Live Science looks over thousands of inscriptions from 2,000 years ago, opening a window to a time when this arid, sandy landscape was once filled with people, animals and trees:
… Read the rest “Jordan’s Black Desert was once bustling with life”“Nowadays,
Aren’t they the cutest little things?
These are kinds of Euglena, the weird little microscopic critters that are animals with plant-like characteristics – some of them can… Read the rest “Science Art: “Various Forms of Trachelomonas” (detail of “INFUSORIA”), 1883”
Washington Post checks the results from a NYU researcher’s experiment using bots to prevent racial harassment on Twitter – and what automated anti-racism says about how … Read the rest “How a Twitter-bot can stop harassment: a study in social programming”
Science Daily reports on the cybernetic insects that can be used alongside drones to quickly map out unfamiliar terrain:
… Read the rest “Insect biobots are ready to respond to disasters.”“The idea would be to release a swarm of sensor-equipped
New Scientist has an anti-aging discovery with some grisly ramifications, as researchers find the blood of human teens can make aging bodies young again:
… Read the rest “Young people’s blood plasma rejuvenates old mice.”The key to youth appears to be in
Nature reports on gene-editing technology that’s being used for the first time in human beings:
… Read the rest “China’s used CRISPR in human subjects, to treat cancer.”On 28 October, a team led by oncologist Lu You at Sichuan University in Chengdu delivered
The Telegraph reports on multimillionaire mine-operator Victorino Alonso’s demolition of a 10,000-year-old archaeological site, an act courts have described as a “crime… Read the rest “Spain’s “King of Coal” jailed for destroying Neolithic site.”
This might look like a jet plane’s engine, but it’s really a thing to test jet planes – supersonic ones. It’s a really big fan (with wooden blades!)… Read the rest “Science Art: 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel, 1990”
Just a short note (from a Fusion story), but one kind of overlooked story from election day is that the Florida Keys approved releasing genetically modified anti-Zika mosquitoes:
… Read the rest “GMO mosquitoes will fly. Probably.”On Tuesday,
Popular Science looks at the the backyard engineering that goes into an effective homemade military drone:
… Read the rest “So ISIS is using homemade drones. Here’s how they work.”To better understand ISIS drones, I spoke with an investigator at Conflict Armament
This is a turbine – a “turbopropulseur” – used as an example of a “réducteur” – a reducing gear. The one end spins a lot more than the other end… Read the rest “Science Art: Schéma de montage d’un turbopropulseur by Nerijp”
Nature looks into the future of Africa and sees a sunny outlook – at least as far as solar and wind power generation go:
… Read the rest “World Power: How Africa can leapfrog the world with renewable energy.”Africa’s population is booming faster than anywhere in
Siberian Times looks at the things that people thought were precious before people were Homo sapiens – a trove of Denisovan jewelry made from such exotic materials as ostrich eggshells… Read the rest “Caveman jewelry: Ostrich eggs in Siberia?”
FiveThirtyEight Science has an in-depth article on a genetic reponse to the Zika threat and the scientific stakes of ballots cast in Florida’s southernmost county:
… Read the rest “Florida Keys voting on genetically-modified mosquito plan.”This unusual
Prehistoric life, today’s exercises.
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