NASA’s got a plan to save us from supervolcanoes – by using them for power.
BBC has more on the planet-spanning threat of supervolcanoes – like the one under Yellowstone that’s about due for a continent-shaking eruption – and their […]
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Science Art: Sea Lamprey Larvae in Hand 2, by R. McDaniels, Great Lakes Fishery Commission.
Click to embiggen Fans of Roderick on the Line may recognize these as living metaphors for modern marketing offers. But they’re invading the Great Lakes […]
They drank bad water in Pompeii.
EurekAlert has research from the University of Southern Denmark on just how doomed Pompeii really was. Not only was that volcano about to engulf the […]
2.7 million-year-old ice shatters records, reveals ancient atmospheres – and ice ages.
(Plural intended.) Science magazine looks back at lots of tiny, tiny pockets of the distant past – with a deep ice core that contains samples […]
Rising CO2 levels mean we’ll get less protein from our grain crops.
Science Daily has one for the “Yeah. Great.” file – research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health showing that the rising carbon […]
Gene editing brings pig-to-human organ transplants one step closer.
Science magazine mulls over new research showing how CRISPR gene editing successfully got rid of PERVs – porcine endogenous retroviruses – and made it that […]
Science Art: Theorica Eclipsis Solaris, by Georg von Peurbach.
This is a diagram of how a solar eclipse works, or at least how they thought one worked in the 14th century. It might be […]
Antibacterial soap could be messing up our unborn babies.
Science Daily gives us research from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that show that the active ingredient in antibacterial soap can pass from mother to child […]
DNA is rewriting humans’ family tree… again.
PhysOrg looks back at our misunderstood ancestors with a University of Utah team that has revealed more about how – and when – Denisovans and […]
Jordan: Techno-utopia.
Nature reports on Jordan’s new push to make itself into the future scientific powerhouse of the Middle East: Jordan’s leaders see science, engineering and technology […]
Science Art: Mummy Portrait of a Woman (73.AP.91), attributed to Malibu Painter.
Click to embiggen The Malibu Painter, who probably painted this, was not active in California’s surf culture, but in Egypt around the time the first […]
Good picture of dark matter.
Science Daily gets us a better look than ever before at how much dark matter is out there, where it is, and what it’s doing […]
We’ve edited the genes of human embryos now.
Nature has the story of an international team led by Portland-based reproductive biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov, who used CRISPR gene-editing to erase a potentially fatal heart […]
Bacteria could rid the South Pacific of mosquitoes within a decade.
Nature has more on a Tahitian lab’s plan to use Wolbachia bacteria to wipe out mosquitoes: The mosquito problem could be solved in the Society […]
Science Art: 1. Papilio Memnon? 2. Pap. Aeneas
Click to embiggen Butterflies of South Asia and Central and South America. Pretty butterflies. Or, as James Duncan and Sir William Jardine called them, Foreign […]