Science Daily introduces us to a newly discovered Amazonian wasp that’s singularly well-endowed in the stinger department:
… Read the rest “This jungle wasp has a stinger almost as long as the rest of its body.”“The stinger of the new parasitoid wasp called
Nature looks at a bold new frontier (and whole new money-making opportunities) opened by fiddling around with cannabis DNA:
… Read the rest “Genetically modifying cannabis… for science and for profit.”On 25 June, the FDA announced its approval of Epidiolex — a treatment
How a young person can launch “any number of air balloons” without the risk of setting the neighbors’ corn ricks on fire – by using a gas stove with a chimney like… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 353, Wessel’s Gas Stove”
Science Daily looks at a University of Alberta study that has found something interesting about how intelligence forms in our brains – by isolating a different part of parrot brains… Read the rest “Studying the seat of parrot intelligence”
Science Daily reports on Rensselaer Polytechnic researchers who have had further success in devising a blood-test that assesses whether children are on the autism spectrum:
… Read the rest “A blood test for autism passes second trial”Results
The dominant idea is that humans genetically are inclined to live 120 years and no longer. But a new study published in Science demonstrates that that’s not necessarily so –… Read the rest “There might not be a limit to human longevity.”
Though it looks like postmodern architecture (Eero Saarinen, maybe?), this is actually inside your salad.
It’s a helical granum of a thylakoid stack, the part … Read the rest “Science Art: Helical Granum, by Kelvinsong”
Science News shows how the marshmallow game – give a pre-teen one marshmallow now or let them wait, staring at it, for n minutes to get two later – is changing over time. Today’s… Read the rest “Kids are proving more patient than ever.”
Science Daily reveals that the Milky Way is more like the Greasy Way, with the discovery of lots of “grease-like molecules” floating in the void between the stars:
… Read the rest “We’re a greasy galaxy”Astronomers
Nature reveals that natural gas is quite a bit more polluting than we thought – with less-than-airtight facilities leaking 60% more methane than estimated, or about $2 billion in… Read the rest “Natural gas: Not all that clean (but we can fix it!)”
The Guardian explores what the research doesn’t say about letting kids zonk out on their video games and iPads and computer screens and whatnot:
… Read the rest “Screen-time for kids: Science says… well… maybe not all that bad?”Andy Przybylski, associate professor
It’s hot here. Spent all day at a swim meet. Non-competitors not allowed in pool. There’s a chain now that makes ice cream using frozen nitrogen. Science art… Read the rest “Science Art: Nitrogen with Secret Binary Robot (Brain Freeze Ice Cream Wallpaper Detail), editor’s own work.”
Science Daily takes us to the Gulf of Mexico, where scientists have finished the first-ever study of a nursery for baby manta rays:
… Read the rest “The manta ray nursery.”Located in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas at NOAA’s
Nature shows us how to rebuild body parts from scratch – well, as long as we’re planarians, that is. But still, it’s one specific kind of cell that lets them rebuild their… Read the rest “One cell lets a planarian regenerate any body part.”
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Over a million people could live here, in a double-cylinder colony in space.
From the NASA Ames Research Center’s concepts of future space colonies (as imagined… Read the rest “Science Art: Cylindrical Colonies: Interior view looking out through large windows, by Rick Guidice”
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