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Here’s your sub-space radio: China gets quantum entanglement to work from orbit.

15 June 2017 grant 0

Science magazine reports on the latest Chinese space breakthrough – one that could lead to instant communication with distant spaceships, or hack-proof communications here on […]

How to charge an electric car on the road.

14 June 2017 grant 0

Science Daily reports on a hurdle being cleared on the way to wirelessly charging a moving electric vehicle: If electric cars could recharge while driving […]

Birds’ songs are in their genes.

13 June 2017 grant 0

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 […]

Science Art: Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear by Hoefnagel and Bocskay, 1561-2.

11 June 2017 grant 0

Wildflower and fruit, from two 16th-century Europeans. More specifically: Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear ( 1561 – 1562 ). Watercolour, gold and silver paint, and ink […]

The oldest Homo sapiens are from Morocco. And pretty darn old.

7 June 2017 grant 0

Nature turns the origins of modern humans – not Neanderthals, not Denisovans, but Homo sapiens like you and me – back more than 100,000 years, […]

Your gut bacteria could neutralize your cancer medication.

6 June 2017 grant 0

Nature looks at another way personalized treatments could save lives – by taking into account how different people’s gut bacteria affect drugs differently: Bacteria living […]

Science Art: Cassini’s view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, 2014

4 June 2017 grant 0

Click embiggen So much depends on perspective. Image from the European Space Agency – taken by Cassini on its way to Saturn, and doing a […]

Soft exosuit boosts runners’ performance

3 June 2017 grant 0

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 […]

“Complexity and nuance required”: a conservative ecologist.

3 June 2017 grant 0

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 […]

Air pollution may be four times worse than we thought. (In Europe, at least.)

31 May 2017 grant 0

Science Daily takes a deeper look at the problems with car and truck exhaust fumes: Environmental protection and health agencies base their air pollution management […]

New cancer drug fights tumors based on its genes, not its location.

29 May 2017 grant 0

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 […]

Science Art: Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery: Polished Red – p. 1-22

28 May 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen Silhouettes of polished redware from the Ancient Egyptian (or, really, older than Ancient Egyptian) Naqada culture. That’s about 5,500 years old, a […]

Plasma jet engines: Taking us to space without burning fuel

25 May 2017 grant 0

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: […]

SONG: Facts Will Save Us All

24 May 2017 grant 0

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 […]

Mouse sperm survive in space.

23 May 2017 grant 0

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 […]

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