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 […]
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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 […]
Science Art: Mummy Portrait of a Woman (73.AP.91), attributed to Malibu Painter.
Click to embiggen The Malibu Painter, who probably painted this, was not active in California’s surf culture, but in Egypt around the time the first […]
Good picture of dark matter.
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 […]
We’ve edited the genes of human embryos now.
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 […]
Bacteria could rid the South Pacific of mosquitoes within a decade.
Nature has more on a Tahitian lab’s plan to use Wolbachia bacteria to wipe out mosquitoes: The mosquito problem could be solved in the Society […]
Science Art: 1. Papilio Memnon? 2. Pap. Aeneas
Click to embiggen Butterflies of South Asia and Central and South America. Pretty butterflies. Or, as James Duncan and Sir William Jardine called them, Foreign […]
Babies’ brain cells add years to mice’s lives.
Nature is absolutely not trying to cause any panic with news that injecting baby brain cells into older mice keep them younger and healthier longer: […]
Does your tunnel come after the white light?
Science Daily investigates the process of dying – or rather, Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). Although people report very similar NDEs across cultures – looking down at […]
50 years ago, Surtsey Island came into being. Now, we’re drilling to find out how.
Nature reports on scientists with big drills in Iceland, trying to find out how it was that Surtsey Island came rising up from the ocean […]
SONG: I Had A Fever
SONG: “I Had A Fever”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Can Microbes Encourage Altruism?,” Scientific American, 17 Jul 2017, as used in the post “Does kindness come from […]
Amateurs find a nearby star by looking through pro astronomers’ old data.
There’s a thing in Australia called “noodling,” where hobbyists look through opal mine spoil piles and find overlooked bits of precious stones. Syfy Wire has […]