Nature reports on China’s new research venture, sending the Monkey King rocket (they do have the best names in China) out to solve some scientific mysteries:
… Read the rest “Monkey King goes in search of dark matter.”China’s first space-based
Ars Technica looks at something funny out beyond the orbit of Pluto – a thing that’s practically invisible, but that maybe a really, really big planet 10:
… Read the rest “*Is* there something past Pluto?”Research groups from
New Scientist doesn’t usually hype the headline too much, so one gets concerned when they say that germs can now resist another “last-resort” antibiotic:
… Read the rest ““Last-resort” antibiotic beaten by resistant bugs globally.”Bacteria
I found this elegant (if obscure) glassware at the public domain image repository at Reusable Art.
I’m guessing it was used to detect poisons more so than to examine tea, but I honestly… Read the rest “Science Art: From Legal Chemistry: A Guide to the Detection of Poisons, Examination of Tea, Stains, Etc., 1884.”
Nature reveals the existence of transgenic chickens, modified to produce drugs in their eggs:
… Read the rest “Chickens that lay medicine are here.”The drug, Kanuma (sebelipase alfa), is a recombinant human enzyme marketed by Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
Outside has an interesting look at unintended consequences, examining a University of Colorado study into why bike-helmet laws increase injuries:
… Read the rest “Bike helmets save lives. Bike helmet *laws* hurt people.”Studies show that the laws deter people
MedXpress details the chromosome damage that seems to be caused by economic inequality; in other words, the more educated you are, the more protected your baby is against chromosome damage… Read the rest “The less educated the mother, the shorter the newborn’s telomeres.”
Sport Illustrated has some great science news today, reporting on the British astronaut who’s running the London Marathon in orbit (on a treadmill):
… Read the rest “Running a marathon on the International Space Station.”[Tim] Peake will be a part of
The Space Launch System (SLS) is the rocket that NASA plans to send to asteroids and, eventually, to Mars. It’s a big rocket. The most powerful ever built.
Well, once… Read the rest “Science Art: Space Launch System Takes Flight”
Scientific American recently published a gift guide with no stuff it – just research showing how to be a better gift-giver:
… Read the rest “Be a better gift-giver – with psychological research.”A 2009 study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Not that New Scientist wants you to worry about what your exercise routine could be doing to your memory. Just that researchers have found ultra-marathoners’ brains are measurably… Read the rest “Long-distance runners’ brains shrink.”
National Geographic marvels at a huge number of very large footprints on the Scottish coast:
… Read the rest “Dinosaurs walked in Scotland”The footprints form the largest dinosaur site ever found in Scotland. They also show that sauropods,
Science Daily has more on the threat climate change poses to our oxygen supply:
… Read the rest “Don’t worry about global warming flooding! Worry about suffocation.”A study led by Sergei Petrovskii, Professor in Applied Mathematics from the University of Leicester’s
Nature looks at a new ketamine study of the brains of people who attempted suicide:
… Read the rest “Searching the brain for reasons for suicide – using ketamine.”Fewer than 10% of people with depression attempt suicide, and about 10% of those who kill themselves were
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