SONG: What To Do (On mRNA Immune Checkpoint Blockade)
SONG: “What To Do (On mRNA Immune Checkpoint Blockade)”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “People with some cancers live longer after a […]
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Covid vaccine boosts life-saving cancer treatment.
Nature just released a “huh, go figure!” bit of preliminary research showing better outcomes for patients with melanoma or lung cancer who had a COVID-19 […]
Making embryos from human skin
BBC recently reported on scientists taking DNA from human skin cells and fertilizing it with sperm to create a non-egg embryo – or at least […]
AI detects melanoma with 99% accuracy.
Northeastern Global News reports on a positive use for artificial intelligence, with a system that outperforms other techniques by helping doctors spot potentially deadly skin […]
Science Art: Ribbon schematic of the 3D structure of the protein triose phosphate isomerase
Jane Richardson drew this by hand and then colored it in back in 1981. It’s a protein molecule, or a diagram of how things move […]
Making batteries out of concrete.
As in the building material. MIT News reports on researchers who have gotten 10 times the power out of a reformulated battery that’s made from […]
Science Art: Yellow and blue, old and new, 2025
This is a photo from 10 days ago of stars millions of light-years away (so the picture is of things long, long before October 3). […]
Skeleton sculpting of Stone-Age China
PhysOrg reports on archaeologists studying “bone modification,” a custom that seems to have been practiced among the first city-dwellers in southern China, who set up […]
Science Art: Instrumento de Geographia y Cosmographia, 1606
This is a tool from Theatro del Mvndo y de el Tiempo, a book of star maps by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, Miguel Perez, and Sebastian […]
Prehistoric Patagonian predator ate giant crocodiles
Reuters reports on a discover discovered in southern Argentina that apparently outdid T. rex and carnosaurus in its ferocity. A fossil of the colossal Cretaceous […]
Musicians don’t feel pain like other people.
Is it worse? No, according to Science Alert. They’re sharing research that shows musical training actually increases tolerance for pain: Research has also found that […]
Science Art: One Osprey Mouth at a Time II, by Phil’s 1stPix
Here’s a photo from the Encyclopedia of Life collection on Flickr, showing a family of the old bone-breakers, the fish-hawks, ospreys. They are a noble […]
SONG: Dirt Poor
SONG: “Dirt Poor”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Dirty emotions: Microbes in soil may affect hormones tied to love, mental health and […]
Science Art: We Live With the Seminoles opener, 1942
This is the first page of an article from Natural History Magazine‘s April 1942 edition, which I found on archive.org. Today, the Seminole Tribe owns […]
Computers are beating humans at predicting future outcomes.
Time (not a science magazine, but…) has a story on the Metaculus forecasting cup (not a scientific experiment, but…), which offers a $5,000 prize to […]