We can inherit the memory of heart attacks.
Science Daily reports on Swedish scientists who’ve found we can inherit “memories” of a heart attack: In the current [Uppsala University] study, the researchers examined […]
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Science Art: Hyastenus convexus, from Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’ 1881-2.
Click to embiggen Big picture, small crab. They crawl around the sea in Japan, Australia, Borneo and the Horn of Africa. This one was drawn […]
That’s a big map.
Nature reports on the Gaia space telescope’s new map that will pinpoint more than a billion objects by the time it’s done: Gaia, a space […]
Old, oooold lady figurine found (whole!) in Neolithic city.
Daily Sabah reports on the history-making implications of a very old, quite intact figurine found at a dig in Çatalhöyük: The statuette, measuring 17 centimeters […]
A new way to catch Zika.
The Washington Post puzzles over a case of Zika in Utah that points to a new way for the virus to transmit itself: Until now, […]
Science Art: Orbital Balloon Repair (?), by Philip Bono
In 1960, we started planning to send rockets to Mars… and Philip Bono, a Boeing engineer and designer, started figuring out how they’d work, and […]
Now you can count them before they’re hatched.
Or at least sex them. Yes, so, if you’re not up on your poultry husbandry, sexing chickens is a big thing – an enormous thing. […]
Researcher tucks into a CRISPR meal.
Umeå University has more on their molecular biology professor, Stefan Jansson, who sat down to eat a CRISPR-modified pasta-and-veggie dinner to show off the technology’s […]
Fracking reveals new genus of bacteria.
Science Daily reports on the hitherto-unknown genus of germs dubbed “Frackibacter,” after its disrupted shale-oil habitat: The new genus is one of the 31 microbial […]
Science Art: Dressing for Altitude, NASA.
Click to embiggen This is an image from this NASA eBook on high-flying fashions: Although space suits, which differ from pressure suits in subtle, but […]
Ptiny Pterosaurs
Nature introduces a little guy who’s upending the way we think about the age of dinosaurs… a time when pterosaurs ruled the skies with 10-meter […]
Mummy’s got a new face, thanks to 3D printing
Live Science takes a long look at an Egyptian mummy whose face has been reconstructed using 3D printing to turn back time: The mummified head […]
A “strong signal” has SETI excited.
Ars Technica has a cautiously not-quite-freaked-out-yet look at what radio astronomers think might well be evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization: According to Paul Glister, author […]
Science Art: Your Gifted Child frontispiece, 1958
This is how parents in the 50s were expected to conceptualize their bright, nonconformist children – as happy, well-groomed chemists. Then the 60s happened. From […]
There’s an Earth-like planet right next door.
Howdy, neighbor! Nature sets our sights on the planet just like ours orbiting Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor: Proxima Centauri, the star closest to […]