New skin-cancer combo wipes out 20% of tumors.
Another BBC story, this one about a family of immune-boosting drugs that eat away melanoma in a fifth of patients: The first survival data on […]
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Monarch migration mystery – solved! (We think.)
BBC reports on the computer model that seems to explain how the monarch butterflies make their amazing Canada-to-Mexico trek: Lead researcher Prof Eli Shlizerman, from […]
Science Art: Artist’s impression of JWST, European Space Agency, 2013
Click to embiggen This is an artist’s conception of the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble. The European Space Agency is working […]
New astronomy from old sources: Planetary system found in a photographic plate from 1917.
Science Daily reveals how a century-old spectrographic analysis is probably the first ever evidence of an alien planetary system: bout a year ago, the review’s […]
These gloves translate sign language.
University of Washington undergrads have won $10,000 for designing gloves that translate sign language into text or speech: The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is a nationwide […]
Inflatable space station could orbit by 2020.
New Scientist expands upon the company that just sent an inflatable room to the ISS… and what they’d like to do next: Bigelow Aerospace, which […]
Chinese researchers edit genes in human embryos – again.
Nature has more on the (non-viable) human embryos that were modified to resist HIV before being destroyed: Researchers in China have reported editing the genes […]
Science Art: Nutmeg Tree, from 40 drawings of plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, c.1824.
Click to embiggen Spice. In watercolor. It looks like it would smell delicious. From 40 Drawings of Plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, a collection of natural […]
Prostate drug tested as pedophilia treatment… in crowd-funded experiment.
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 […]
Solar cells that generate power from *rain*, too.
Science Daily has our bases covered with the invention of photoelectric cells that create power from sunlight, and the motion of falling rain: For the […]
Metal whip for self-flagellating monks during Black Death: Go ahead, beat yourself up over it.
Discovery News has the painful truth on the braided copper whip: Found in 2014 at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, the braided-together length of copper wire, turned […]
Protein Diet Shaped Neanderthals
Archaeology thinks a paleo-version of the Atkins Diet made Neanderthals squat and wide-bodied: “During harsh Ice-Age winters, carbohydrates were scarce and fat was in limited […]
Science Art: HAPN-T 4800 Baud Modem, 1991.
Readers of a certain age will remember these waveforms – not by looking at them, but by sound. This is what data looked like as […]
No foolin’: this pen “writes” in stem cells. It can draw new body parts.
Science Daily shows off a new medical device that grows new human parts in whatever shape you can draw them: In a landmark proof-of-concept experiment, […]
We probably drove hobbits to extinction.
Nature reveals new evidence that shows Homo floresiensis is way older than we thought – and may well have been driven to extinction by modern […]