Fusion has the details on the growing community of DNA uploaders:
… Read the rest “A social network for sharing your DNA. Online, I mean.”Members of openSNP upload their genes along with things like their sex, age, eye color, location, Fitbit data and medical
Nature reports on a British legal ruling that’s a world-first, a step toward allowing medical scientists to create “three-parent” embryos:
… Read the rest “One dad, two moms… on the cellular level. Now, legal. Almost.”This technique, known
Live Science describes a new sort of prehistoric monster – a bull-sized rodent with elephant-like tusks:
… Read the rest “The age of the elephant rats.”An amateur paleontologist first unearthed the skull of an extinct rodent,
A bygone medical device, as preserved on the Public Domain Review’s selections from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry by Samuel Howard Monell, a 1910 treatise… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 3. Compare this medical high frequency apparatus…”
CNTV reports on the discovery of Yuan Dynasty artwork – a trove of murals from the time when the Khans ruled:
… Read the rest “Faces of the sons of the Khans, in living color”The tomb was discovered last year when a heavy downpour washed away the top
Or, Live Science kinda sorta points out, it might not. But the thing sold as a “garden ornament” is certainly ancient and mysterious:
… Read the rest “Mystery stone might have unknown Anglo-Saxon writing.”The hefty carving was up for sale as a garden
That’s what Nature is expecting to see, in its overview of the world of autonomous vehicles:
… Read the rest “Driverless cars in less than a decade”This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, UK, in electric shuttles
Discovery News gets all excited by NASA-JPL’s announcement that they’re budgeting for a robotic mission to seek life on Jupiter’s moon Europa:
… Read the rest “NASA preps for life-hunting mission to Europa”In response to this
Popular Science looks at the hard facts behind decriminalization and legalization (two different things!) of marijuana – and what science says happens when cannabis consumption… Read the rest “Don’t despise it. Decriminalize it. (Or, you know, don’t… but at least know the facts.)”
This one is definitely worth clicking to embiggen. It’s from the very detailed, very large Histoire générale et particulière du développement des corps organisés… Read the rest “Science Art: Uterus En Etat De Gestation by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste”
Siberian Times, the paper of record for the taiga, reports on the first successful reconstruction of ancient brain surgery:
… Read the rest “Recreating trepanation: how they poked holes in people’s heads (to heal them).”Neurosurgeons have been working with anthropologists and
Can’t beat NBC’s headline for this: Insects Wear Tiny Spacesuits, for Science:
… Read the rest “Insects in tiny space suits. Real ones. In a vacuum.”Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) provide incredibly detailed images of biological specimens,
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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