Homegrown eyes.
Medical Daily is dishing up a bright new recipe for making biological corneas from scratch:
… Read the rest “Homegrown eyes.”More than a decade ago, Dr. Griffith and her colleagues began developing biosynthetic corneas
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Science Art: Repeating circle with two telescopes, Caroline Hassler, 1820
Image of Victorian-era coastal survey equipment found in the NOAA Photo Library.
The equipment belonged to the artist’s grandfather, a Swiss immigrant and West… Read the rest “Science Art: Repeating circle with two telescopes, Caroline Hassler, 1820”
Dry water.
No, not ice, but, as the Telegraph explains it, a form of water that just isn’t wet:
… Read the rest “Dry water.”Each particle of dry water contains a water droplet surrounded by a sandy silica coating. In fact,
Unselfish? Don’t expect us to *like* it.
Science Daily explores an ugly side of human nature. Research shows that groups don’t like good guys among them:
… Read the rest “Unselfish? Don’t expect us to *like* it.”Four separate studies led by a Washington State University social
Pee-pee power.
I went there. No, really, I went there. The BBC reports on the way chemists will use urine as fuel:
… Read the rest “Pee-pee power.”Dr Tao said: “Growing up in rural eastern China I was aware of the use of urea as an agricultural
SONG: Rising Like the Sun
SONG: “Rising Like the Sun”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Antidepressants in water cause shrimps… Read the rest “SONG: Rising Like the Sun”
Science Art: Triceratops-Eotriceratops size 02, by Conty.
Image from Wikimedia Commons, where it soon might be deleted for making the Eotriceratops too large.
They always seem to put the people at the wrong end.
Zombie ants from 48 million BC!!
Science Daily assures us these shocking, primordial monsters are very real:
… Read the rest “Zombie ants from 48 million BC!!”“This leaf shows clear signs of one well documented form of zombie-parasite, a fungus which infects
Take a hike, kid.
G’wan. Get out of here. No, you don’t need me to hold your hand. The Guardian says you should go outside and play!
… Read the rest “Take a hike, kid.”[A] growing body of evidence is starting to show that it’s
Look happy, feel happy.
It’s not just about paralyzing your face to make you look younger. Not too long ago, Indiana University revealed that Botox really does make people happier:
… Read the rest “Look happy, feel happy.”Here’s David Havas,
Before there was DNA….
That’s what’s still going inside this food-poisoning bacteria, according to Science Daily. Its genetic material is so ancient, it’s older than genes as we know them… Read the rest “Before there was DNA….”
Destination Venus.
Or, as Discovery News puts it, RETURN TO HELL:
… Read the rest “Destination Venus.”We have a lot of unanswered questions about Venus that warrant a return surface visit. Venus might have once had oceans and even incubated life.
Science Art: Deep Sea Angler, by Justin Marshall, QBI.
This is a photograph taken off Osprey Reef by researchers with the Sensory Neurology Group of the Queensland Brain Institute. No, not marine biologists – but scientists… Read the rest “Science Art: Deep Sea Angler, by Justin Marshall, QBI.”
Fall of antibiotics
Break out the garlic and sulfur compounds. The Guardian’s predicting the end of antibiotics in as soon as 10 years:
… Read the rest “Fall of antibiotics”Hyperbole? Unfortunately not. The highly serious journal Lancet
Eater of planets.
Not Galactus, but Jupiter, says New Scientist. The king of planets got to be so big because it gorged itself on super-Earths sometime in its early past:
… Read the rest “Eater of planets.”New simulations by Shu Lin Li of Peking