Scientific American really does incur a sense of wonder and mystery sometimes. Here’s a group of scientists who have turned a bunch of stem cells into a living mouse:
… Read the rest “Mouse made from scratch. (Just add stem cells!)”Xiao Xiao, as
Der Spiegel is sounding the call – psychedelics are coming back to the lab… and helping people heal:
… Read the rest “Acid therapy.”“I would welcome it if it were easier to use psychoactive substances
This is a Saturn V rocket, the largest, heaviest vehicle ever to hurl itself from our small ball of mud into the vastness of space.
At the time the photographer is snapping… Read the rest “Science Art: The Apollo 11 Launch.”
New Scientist’s “Short Sharp Science” blog is not very hopeful about the rocket that’s supposed to take us to Mars. Apparently, there was an oversight in the … Read the rest “Lights out for Ares?”
I can’t figure out why something like this wouldn’t have survived pretty much anything. National Geographic reports on the discovery of an armored, omnivorous, desert-dwelling… Read the rest “The Crocodillo”
That fella who wrote The Right Stuff got into the New York Times this week and allowed to do a little ranting about the big picture of humans in space:
… Read the rest “Wolfe on the Space Race”Unfortunately, NASA couldn’t present
An Australian amateur astronomer named Bird (or, IRL, Anthony Wesley) just spotted something slamming into Jupiter – a collision that’s been confirmed by the big science… Read the rest “… and Jupiter, while we’re at it.”
Yeah, we’re gonna do it. Stupid moon, all smug and silvery and sneaky, looking down at us all night long. Scientific American’s right. We don’t know *what* could be hiding… Read the rest “Bomb the moon.”
This is a fossilized insect, one of the Buprestidae (or Splendor Beetles or Jewel Beetles, from the collection of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.
Splendor… Read the rest “Science Art: Prachtkäfer aus der Grube Messel (Splendor Beetle of the Messel Pit)”
Don’t let this happen to you.
You may have heard of the giant prehistoric shark called megalodon. And maybe other megafauna, like Megalosaurus or even the mighty mechanical Megasaurus. But LiveScience is bringing… Read the rest “Big fish! Hungry fish!”
It’s free! You can get your name on a microchip placed aboard the next Mars Rover, just by filling in this form here!
It may take a couple of tries – the server is apparently really… Read the rest “Send Your Name To Mars!”
Reuters recently brought up some research into how salamanders do that whole regenerating limbs thing:
… Read the rest “If salamanders can do it…”In salamanders, the blood vessels contract quickly and limit bleeding when a limb
New Yorker valiantly tries to explain – scientifically – why it is that Americans (and the rest of the Western World) are getting so darned fat:
… Read the rest “Living large.”The elasticity of the human appetite
The archives of Space.com have produced an old but strikingly weird story about a strikingly weird discovery – a second moon orbiting invisibly around Earth:
… Read the rest “Loonier than Luna.”The 3-mile-wide (5-km)
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