A superbug antibiotic… that comes out of our noses?
Nature fearlessly plunges into our nostrils in search of bacteria that can kill MRSA: The potential new soldier in the fight against MRSA is a […]
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Leatherbacks get around. Now, they’ve found a new beach.
Miami Herald reports on some hope for an endangered species – the first known leatherback nest (with hatchlings!) found in the Florida Keys: The nest […]
Beer geneticists.
Nature reports on another genetic revolution that’s, um, brewing in Belgium, where DNA researchers are tweaking yeast to make better beer: Kevin Verstrepen’s lab meetings […]
Two teams of scientists are using CRISPR on humans.
CBC News reports on the pioneering work (and maybe friendly rivalry) being used to cure lung cancer with edited genes: [F]or scientists like Jason Moffat, […]
Science Art: Map, Glen Tilt, Tayside, by James Hutton
I’m not sure exactly what this is a map of (other than Glen Tilt, Tayside), because there’s not much information on the USGS page where […]
Clouds are gathering. In a weird way. At the poles.
Nature looks high and low at the way clouds have changed since the 1980s – as global-warming models predicted: An analysis of satellite data has […]
Science Art: Woodcut: H. Regius proving spirits in the slug, in flask, 1654.
Click to embiggen This is a slug in a bottle. To be more specific, it’s “Illustrations of the experiments of H. Regius to prove the […]
Bacteria movement could power tiny machines.
Wired is thinking big about something much, much smaller than a hamster in a wheel – powering microscopic machines with “bacterial windfarms”: The natural movement […]
Cemetery find reveals Philistine secrets.
National Geographic discusses how a dig at Ashkelon, in southern Israel, might unravel who the Philistines really were – and how they might be related […]
Thumb-sucking and nail-biting gives kids allergy resistance.
Science Daily reveals the hidden health benefits of sucking your thumb and biting your nails: The researchers [of New Zealand’s Dunedin School of Medicine, assisted […]
Science Art: Clash of the Triassic Titans: Phytosaur vs. Rauisuchian, by Julio Lacerda.
Click to embiggen This is a recreation of a weird ecosystem – one without any beef, basically. The Chinle formation, a primordial swamp in what […]
Living robot: mechanical stingray swims with rat-cell muscles.
Popular Mechanics describes the rat-cell engine that powers this stingray robot: “Roughly speaking, we made this thing with a pinch of rat cardiac cells, a […]
Archaeologists: This New Testament is full of pee!
Live Science has more on the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, a 1,500-year-old, purple-paged book that seems to have been dyed with fermented, boiled urine: For centuries […]
MRI Mulligan? 15 years of neuro research might just have been zapped.
Wired brings up the rather unpleasant prospect of a bug in MRI software invalidating 15 years of brain-scan results: Three of the most popular pieces […]
The Zebra Shark Madonna: Aquarium celebrates virgin birth
National Geographic describes an Australian aquarium’s wonderment at a shark that just gave birth despite being alone for three years: Aquarium keepers in Australia realized […]