A toilet powered by mushrooms
CTV News has an item from University of British Columbia researchers who have found an alternative to Port-a-Potties and camp toilets that doesn’t need all […]
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Science Art: Illustration of a Southern Sierra Nevada fisher
This is a mustelid, a relative of weasels and wolverines, called a fisher. The scientific name is Pekania pennanti. They’ve never been very common, and […]
Eye implant reverses blindness
Nature reports on an electronic retinal implant that has successfully allowed people with age-related macular degeneration to see again: The implant, which measures 2 millimetres […]
Satellites are the weak link in keeping secrets.
Wired has an unsettling bit of tech reporting on how easy it is to see nearly all of our secrets with about $800 worth of […]
Science Art:Vergleich der Aufnahme von RNA und modR in der Zelle, 2018
A diagram of two kinds of RNA doing their thing inside a cell (which is converting instructions from DNA into some kind of protein that […]
Covid vaccine boosts life-saving cancer treatment.
Nature just released a “huh, go figure!” bit of preliminary research showing better outcomes for patients with melanoma or lung cancer who had a COVID-19 […]
Making embryos from human skin
BBC recently reported on scientists taking DNA from human skin cells and fertilizing it with sperm to create a non-egg embryo – or at least […]
AI detects melanoma with 99% accuracy.
Northeastern Global News reports on a positive use for artificial intelligence, with a system that outperforms other techniques by helping doctors spot potentially deadly skin […]
Science Art: Ribbon schematic of the 3D structure of the protein triose phosphate isomerase
Jane Richardson drew this by hand and then colored it in back in 1981. It’s a protein molecule, or a diagram of how things move […]
Making batteries out of concrete.
As in the building material. MIT News reports on researchers who have gotten 10 times the power out of a reformulated battery that’s made from […]
Science Art: Yellow and blue, old and new, 2025
This is a photo from 10 days ago of stars millions of light-years away (so the picture is of things long, long before October 3). […]
Skeleton sculpting of Stone-Age China
PhysOrg reports on archaeologists studying “bone modification,” a custom that seems to have been practiced among the first city-dwellers in southern China, who set up […]
Science Art: Instrumento de Geographia y Cosmographia, 1606
This is a tool from Theatro del Mvndo y de el Tiempo, a book of star maps by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, Miguel Perez, and Sebastian […]
Prehistoric Patagonian predator ate giant crocodiles
Reuters reports on a discover discovered in southern Argentina that apparently outdid T. rex and carnosaurus in its ferocity. A fossil of the colossal Cretaceous […]
Musicians don’t feel pain like other people.
Is it worse? No, according to Science Alert. They’re sharing research that shows musical training actually increases tolerance for pain: Research has also found that […]