Polar bears might make it after all.
Science Daily hails a new study that finds even in an iceless, seal-less Arctic, the polar bear might be able to survive: As climate change […]
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New Stonehenge discovery = “Archaeology on steroids.”
The Guardian bulks up over scientific enthusiasm for a long-buried stone structure: Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a massive stone monument buried under a […]
Science Art: A tightly wrapped trefoil knot, identified as the second member of the glueball spectrum, 2003.
Click to embiggen From John P. Ralston’s “The Bohr Atom of Glueballs,” an article describing how to model an atom using rope and glue. Sort […]
Wormhole blueprints
Not a hole that worms live in, but the kind that spaceships use to bounce around the galaxy. Science Daily explains how Spanish scientists have […]
The good news: There are lots more trees than we thought. The bad news: Well….
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 […]
Gene therapy rescues brain cells from Alzheimer’s
The Guardian reports on a new therapy – nerve growth factor – that effectively saves dying brain cells: The new results are preliminary findings from […]
Flesh Velcro fixes hearts.
Irish Examiner looks into the “biological Velcro” that could soon help repair damaged hearts: Velcro uses two sheets of material, one covered by hooks and […]
Science Art: Giant Animals: Modern and Extinct (detail), by Mary McLain
Click to embiggen These are prehistoric animals compared to their modern relatives and, for scale, a human. A human who’s interested in what they’re like… […]
Self-driving trucks – no humans *at all* – on Florida’s roads this year.
Popular Science warns us to slow down by construction sites and watch for self-driving trucks on Florida roads by year’s end: The rigs, which are […]
“Secretive company” unveils better way to do fusion. (It’s legit.)
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 […]
What makes tick-borne diseases so tough?
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 […]
A flu vaccine that really works. All the time.
Wired brings up the potential of a universal flu vaccine – and the problems getting one together: Today, independent teams reported in Science and Nature […]
Science Art: Jupiter’s Rings by LORRI, 2007.
Click to embiggen. The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) snapped this photo of Jupiter’s ring system on February 24, 2007, from a distance […]
SONG: Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth)
SONG: “Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “NASA Windbots Could Explore Gas Giant Jupiter”, Sky News, 24 July 2015, as used in the […]
Hope. Hope from frogs. They might just survive.
Nature reports that, in the face of extinction, frogs have a way to adapt to pesticides – a little: Several species of frogs can quickly […]