Science News reveals the secret that makes Clostridium difficile infections so tough to treat – an outer barrier called “the S layer” that protects the gut bacteria… Read the rest ““Difficult” bacteria has chainmail to protect it from antibiotics.”
There’s a new space telescope getting ready to do its thing now, but here’s a look back to when the last one was brand new. It’s a NASA image hosted by the San Diego Air and… Read the rest “Science Art: The Hubble Space Telescope is lifted into the workstands…, 1990”
Space.com introduces a new wrinkle in the growing space-junk problem. There’s so much stuff flying around us, we’re no longer sure where it came from or how long it’s… Read the rest “Somebody’s rocket is about to crash into the moon. We’re not really sure whose.”
An ad from the first issue of the Journal of the Society for Informational Display. This machine could receive up to 26 teletype messages of 145 characters each (so longer than pre-2017 tweets),… Read the rest “Science Art: United Aircraft Display Transmssion Generator ad, 1964.”
Popular Science shares Volvo’s vision for the next generation of automobile manufacture. Not only are they using electric motors, but they’re putting together the vehicles… Read the rest ““Mega-casting” will replace lots of little car parts with one big piece of metal.”
New Scientist has a different kind of drug story, about primatologists in Gabon who have spotted chimpanzees rubbing their wounds with winged insects – apparently using the bugs… Read the rest “Chimpanzees use insects as medicine.”
Science News covers a device that coaxes amphibians’ cells to remember how to regrow amputated arms and legs:
… Read the rest “Drug device spurs lost limbs to regrow… in frogs, at least.”“The cells of the frog already know how to make frog legs,” having done
This is a European cherry fruit fly, one of those creatures whose names say exactly what they are: a fruit fly that lives on cherries in Europe. The image came from the 1920 edition of Nordisk… Read the rest “Science Art: La Mouche des cerises (Rhagoletis cerasi), d’après une ancienne encyclopédie suédoise, 1920”
The U.K.’s National History Museum celebrates the unexpected discovery of Arctic sponges that feed on 3,000-year-old fossils:
… Read the rest “Fossil-eating sponges found on the Arctic seabed.”The fossilised remains of an ancient ecosystem
New Scientist reveals a new kind of medical material created by MIT researcher Xuanhe Zhao- a sticky-on-one-side wound dressing that can treat gut injuries by sealing up wet, flexible … Read the rest “Duct tape for your guts.”
This is a pair of water-voles looking ready for a Wind in the Willows-style adventure, only without any waistcoats or trousers. They’re featured in a chapter on “The Rabbit”… Read the rest “Science Art: Water-voles, 1911.”
New Scientist looks down from on high with Europe’s Tropomi satellite and finds clusters of climate-altering methane “super emitters” – places where the greenhouse… Read the rest “Satellites spot the biggest methane sources. (They’re not cows.)”
Wired recently ran a fun story about one man making a difference – a cybersecurity guy named P4x, who noticed that state-sponsored North Korean hackers were trying to break into his… Read the rest “The guy who took down North Korea’s internet.”
IEEE Spectrum reports on a research team that has created a new method for recycling the environmentally risky chemicals used in lithium-ion batteries – the kind of batteries used… Read the rest “These recycled lithium-ion batteries are outperforming new ones.”
An image of science in the abstract, the spirit of science as imagined at the dawn of the Space Age, from the National Postal Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institutions.
From the description… Read the rest “Science Art: 5c The Sciences single, U.S. Postal Service, 1963.”
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