Nature reports on Chinese researchers who found a way to make the body get rid of cancer — by disguising tumors as transplanted pig organs, so the body rejects them:
… Read the rest “Tricking the immune system into attacking tumors.”Immunologist and
Science Daily has news from Colorado State chemical researchers, who’ve found an adhesive that does the work of superglue, but is “biodegradable, tunable, and reusable”… Read the rest “Sustainable superglue.”
This delightful diagram appears on a page of A New Astronomy For Beginners that also has an almanac of “Important Future Eclipses” from 1898 (January 22, East African and India)… Read the rest “Science Art: Earth’s Shadow and Penumbra in Sections, 1898.”
Nautilus looks at the long-term effects of famine — and finds that extreme hunger can affect the bodies of future generations:
… Read the rest “You are what your great-grandparents didn’t eat”To conduct their research, [Tulane pediatric nephrologist
Science News shares an analysis of the human hippocampus from a computer-designer’s standpoint, finding that though the network of brain-cell connections are relatively sparse,… Read the rest “Sparse but robust: Brains are wired to maximize memory.”
Science News puts some important context around the January 6 death of a 65-year-old Louisiana man who caught the virus from his backyard chickens:
… Read the rest “The first American to die of H5N1 avian flu”Since early 2024, there have been 66 confirmed
BBC has news of a discovery (yet to be confirmed, likely accurate) made using a combination of historical knowledge and ground-penetrating radar that shows how the technologically advanced… Read the rest “Roman battlefield (probably) discovered in the U.K.”
The word “halcyon,” meaning “calm, idyllic, happy times” came from the Greek name for these little guys, who were said to bring, well, halcyon days. I suppose… Read the rest “Science Art: Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon Boie), 1898”
Notebook Check reports optimistically on a vanadium battery breakthrough that stands to make sodium-ion batteries, which rely on cheap minerals, a real competitor for the relatively… Read the rest “Cheaper sodium batteries are getting better.”
KFF Health News has a not-so-cheerful outlook on the US national health services in an article about livestock farms with a headline that starts “How America lost control of the bird… Read the rest “Ready for the next pandemic? Check with your local farmers.”
It was this photograph’s anniversary today, or so said Robert McNees, posting on Bluesky’s science-communication feed.
On the 29th of December, 1888, a Welsh businessman,… Read the rest “Science Art: Andromeda Galaxy, by Isaac Roberts, 1888.”
Reuters reveals the discovery of 27 new species in the Peruvian Amazon, including a strange species of amphibious mice:
… Read the rest “There are amphibious mice in the Amazon.”Scientists also discovered a spiny mouse, a squirrel, eight types
Advances in Space Research has a novel idea for a Martian lander. Instead of mapping out the likeliest landing spot from way down here on Earth well ahead of time, a lander could be equipped… Read the rest “Mars lander following its nose”
SONG: “Two Wolves Inside Us” . (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Ecology, 14 Nov 2024, “Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves… Read the rest “SONG: Two Wolves Inside Us”
This is an image from “the birth of photomicrography.” It’s also an image from the fondly remembered Omni magazine, an issue from 1978 which I found on archive.org. … Read the rest “Science Art: Cross Section of a Young Root, by Roman Vishniac, c. 1978.”
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