“Inverse vaccine” could treat autoimmune diseases.
The University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering has announced that they’ve come up with a way to make a person’s immune system forget […]
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Cavity-killing breakthrough uses strep-fighting molecule.
SciTech Daily reports on scientists from Israel and China who have discovered a molecule nicknamed DIM that reduces biofilms that cause dental plaque by 90%. […]
Science Art: The beetle (Byturus tomentosus) living on raspberry, from Nordisk familjebok, 1920
A raspberry beetle and its favorite fruit, from a very special category on Wikimedia Commons. We do love an encyclopedia.
There’s a watery planet way out yonder.
Science Daily shares the latest James Webb Space Telescope discovery, of a large planet around a distant star whose chemical traces show a high likelihood […]
Space mission seems to have changed asteroid’s orbit.
BBC is reporting on the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, which touched down on the asteroid Dimorphos (which orbits larger asteroid Didymos) earlier this […]
Science Art: Comparison of planets and stars (2017 update), by Dave Jarvis and Jcpag2012.
This is another way of doing a Cosmic Zoom, comparing the sizes of astronomical things. If you’ve wondered how many Earths could fit inside Arcturus, […]
Human(-ish) kidneys grown in pig embryos.
Science News brings home the bacon for humans needing kidney transplants, with news of a Chinese research team that has successfully grown a “humanized” kidney […]
Lucid dreamers reveal waking brains.
Science News reports on a new method of exploring what happens to our brains when we sleep – by using self-trained lucid dreamers as guides […]
Science Art: From Notes on Cephalopods from Northern California, 1967.
I thought this was a nautilus, but it might be a moon snail. It’s a mollusk of some kind, with a gracefully curved shell and […]
A lot fewer emperor penguins next year. “Catastrophic breeding failure.”
The British Antarctic Survey reports on one consequence of thinning sea ice after one of the warmest winters on record. Out of five known breeding […]
From plastic trash into sudsy cleansers.
Science News reports on a system for “upcycling” plastic trash by converting the non-recycled waste destined for the landfill into surfactants, the chemicals that make […]
Science Art: ECHO 100′ Satellite Inflation Tests, 1958.
A satellite that is also a balloon, as inflated at NASA’s Langley Research Center in 1958. I found this image gleaming in the NASA Image […]
SONG: FAQs
SONG: “FAQs”. (available as .wav here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Popular Science, 14 Aug 2023, “School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books,” […]
Science Art: Information Display front cover, 1972
This is the cover of the 1972 March/April issue of Information Display, Vol 9 No 2, from archive.org. Stories inside include ways to project different-sized […]
ChatGPT, the Fahrenheit 451 edition
Popular Science discusses a school board in Iowa using ChatGPT to itemize the books that should be removed from library shelves because they ‘contain a […]