CNN covers an odd project, using Svante Paabo’s reconstructed Neanderthal genome and European stem-cell banks to recreate mini-brain cell-clusters that are up to 20% Neanderthal… Read the rest “Growing Neanderthal brains in the lab (using European stem cells).”
Cell reveals a potential replacement for pollinators – the vital insects who keep plants from almonds to corn to quinoa reproducing – by using flying robotic bubble-makers… Read the rest “Substituting soap-bubble robots for pollinating insects.”
Scientific American‘s “60-Second Science” looks into the mucus mansions built by sea creatures with complex (if slimy) home lives:
… Read the rest “Snot palaces reveal a new way of life”Kakani Katija, a bioengineer
NASA’s Marshall Gallery lists this image as “date unknown,” but since Skylab was crewed from 1973 to 1974, and fell out of orbit in 1979, I think it’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Russ Arasmith Skylab Artwork, date unknown.”
Science News breaks down the costs and benefits of restoring a predator like otters to an ecosystem, and finds that the ecological conservation approach pays for itself and then some (unless… Read the rest “Bringing otters back really paid off.”
The Guardian has another radar-archaeology victory, looking underground with Cambridge University scientists mapping Falerii Novi, the first ancient Roman city to be surveyed by ground-penetrating… Read the rest “Mapping an invisible Roman city”
Science News looks at a new 3D map of the nerves that function as a miniature brain inside our hearts:
… Read the rest “Mapping the heart’s little brain.”To make their map, systems biologist James Schwaber at Thomas Jefferson University in
A device from the early 20th century to turn sound waves into drawings – creating some of the first waveform illustrations. Those are something anyone … Read the rest “Science Art: H.G. Dorsey: Device for Graphically Reproducing Sound Waves, 1912”
Scientific American shares (in an interview with facial expression and emotion researcher Ursula Hess, deputy dean at Humboldt University) some of the physiology behind a phenomenon… Read the rest “Smiling behind the mask”
National Geographic gets physical clues about the parchment the Dead Sea Scrolls were written on – by DNA testing the fragmentary animal skins that these scriptures were written… Read the rest “DNA testing the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Nature looks at what it takes to make a 100 percent efficient catalyst for getting clean fuel from water:
… Read the rest “To make hydrogen from water and sunlight, you need an efficient catalyst. Here’s a perfect one.”The largest potential source of renewable energy is the Sun: about 0.02% of the solar
A photo with maybe a little optimism.
From NASA’s Image of the Day gallery description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Demo-2 Launch: Setting Forth on a Historic Journey by NASA/Bill Ingalls”A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft
Popular Science makes some of the most terrifying creatures of prehistory even more terrifying with reconstructed evidence that flesh-eating dinosaurs got hungry enough to eat each … Read the rest “Dinosaur cannibals.”
Science News reviews the show-stopping submarine research that has gone behind the scenes with four species of sequined sea worms that have collectively been named “Elvis worms”… Read the rest “These sea worms look sequined – so we named them after Elvis”
Prince Albert I of Monaco was really into marine life, and used the royal yacht as a scientific research vessel.
Here, from the description on The Artful Gene’s tumblog… Read the rest “Science Art: Cephalopodes: Pl. III, 1889.”
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