Nature introduces yet another ethical wrinkle into the production of stem cells, with new techniques to create cell-generating embryos from adult cells:
… Read the rest “We can get embryonic stem cells… by cloning adults.”On 17 April, researchers led
How can this vine *know* what to look like? Science looks at the first known case of shape-shifting mimicry in the vegetable kingdom:
… Read the rest “This vine changes shape to fit in with whatever’s nearby.”Fewer examples of mimicry—or crypsis—are known for
From Basic Electronics, Part 5, a manual used by the U.S. Navy to train people in the basics of aerials, transmitters, frequency modulation and all that great stuff… especially signal-to-noise… Read the rest “Science Art: Man-Made Producers of Noise, by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville, 1959.”
Not sure if this article from The Atlantic should go in the “no duh” file or if it’s really profound, but they’re certainly interested in the idea that teens can… Read the rest “Feeling the meaningless of it all? Do something selfless.”
BBC News asks a rather interesting question based on a curious correlation. Worldwide crime rates dropped, on average, at about the same time we stopped putting lead in gasoline:
… Read the rest “Did unleaded gasoline lower our crime rate?”For most
… Read the rest “SONG: “Growing Batteries””SONG: “Growing Batteries.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “Process Turns Cellulose into Energy
Nature is sharing a fun little recipe for whipping up the super-material graphene in a kitchen blender:
… Read the rest “Home-baked carbon crystals – graphene made to order.”In Nature Materials, a team led by [Jonathan] Coleman [at Trinity College, Dublin,]
Nature has published an article about a cave insect that combines the words “marathon sex session” with “the female’s spiky penis”:
… Read the rest “My, madam, what a spiky member you have… in me….”In desolate caves
Universe Today celebrates a Goldilocks discovery. The Kepler mission has found a planet just the right size and in just the right place to have life on it:
… Read the rest “Howdy, neighbor!”The newly-confirmed extrasolar
Science magazine turns on yet another way electromagnetism can alter the way we think and remember – by switching on vivid visual hallucinations:
… Read the rest “A vision machine (as in, it gives you visions).”A 22-year-old male was receiving
Nature reveals how parents who live through something horrible can have children who inherit depression and anxiety – biologically, through their RNA – from traumas they… Read the rest “Children can inherit their parents’ trauma… through Dad’s sperm.”
Science Daily has the skinny on how we might wind up using fast-growing, high-density tobacco to save the planet from global warming – by creating bioethanol:
… Read the rest “Tobacco will save us all.”In the course of the
The Verge explains how a Danger Mouse and The Shins’ James Mercer have joined forces to make some pretty good music… and to save us all from an epic, planet-destroying cataclysm… Read the rest “Broken Bells – indie band, interplanetary heroes.”
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