This is how an alga (that’s how it’s spelled in the book) reproduces. It looks like an underwater nasturtium.
Here, it’s being used to demonstrate what exactly RNA is… Read the rest “Science Art: The Life Cycle of Acetabularia mediterranea, 1960.”
Nature braces for the fun in the gene labs, as CRISPR paves the way to recreate bygone creatures:
… Read the rest “Prepare to make prehistoric monsters”The precise, efficient CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique has already taken life-sciences
Xinhua reports on the discovery of a Spanish henge – concentric circles of stones probably assembled to define a ritual space about 4,500 years ago:
… Read the rest “Stone circle found in Seville”The discovery covers an area of
Nature examines the recent increase the availability of pot to American researchers:
… Read the rest “America pushes pot to researchers. (And it’s a good thing.)”[D]espite the increasing availability of legal marijuana, scientists have been forced to obtain
Fish, in families. Fish, in schools.
These are all ray-finned fishes, on a chart showing how they became more diverse from the Devonian period (when oceans were the “in” places… Read the rest “Science Art: Patterns of taxonomic and morphological diversification in early ray-finned fishes, M. Friedman.”
It was 1744, Nature reports, when this sleepy, small-headed Somniosus microcephalus … when this long-swimming, short-sighted Greenland shark came into the world – if not… Read the rest “This shark is older than the United States.”
I try to avoid politics, but the science behind this is really kind of fascinating. Over at Variance Explained, David Robinson used a bunch of data-mining tools – including a technique… Read the rest “Data analysts figure out Trump tweets: politics, technology, “angry” words and hashtags.”
Reuters tells the story behind the one-time spy airship entering civilian service as “the flying bum”:
… Read the rest “The world’s most embarrassingly shaped airship is debuting in England.”The Airlander 10, known in Britain as ‘the flying bum’
Nature goes out to the country to track the spread of TB (an unpleasant and expensive disease) by looking at how badgers meet cows… or really really don’t:
… Read the rest “Scientists track elusive badger-cow encounters.”Since 2013, the UK’s
These are the feet of prehistoric humans – little feet of children, big feet of adults. Actually, it’s an infographic based on a photograph based on rather well-preserved … Read the rest “Science Art: Vertical Image of Area A at Happisburgh, from “Hominin Footprints from Early Pleistocene Deposits at Happisburgh, UK,” 2014.”
PhysOrg is offering a tub of hot, buttered aesthetic vindication with its survey revealing that high education correlates with a love for awful movies:
… Read the rest “Highly educated audiences prefer trash films.”However, with three sequels and
The Verge has some photos of – and the story behind – the new, tunnel-like city bus that cars can drive under in traffic:
… Read the rest “There’s a tunnel-bus driving the streets of China.”According to China’s Xinhua News, the TEB-1, or Transit
Scientific American (and notable author Rowan Jacobsen) reports on the dry, dry nation of Israel creating a water surplus by making the sea drinkable:
… Read the rest “Drinking the ocean.”Desal works by pushing saltwater
This is a cartoon – a *funny* cartoon from about a hundred years before smartphones became a thing.
We knew what they would do to us. Even then, we knew.
It was published… Read the rest “Science Art: Forecasts for 1907, Punch Magazine, 1906.”
Nature fearlessly plunges into our nostrils in search of bacteria that can kill MRSA:
… Read the rest “A superbug antibiotic… that comes out of our noses?”The potential new soldier in the fight against MRSA is a molecule called lugdunin produced by the bacterium
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