Nature checks our DNA and finds that, yes, a lot of us are related to the Mongolian conqueror… but Genghis Khan ain’t the only big daddy:
… Read the rest “Genghis Khan ain’t the only big daddy.”“Lots of men have lots of sons, by chance.
That, according to Nature, is the call issued by ecologist Stephen Heard, who wants researchers to keep their prose whimsical, funny, elegant and moving:
… Read the rest “Make science beautiful, researchers.”In a guest post on the Tree of Life
Eurekalert releases results of a study that’s found hormonal birth control increases risk of brain tumors:
… Read the rest “Birth control hormones linked to brain tumors”Taking a hormonal contraceptive for at least five years is associated
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The full title of this appears to be: “D ß ist der schneck auß dem grund auf gezogen/mit allen notwendigen linien drauß er gemacht wirdet,” or “This … Read the rest “Science Art: D ß ist der schneck auß dem grund…, by Albrecht Duerer, from Four Books on Measurement (Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt)”
SONG: “Sleeping.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Naps Help Infants Form Memories“, Laboratory Equipment, 14 January 2015, as used in the post “Naps… Read the rest “SONG: Sleeping”
It just ain’t sanitary. Science magazine plumbs the depths of the million-dollar treasure hiding at the municipal waste treatment plant:
… Read the rest “There’s gold in them thar sewers….”Metals have long been known to concentrate
Science Daily explains how an orbital camera solved a decade-old Martian mystery:
… Read the rest “We found Beagle 2 on Mars.”Images taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, and initially
Probably us too, but Laboratory Equipment is only looking at the way babies need naps to remember new things:
… Read the rest “Naps make memories (in infants).”In a study, which is the first of its kind, researchers from the Univ. of Sheffield
This is a little critter known as Carchesium polypinum, less formally a “stalked ciliate,” an organism that forms colonies that look like teensy tinesy trees, or maybe ferns,… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 10 (Theil eines Stockes von Carchesium polypinum mit zwei Individuen), by Carl Gegenbaur,1870”
PhysOrg repeats a theme I’ve heard a lot lately – finding yet more evidence that Homo sapiens wasn’t really a step forward for Homo neanderthalensis:
… Read the rest “Stone Age man not more advanced than Neanderthals.”A multi-purpose
Nature reports on new clues that we learned to talk by learning to cut meat:
… Read the rest “Stone tools, stone lessons, stone words”Here we present an experiment investigating the efficacy of transmission of Oldowan tool-making skills along
Science Daily reports on artificial muscle that works… meaning, it could actually do work:
… Read the rest “They’ve grown muscle in the lab… and made it twitch.”The study was led by Nenad Bursac, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke
SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This is a cover making up for… Read the rest “SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential AJ Allulli cover)”
A vision of futures past from NASA’s Glenn Research Center Collection, part of the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System.
This was what they planned the Space Shuttle… Read the rest “Science Art: Space Shuttle, concept art from NASA’s Glenn Research Center.”
Healthline spells out the basics of rebooting an immune system from scratch – which means a pretty dramatic step forward in medicine:
… Read the rest “Stem cell therapy puts multiple sclerosis in remission.”Studying 24 study volunteers who underwent
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