Alzheimer’s can be transmitted person-to-person. (Surgically, that is.)
Nature discusses how the proteins that cause havoc in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients can be transmitted from person to person: They stress that their […]
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Seattle schools prove later waking makes students more productive.
NPR reports on a year-long, city-wide study that proved one of those obvious things that for some reason we never act on: Teenagers do a […]
We now know what killed everything in Earth’s worst mass-extinction event.
Science Alert lets us know that oceanographers have determined that the event that killed 70 percent of all land species and 96 percent of all […]
Color-changing, warm-blooded ichthyosaurs.
Earth Archives talks about a recent fossil discovery that changes the way we picture marine life in the age of dinosaurs: An incredible new specimen […]
Science Art: Storage and Launching of A.4. Rocket Projectile, 1940s.
Click to embiggen This is how Allied intelligence pictured German V2 rockets being used during World War II. A decade and a half later, this […]
She might’ve been Plague Victim Zero.
Science News unearths the 5,000-year-old remains of a Scandinavian woman who seems to have been the oldest known victim of the Black Death: DNA extracted […]
Chickens with Fitbits. Future of farming.
Digital Trends looks at how wearable devices could revolutionize farming and keep chickens healthier: Sitting neatly between these two size extremes is a new project […]
There’s an easy fix for gerrymandering, if Congress can count two decimal places.
In Forbes, Johns Hopkins Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics Steven Salzberg has put forward a modest mathematical proposal to solve some of […]
It’s not quite “Please open the podbay doors, HAL,” but almost….
Buzzfeed reports on an unexpected personality clash with an AI on the International Space Station – an incident that could affect how similar synthetic companions […]
Science Art: A Magnetic Wormhole by J. Prat-Camps, C. Navau & A. Sanchez, 2015.
Click to embiggen From the Wikimedia Commons description: (a) The field of a magnetic source (right) is appearing as an isolated magnetic monopole when passing […]
Is polarization inevitable? Can we *not* agree to disagree?
The American Council on Science and Health thinks disagreements over facts – even ones based on scientific evidence – may well naturally lead to the […]
We really did walk with unicorns.
PhysOrg explains that they were really Elasmotheriums – 3.5-ton primordial rhinos known as “Siberian unicorns” – but they really did survive into the era of […]
Science Art: Atom Nucleon
“Atom” used to be the indivisible unit of matter, the thing smaller than which it was impossible to go. Now we know there are things […]
Bots and fake news: how it works
Science News is a leetle late to the game, but that’s the new reality. Researchers have completed some early studies on how fake news gets […]
In observance of Thanksgiving week: How do wombats poop cubes?
Answering the unspoken question, yes, we are a little feverish here in the guild headquarters. Science News answers the explicit question, however. By having very […]