A certain frequency of sound can alter your brain. And maybe fight Alzheimer’s?
MIT News has the (low-pitched) buzz on how listening to 40 Hz sounds have cured mice of Alzheimer’s symptoms by changing their brainwaves: This noninvasive […]
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Someone else’s DNA got in there: Engineering a bull to create another bull’s semen.
Nature reports on a new agricultural practice that has some weird ramifications for humans – a genetics process for making one male create sperm cells […]
Harvesting the hot-water bacteria that “eat and breathe” electricity.
Science Daily shouts about a Washington State University team that headed out to the geysers and hot springs of Yellowstone to cultivate a relationship with […]
Science Art: Four views of the Alvan Clark & Sons workshop…, from Scientific American, Sep. 24, 1887
Here, an astronomical family is building a 36-inch refractor telescope known as the Great Lick Refractor in the 1880s. It’s named for James Lick, an […]
Denmark to build energy-producing islands (that you can live on).
Inhabitat talks up a pretty cool design project that’s taking shape off Copenhagen, where the government has announced plans to build Holmene, a complex of […]
2,000-year-old tattoo needles (made from cactus spines) found in an old drawer.
Science News reports on the historic find of skin-art tools from the American West … a discovery made by looking through some excavated artifacts that […]
Science Art: Progne purpurea. Purple martin, by Howard Jones, 1886
Click to embiggen A bird in its home (grown on a vine, fashioned by humans). Cute little guy, too. I found this on the Scientific […]
“Hacked” yeast used to brew THC and other cannabis compounds.
Nature has some, uh, heady science in the form of brewer’s yeast genetically modified to produce chemicals usually found in marijuana – the healthy ones […]
We’ve got a bedside bioprinter to replace your injured skin directly on you.
Science Daily passes the word from Wake Forest about medical engineers who’ve come up with a functional bioprinter that can replace real skin layer by […]
Science Art: Korowaar, page 488 of The Cruise of The Marchesa, 1889.
This image is from the British Library archive, a book called The Cruise of the Marchesa … With maps and … woodcuts drawn by J. […]
China says they’re ready to put solar panels in orbit.
Not the kind on a self-sufficient satellite, but, as Nature tells us, the kind used to beam clean solar power back to Earth: The idea […]
We’ve discovered a tarantula with a horn on its back.
National Geographic has details that are bound to give arachnophobes THE WILLIES, but for the rest of us, there’s this rather large spider in Angola […]
Science Art: Ossicula Organi Auditus Diversorium Animalium (Aural-Organ Bones of Diverse Animals), by Athanasius Kircher
A close-up of the tiny ear-bones of a few kinds of animals, including human beings. This is a detail of a page from Musurgia Universalis, […]
A moment of silence for Opportunity.
The rover was sent on a 90-day mission. It kept operating on Mars for 15 years, 28 miles and 5,000 charge cycles. Today, NASA said […]
Mathematical bees. The insect, not the competition. They know their numbers!
The Guardian demonstrates mathematical skills in creatures that don’t even have internal skeletons, with Australian research that shows bees handling some rather sophisticated calculations… for […]