PhysOrg has the brilliant news about using itty bitty flecks of precious stones to boost the power of medication to treat exceptionally stubborn cases of leukemia:
… Read the rest “Tiny diamonds zap cancer.”Daunorubicin is currently
The Register is watching the skies as LADEE, NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer probe, heads for its ultimate fate:
… Read the rest “Kamikaze moon robot back on track.”LADEE took off atop a US Air Force Minotaur
This is a buckyball crystal, a form of carbon that no one had ever seen until the 1980s. Now, it’s starting to get used in all kinds of unexpected ways. Formally, this stuff is is known… Read the rest “Science Art: Fulleride Cs3C60 by Dmitri Zaitsev and Joffe Ilya Naftolevich”
BBC has one good reason to get a good night’s sleep tonight – because sleep boosts the number of healthy brain cells in yer head:
… Read the rest “Sleep makes the brain cells grow.”Sleep ramps up the production of cells that go
Or at least speaks his mind, now that he’s retired. Houston Chronicle lets Chris Kraft, NASA’s first flight director, put it all out there on what the agency could be doing better… Read the rest “Apollo legend dishes dirt on NASA.”
University of California, Riverside, researchers have made a very small breakthrough in the way computers work… one that might lead to big changes soon. They’re using atom-thin… Read the rest “Graphene makes *different* computer chips.”
Reuters plunges headlong into THE FUTURE with Austrian researchers who are growing miniature brains – “cerebral organoids” – from stem cells:
… Read the rest “They’re growing miniature human brains from stem cells.”To create their
Found on Archive.org’s collection of Fieldiana.
A “catafalque” is a kind of dais on which a coffin rests when it’s on display, as for a state funeral.
Scientific American shies away from putting it that bluntly, but still. Psychologists at UC Santa Barbara found that just considering the scientific method, in all its logical simplicity,… Read the rest “Thinking about science makes us better people.”
Space.com brings us hurtling into the future with the science of quantum thrusters… a real-life warp drive:
… Read the rest “NASA engages the warp drive.”A warp-drive-enabled spacecraft would look like a football with two
Discovery takes a long look at a slow death… watching life leave cell by cell… bit by bit:
… Read the rest “Death is slow. Slower than we thought.”David Gems from the Institute of Health Aging at University College London, who led
RIP, John Mainstone, custodian of the Pitch Drop Experiment. Solid or liquid, it will continue to ooze so slowly. New Straits Times marks the end of an era, but the middle of the world’s… Read the rest “Overseer of the longest experiment has passed on.”
This NASA snapshot was found in the archive.org copy of Charles Bourland and Gregory Vogt’s The Astronaut’s Cookbook, Springer Science+Business Publications, 2010.
National Geographic reveals what really goes on in a plant’s… mind?… when sap-thirsty plant killers are on the prowl:
… Read the rest “Plants hear herbivores coming. No, really.”[University of Wisconsin researcher John] Orrock
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