The Atlantic (the magazine, not the ocean) just located a giant reef no one knew existed near the mouth of the Amazon River:
… Read the rest “Well, *anyone* could misplace a 600-mile barrier reef! Right?”A team of Brazilian and American scientists have discovered a new
Wired (with a little help from Cassini) narrows our search for the hidden, big planet orbiting the fringes of the solar system:
… Read the rest “We’re closing in on Planet Nine. (Or X. Whatever.)”Matthew J. Holman and Matthew J. Payne of the Harvard-Smithsonian
Another BBC story, this one about a family of immune-boosting drugs that eat away melanoma in a fifth of patients:
… Read the rest “New skin-cancer combo wipes out 20% of tumors.”The first survival data on using ipilimumab and nivolumab in combination
BBC reports on the computer model that seems to explain how the monarch butterflies make their amazing Canada-to-Mexico trek:
… Read the rest “Monarch migration mystery – solved! (We think.)”Lead researcher Prof Eli Shlizerman, from the University
This is an artist’s conception of the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble. The European Space Agency is working on it, with NASA, Northrop Grumman… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s impression of JWST, European Space Agency, 2013”
Science Daily reveals how a century-old spectrographic analysis is probably the first ever evidence of an alien planetary system:
… Read the rest “New astronomy from old sources: Planetary system found in a photographic plate from 1917.”bout a year ago, the review’s author, Jay Farihi
University of Washington undergrads have won $10,000 for designing gloves that translate sign language into text or speech:
… Read the rest “These gloves translate sign language.”The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is a nationwide search for
New Scientist expands upon the company that just sent an inflatable room to the ISS… and what they’d like to do next:
… Read the rest “Inflatable space station could orbit by 2020.”Bigelow Aerospace, which just sent an inflatable room to
Nature has more on the (non-viable) human embryos that were modified to resist HIV before being destroyed:
… Read the rest “Chinese researchers edit genes in human embryos – again.”Researchers in China have reported editing the genes of human embryos to try to
Spice.
In watercolor.
It looks like it would smell delicious.
From 40 Drawings of Plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, a collection of natural history paintings done by Chinese… Read the rest “Science Art: Nutmeg Tree, from 40 drawings of plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, c.1824.”
Science has the convoluted story of the prostate-cancer drug that lowers testosterone levels enough that people are willing to try it as a cure for pedophilic impulses, with the help of … Read the rest “Prostate drug tested as pedophilia treatment… in crowd-funded experiment.”
Science Daily has our bases covered with the invention of photoelectric cells that create power from sunlight, and the motion of falling rain:
… Read the rest “Solar cells that generate power from *rain*, too.”For the conversion of solar energy to electricity,
Discovery News has the painful truth on the braided copper whip:
… Read the rest “Metal whip for self-flagellating monks during Black Death: Go ahead, beat yourself up over it.”Found in 2014 at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, the braided-together length of copper wire, turned to be part of a whip
Archaeology thinks a paleo-version of the Atkins Diet made Neanderthals squat and wide-bodied:
… Read the rest “Protein Diet Shaped Neanderthals”“During harsh Ice-Age winters, carbohydrates were scarce and fat was in limited supply.
Readers of a certain age will remember these waveforms – not by looking at them, but by sound. This is what data looked like as transmitted by a 4800-baud modem.
It’s kind of funny… Read the rest “Science Art: HAPN-T 4800 Baud Modem, 1991.”
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