at least.)”Environmental protection and health agencies base their air pollution management on atmospheric models
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 the cancer’s genetic makeup, not what… Read the rest “New cancer drug fights tumors based on its genes, not its location.”
Silhouettes of polished redware from the Ancient Egyptian (or, really, older than Ancient Egyptian) Naqada culture. That’s about 5,500 years old, a mere century… Read the rest “Science Art: Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery: Polished Red – p. 1-22”
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:
… Read the rest “Plasma jet engines: Taking us to space without burning fuel”Traditional jet engines create thrust by mixing compressed
SONG: “Facts Will Save Us All”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove,” New York Times, 17 Apr 2017, as used in the post “Microsoft’s… Read the rest “SONG: Facts Will Save Us All”
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 fine:
… Read the rest “Mouse sperm survive in space.”If humans ever embark on
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 food crops was flooded:… Read the rest “OK – Svalbard is just fine.”
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, sweet juiciness)… Read the rest “Science Art: Lychee, from Flora Sinensis, 1656.”
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