Knowable Magazine reports on a new use for remote-controlled drones — to collect DNA samples from whales blowing mucus out their blowholes, and to simply spy on whales from above… Read the rest “Snot drones for whale science”
When the snake sees, this is what the snake sees with. The snake in question is Natrix natrix, the barred grass snake. The image was “redrawn from Schwarz-Karsten, modified from original… Read the rest “Science Art: The Ophidian Eye in Vertical Section, 1942”
Live Science goes into the brimstone of the underworld — a sulfuric cave literally named “Sulfur Cave” — on the border of Greece and Albania, and finds —… Read the rest “A cave full of 111,000 spiders in the dark.”
CTV News has an item from University of British Columbia researchers who have found an alternative to Port-a-Potties and camp toilets that doesn’t need all the maintenance, doesn’t… Read the rest “A toilet powered by mushrooms”
This is a mustelid, a relative of weasels and wolverines, called a fisher. The scientific name is Pekania pennanti. They’ve never been very common, and are getting less so. (A Florida… Read the rest “Science Art: Illustration of a Southern Sierra Nevada fisher”
Nature reports on an electronic retinal implant that has successfully allowed people with age-related macular degeneration to see again:
… Read the rest “Eye implant reverses blindness”The implant, which measures 2 millimetres by
Wired has an unsettling bit of tech reporting on how easy it is to see nearly all of our secrets with about $800 worth of equipment. Phone calls, internet searches, Signal chats, troop positions,… Read the rest “Satellites are the weak link in keeping secrets.”
A diagram of two kinds of RNA doing their thing inside a cell (which is converting instructions from DNA into some kind of protein that a cell uses to do something.
Since this illustration … Read the rest “Science Art:Vergleich der Aufnahme von RNA und modR in der Zelle, 2018”
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 vaccination within… Read the rest “Covid vaccine boosts life-saving cancer treatment.”
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 an embryo with someone else’s DNA… Read the rest “Making embryos from human skin”
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 cancers… Read the rest “AI detects melanoma with 99% accuracy.”
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 inside a protein molecule.
Here’s the description… Read the rest “Science Art: Ribbon schematic of the 3D structure of the protein triose phosphate isomerase”
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 concrete – that could one day be… Read the rest “Making batteries out of concrete.”
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).
The official credit is: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko,… Read the rest “Science Art: Yellow and blue, old and new, 2025”
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 a … Read the rest “Skeleton sculpting of Stone-Age China”
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