Washington Post spells out the bad news. There are more trees than we thought, but that means there are a *whole lot* less than there used to be:
… Read the rest “The good news: There are lots more trees than we thought. The bad news: Well….”In a blockbuster study released Wednesday in
The Guardian reports on a new therapy – nerve growth factor – that effectively saves dying brain cells:
… Read the rest “Gene therapy rescues brain cells from Alzheimer’s”The new results are preliminary findings from the very first human trials
Irish Examiner looks into the “biological Velcro” that could soon help repair damaged hearts:
… Read the rest “Flesh Velcro fixes hearts.”Velcro uses two sheets of material, one covered by hooks and the other loops,
These are prehistoric animals compared to their modern relatives and, for scale, a human. A human who’s interested in what they’re like… except when…… Read the rest “Science Art: Giant Animals: Modern and Extinct (detail), by Mary McLain”
Popular Science warns us to slow down by construction sites and watch for self-driving trucks on Florida roads by year’s end:
… Read the rest “Self-driving trucks – no humans *at all* – on Florida’s roads this year.”The rigs, which are part of a Department of Transportation
Science magazine has an exclusive report on a fusion group that could change everything. They’ve got a reactor that works better than any power source we’ve seen yet:
… Read the rest ““Secretive company” unveils better way to do fusion. (It’s legit.)”A privately
Nature tries to figure out why we’re not making the headway we should against Lyme, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and the rest of the tick-borne nasties:
… Read the rest “What makes tick-borne diseases so tough?”[Scott] Williams is testing
Wired brings up the potential of a universal flu vaccine – and the problems getting one together:
… Read the rest “A flu vaccine that really works. All the time.”Today, independent teams reported in Science and Nature Medicine how they’ve tinkered
… Read the rest “Science Art: Jupiter’s Rings by LORRI, 2007.”The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) snapped this photo of Jupiter’s ring system on February 24, 2007, from a distance of 7.1 million kilometers
SONG: “Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth)”.
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SOURCE:Based on “NASA Windbots Could Explore Gas Giant Jupiter”, Sky News, 24 July 2015, as used … Read the rest “SONG: Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth)”
Nature reports that, in the face of extinction, frogs have a way to adapt to pesticides – a little:
… Read the rest “Hope. Hope from frogs. They might just survive.”Several species of frogs can quickly switch on genetic resistance to a group of commonly
Denmark’s The Local shares the excitement of discovering a 400-year-old dragon – a figurehead from a Danish ship – that has been hidden in the sea since the 1500s:
… Read the rest “Sea monster found off Sweden – and archaeologists are thrilled.”The
German researchers, as disclosed in Science Daily, have found a singularly creative language – a form of whistled Turkish that, unlike any other language on Earth, is not processed… Read the rest “Whistled language is right-brained.”
BBC reveals a dirty secret about our sooty cities – the grunge doesn’t trap air pollution – it creates it:
… Read the rest “City grime “breathes out” pollution”In rooftop experiments in Germany, the researchers tracked
The Denver Post‘s (ahem) “nerd blog” has some interesting things to say about the planet next door – which, University of Colorado researchers believe, might… Read the rest “Life on Mars, and not too long ago.”
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