Breastfeeding, the Australian Broadcasting Corp tells us, is a little more bespoke than one might expect:
… Read the rest “Mother’s milk made to order.”“Mothers are producing different biological recipes for sons and daughters,”
Here’s a little (calf-sized being “little” here) fella from the Triassic period (the first of the three periods of dinosaur rule on Earth, a few million… Read the rest “Science Art: Life restoration of Ischigualastia jenseni, by Smokeybjb”
New Scientist examines the biochemical roots of the emotion we call “love” – and the chemicals we could take to reverse the symptoms:
… Read the rest “A cure for love.”…[E]thics aside, what could
Ecowatch reveals how our cities act as killing machines, with a new study that’s determined that buildings kill nearly one billion birds every year:
… Read the rest “Buildings kill just about one billion birds a year.”In the most comprehensive study
Nature explains the unusual effects that chloride ions can have on our developing brains, and what that means for a drug that seems to help autistic kids socialize:
… Read the rest “Diuretic drug appears to help autism.”The findings, reported
Or: “Weird substance gets weirder.” Nature has more on how the latest tests have thrown models of how carbon circuits are supposed to work into disarray:
… Read the rest “Latest graphene surprise: a better conductor than expected.”In graphene, electrons
OK, that’s a little hyperbolic, but only a little. The Guardian has more on the last chimp “mega-culture” just found in the central African jungle:
… Read the rest “Chimp civilization found in Congo.”Harboured by the
This is a very old skull from a Stone Age mammal called Ovibos moschatus, as pictured in A monograph of the British pleistocene mammalia, a publication by W. Boyd Dawkins… Read the rest “Science Art: Occipital View of Skull of Ovibos Moschatus, by W. West & Co., 1866”
Miami Herald gets the low-down on the underground 305 – hidden under Miami streets and condos and neon-lit skyscrapers, there’s a prehistoric village (and a priceless piece… Read the rest “2,000-year-old village uncovered… in downtown Miami.”
Science Daily reveals the tricks that the present plays on our memories:
… Read the rest “Neuroscientists: Your memory is a fiction.”This the first study to show specifically how memory is faulty, and how it can insert things from the present into
The Independent covers the poignant final hours of China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover as the rolling robot bids a sad farewell to the folks back home:
… Read the rest “Little lost Chinese rover: “Good night, planet Earth. Good night, humanity.””…Jade Rabbit – named
Nature‘s sharing a recipe to make your own stem cells from scratch – by reprogramming ordinary cells in an acid bath:
… Read the rest “Let’s bake up some stem cells!”In 2006, Japanese researchers reported1 a technique for
An illustration illustrating illustration. This is how standardized maps are made. These are the standards.
From The preparation of illustrations for reports of the… Read the rest “Science Art: Water Features and Relief Features, from The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey, with brief descriptions of processes of reproduction, 1920”
Laboratory Equipment has some bad news for butterflies:
… Read the rest “Monarch migration may be over. Forever.”After steep and steady declines in the previous three years, the black-and-orange butterflies now cover only 1.65 acres (0.67
Energy Post calls it “the BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGH EVER!” That seems a bit much, but it is interesting that a Boeing-sponsored group in Abu Dhabi has figured out how to make super-clean,… Read the rest “Boeing announces (with much hype) new way to turn deserts into biofuel farms.”
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