The Leakey Foundation reveals what we know about the newest proto-human species to be given a name, Australopithecus sediba – and what these guys tell us about the way we learned to… Read the rest “New missing link: The ape that walked like we do.”
Nature reports on a peculiar, passionate project led by Mexican scientists who are trying to save an endangered species by transplanting hundreds of fir trees to higher, cooler elevations,… Read the rest “Researchers are moving a *forest* uphill to save monarch butterflies.”
Phoning home from the next world over.
This is how it looked half a century ago.
You can find more James Burns illustrations for the Apollo mission here.
[via Humanoid History… Read the rest “Science Art: RCA Lunar Communications by James Burns”
Science Daily puts the beekeeper’s foe, the varroa mite (believed to be a key player in Colony Collapse Disorder), in a new light. The parasite had long been thought to be a blood-sucker,… Read the rest “The honeybee’s greatest foe isn’t after their blood – it’s sucking their *fat*.”
The University of British Columbia, via Science Daily, wants us to know that they’ve taken stem cells and used them to grow perfect little blood vessels, just like the ones inside … Read the rest “Growing perfect little human blood vessels in a dish – and a mouse”
Medical Xpress (via PhysOrg) reports on a long-term Boston Children’s Hospital study of institutionalized children from Romanian orphanages – the Bucharest Early Intervention… Read the rest “Deprived kids feel the effects two decades later.”
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This is the cover of an early science fiction hit, Robert Cromie’s A Plunge into Space, which was in print from 1890 to 1910. It’s about a scientist, Henry Barnett,… Read the rest “Science Art: A Plunge into Space, book cover, 1890.”
Nature shows us how politics is blinding science:
… Read the rest “The Hubble is broken, and the gov’t shutdown means no one’s fixing it.”Hubble’s mission operations are based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where most employees are on involuntary
Australia’s WA Today reveals how one stray cat killed 40 chicks and forced a protected bird colony to move elsewhere to try to survive:
… Read the rest “A single feral cat destroys a colony of endangered birds.”The Mandurah fairy tern breeding program has
I’m trying to parse this some other way, but Digiday is sure making it seem like this “topic prompter/rough draft creator” software is a step towards programming a machine… Read the rest “Forbes is replacing articles editors with robots now?”
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An image of an arum, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Aroideae, 1 album, consisting of plates from Heinrich Wilhelm Schott’s Aroideae. The artist… Read the rest “Science Art: Helicodiceros crinitus Schott by J. Strohmayer / Anstalt v. Reiffenstein & Rösch in Wein.”
Science News gets the dirt on how we use space hardware to discover what penguins are eating:
… Read the rest “Penguin choices: Either the scientist comes and makes you puke, or else your whole family’s poop gets photographed from space.”Because Adélie penguins cluster together at a predictable rate, researchers have figured out
Science News gives us the latest on New Horizon’s flyby of Ultima Thule, giving us our closest look at the furthest object we’ve ever visited:
… Read the rest “A First Look at Ultima Thule”The last best view of Ultima Thule
Science Daily reveals an environmentally friendly GMO – a new variety of pothos ivy that University of Washington researchers designed to remove chloroform and benzene from the… Read the rest “Genetically-altered houseplants clear indoor air.”
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