The honeybee’s greatest foe isn’t after their blood – it’s sucking their *fat*.
Science Daily puts the beekeeper’s foe, the varroa mite (believed to be a key player in Colony Collapse Disorder), in a new light. The parasite […]
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Growing perfect little human blood vessels in a dish – and a mouse
The University of British Columbia, via Science Daily, wants us to know that they’ve taken stem cells and used them to grow perfect little blood […]
Deprived kids feel the effects two decades later.
Medical Xpress (via PhysOrg) reports on a long-term Boston Children’s Hospital study of institutionalized children from Romanian orphanages – the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP). […]
Science Art: A Plunge into Space, book cover, 1890.
Click to embiggen This is the cover of an early science fiction hit, Robert Cromie’s A Plunge into Space, which was in print from 1890 […]
The Hubble is broken, and the gov’t shutdown means no one’s fixing it.
Nature shows us how politics is blinding science: Hubble’s mission operations are based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where most employees […]
A single feral cat destroys a colony of endangered birds.
Australia’s WA Today reveals how one stray cat killed 40 chicks and forced a protected bird colony to move elsewhere to try to survive: The […]
Forbes is replacing articles editors with robots now?
I’m trying to parse this some other way, but Digiday is sure making it seem like this “topic prompter/rough draft creator” software is a step […]
Science Art: Helicodiceros crinitus Schott by J. Strohmayer / Anstalt v. Reiffenstein & Rösch in Wein.
Click to embiggen An image of an arum, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Aroideae, 1 album, consisting of plates from Heinrich Wilhelm Schott’s Aroideae. The […]
Penguin choices: Either the scientist comes and makes you puke, or else your whole family’s poop gets photographed from space.
Science News gets the dirt on how we use space hardware to discover what penguins are eating: Because Adélie penguins cluster together at a predictable […]
The more extreme your politics, the less you can think about how you think.
Popular Science follows University of London researchers as they experiment on True Believers of any persuasion – and find that those who hold extreme beliefs […]
A First Look at Ultima Thule
Science News gives us the latest on New Horizon’s flyby of Ultima Thule, giving us our closest look at the furthest object we’ve ever visited: […]
Genetically-altered houseplants clear indoor air.
Science Daily reveals an environmentally friendly GMO – a new variety of pothos ivy that University of Washington researchers designed to remove chloroform and benzene […]
Science Art: Drawing of proposed Pig Capsule, Little Joe first shot
Click to embiggen NASA serves the ham in a tray. “Little Joe” was a test rocket named for a kind of craps roll – because […]
Fuzzy little pterosaur.
Science Daily makes the leather-winged terrors of the Jurassic seem downright cuddly with research that indicates pterosaurs might, in fact, have been soft and cuddly: […]
Science Art: Tiny planets….
Click to embiggen Something appropriate for the season and, maybe, for Comet Wirtanen… from nemfrog: Tiny planets, visitors from other worlds, become white-hot and are […]