Trauma can be inherited.
Shades of Philip Larkin…. Washington Post has more on how mice, at least, pass fear down with their DNA:
… Read the rest “Trauma can be inherited.”In the experiment, researchers taught male mice to fear the smell of cherry
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Science Art: Cumulative Absorption Spectrum, Hubble Telescope by NASA/STScI.
This is how spectroscopy works – how you can tell what’s floating around in space even when you can’t see it, only light that passes *through* it. The Hubble Space Telescope… Read the rest “Science Art: Cumulative Absorption Spectrum, Hubble Telescope by NASA/STScI.”
Oldest ancestor’s DNA is sequenced.
Meaning, although PhysOrg stops short of saying so, that we could maybe someday build a hominin from scratch. As it is, though, we’ve still got a lot we can do today, now that we’ve… Read the rest “Oldest ancestor’s DNA is sequenced.”
Space-X launches a satellite. Meaning: they’re in money.
International Business Times hints at what the first commercial satellite means for the future of space:
… Read the rest “Space-X launches a satellite. Meaning: they’re in money.”After two failed launch attempts due to technical glitches last week, the 22-story
Wet planets – we’ve got their names.
Science Daily has Hubble’s latest clue to finding life elsewhere in space. The telescope has found five distant, watery worlds:
… Read the rest “Wet planets – we’ve got their names.”The five planets — WASP-17b, HD209458b, WASP-12b,
The Barry White organ. It’s how koalas get low.
Nature gets the lowdown on the anatomical secret behind the koala’s deep, deep voice:
… Read the rest “The Barry White organ. It’s how koalas get low.”Benjamin Charlton, a biologist at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, wanted to know what
Amazon’s fleet of flying robots
Mashable looks to the skies at Amazon’s latest innovation in delivery – a fleet of flying robots bringing YOUR Christmas present:
… Read the rest “Amazon’s fleet of flying robots”A video of how the service will work has already
Science Art: Solar System by Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum
In the book Mysterium Comsmographicum, Johannes Kepler started mapping out how planets worked.
The idea here is that the solar system is structured according to the Platonic solids, one… Read the rest “Science Art: Solar System by Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum”
Thanksgiving Theremin: Tigres de Verre, by Tristran Murail.
Yes, technically not a theremin, but one of its children.
Bruno Perrault played the ondes Martenot and Matteo Ramon Arevalos played the piano, recorded on 21 February 2006.
Murail is a “spectral”… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: Tigres de Verre, by Tristran Murail.”
Thanksgiving Theremin: Space Vocalise by the Armenian State Chamber Orchestra, Satenik Hakobyan-Ulikhanyan soloist.
Martin Ulikhanyan composed this dreamy piece, which was recorded on 16 March 2013, conducted by Zaven Vardanyan. Ulikhanyan has a YouTube channel and a Soundcloud account.
Happy listening.… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: Space Vocalise by the Armenian State Chamber Orchestra, Satenik Hakobyan-Ulikhanyan soloist.”
Mega-predator turkey ancestor discovered – a dinosaur that could chomp T. rex.
Untamed Science has the skinny on Siats meekerorum, an early Cretaceous predator the size of a bus:
… Read the rest “Mega-predator turkey ancestor discovered – a dinosaur that could chomp T. rex.”So imagine a world where the giant Siats is top dog, and ancestors of the T. rex (tyrannosaurs)
Waterproof? *METAL* proof.
Remember the superhero fashion designer in The Incredibles? Nature unfolds the true story of a “super-material” that repels liquids so well, it resists molten metal:
… Read the rest “Waterproof? *METAL* proof.”Kripa
Science Art: Topography of a Duck, by Maynard F. Reece.
From the book Waterfowl in Iowa, by Jack W. Musgrove and Mary R. Musgrove, published by the Iowa State Conservation Commission.
I found this self-explanatory duck, marl to tail, on Scientific… Read the rest “Science Art: Topography of a Duck, by Maynard F. Reece.”
Science Art: The Sodium D-line Observed with a Four-Prism Spectroscope by Florence Museo FirST
One of a series of videos in which white-gloved technicians from the Florence Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica (Science and Technics Foundation) operate antique scientific equipment, demonstrating… Read the rest “Science Art: The Sodium D-line Observed with a Four-Prism Spectroscope by Florence Museo FirST”
Manned Mars mission in billionaire’s sights.
Washington Post reflects on the future of space exploration. Rather than the will of a great nation, today it takes a determined billionaire to send a man to Mars:
… Read the rest “Manned Mars mission in billionaire’s sights.”Billionaire Dennis Tito,