New Scientist is considerably cheerier about another transgenic thing coming out of the sub-continent – a new generation of high-protein potatoes:
… Read the rest “Do not fear the super-spud.”Subra Chakraborty and colleagues
Wired is feeling… apprehensive… about the latest progress made by the “Indian superbug” gene:
… Read the rest “Fear the superbug. Fear it.”This week, I’m at ICAAC (the annual Interscience Conference
Image from PHIL, the Public Health Image Library of the Centers for Disease Control.
It’s an old-fashioned fridge, as recommended by the Minnesota Board of Health in 1929 as a means… Read the rest “Science Art: 8655 (cut-away view of a “barrel”-type milk and cream cooler)”
It’s not just ants and naked mole rats that organize into eerily intelligent colonies, Discovery News says. Worms are getting in on the action, too:
… Read the rest “Worms, organize!”The study, published in the latest
Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University are using music (and audio engineering) to treat pain and depression – by mapping out emotional terrain in pop songs:
… Read the rest “Prescription pop.”Each volunteer
This is so going to trigger spam filters, but I don’t care. Science News has reported breaking news… that male ducks grow bigger penises when they’re around other males… Read the rest “Duck penis competition.”
Hurricane Igor, from the International Space Station.
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It’s happening now, the CS Monitor writes. The entire Lake Michigan ecosystem is collapsing:
… Read the rest “The Michigan extinction event.”The quagga [mussel] is found in all of the Great Lakes; the invasive species was introduced
There’s a great piece up at ScienceBlogs demonstrating how paleontology (and, even better, paleontological art) really works. It’s Darren Naish enthusing about a particularly… Read the rest “Humpbacked weirdosaur.”
New Scientist tells the story of dolphins using tools to hunt:
… Read the rest “Conching dolphins.”Simon Allen, a behavioural ecologist at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, was out on a routine survey when one of the
Discovery News digs deep for a story on things diamonds can do that are more than skin deep:
… Read the rest “Medical diamonds.”Virtually any kind of protein or chemical can coat nanodiamonds. When placed into the body, those
The BBC exposes a secret experiment by the man who brought us evolution: an island that Darwin turned into an artificial ecosystem:
… Read the rest “Charles Darwin: Terraformer”Ascension was an arid island, buffeted by dry trade winds
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NASA has a new collection on Flickr Commons.
It’s pretty awesome.
So is this wind tunnel, also known as the “ice tunnel” because it was studying that… Read the rest “Science Art: Two-Dimensional Low-Turbulence Tunnel”
…will beat those super-bugs. Science Daily reveals a brand new source for potent antibiotics:
… Read the rest “Frog skin super-drugs…”The scientists are currently screening skin secretions from more than 6,000 species
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