Nice when they’re fighting the spread of disease rather than the other way around. Science News looks into how to train giant, explosive-sniffing rats to find early signs of TB infections… Read the rest “Trained rats can detect tuberculosis.”
Scientific American recently ran a blog by Finnish psychologist and philosopher Frank Martela, who explains why Finland’s national skepticism about happiness might make them,… Read the rest “Finns aren’t happy about being named the happiest country on Earth.”
Seems a little metaphorical, but it’s really happening. Popular Science reports on a rapid influx of cuckoos from Russia literally taking over American bird populations from within… Read the rest “Russian cuckoos are taking over Alaska.”
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Jellyfish. Deep sea medusae. By Ernst Haeckel and A. Giltsch.
From Vol. 4, pt.11-13 of Report on the scientific results of the voyage of /i>H.M.S. Challenger during… Read the rest “Science Art: Ptychogena Pinnulata, 1882.”
Science Daily finds a correlation between national satisfaction and participation in the Eurovision song contest. Even if your country loses, you and your neighbors will be happier than… Read the rest “Countries in the Eurovision contest are happier overall.”
Nature reports on a water filter based on computer pioneer Alan Turing’s only biology paper that appears to clean salt out of water three times better than conventional filters: … Read the rest “Alan Turing’s idea makes water three times cleaner.”
MIT News reports on a study that turns back the clock, at least as far as intestinal cells are concerned. Mice who’ve done without food for 24 hours alter their metabolisms in such a … Read the rest “Fasting rejuvenates aging stem cells.”
Where plants come from. (And hay fever.) These are as seen through a pretty powerful microscope – magnified 500 times – and drawn by a German pharmacist and chemist living in… Read the rest “Science Art: Tab X from Ueber den Pollen by Carl Julius Fritzsche, 1837.”
Science News looks at a strange structure of matter (one we’ve discussed on here in the past) that regularly repeats itself like a crystal… but the repeated structure is in … Read the rest “Two new kinds of time crystals.”
Scientific American steps into the fast lane, unexpectedly, on the island of Redonda. People wiped out the local (invasive) populations of rats and goats, and instead of taking centuries… Read the rest “Island lizards are evolving – in one year’s time.”
I’m not sure how new this science really is – it’s pigs, by the way, not people, in case you were worried – but The Guardian is excited at the prospect of scientists… Read the rest “Disembodied brains kept alive for 36 hours.”
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“Here am I floating in a tin can,” indeed.
Here’s how much room some of the first humans in space –… Read the rest “Science Art: NASA spacecraft comparison, by D. Meltzer.”
I mean, who wouldn’t, really? Science looks back at evidence that Stone Age people traveled to Naxos, Crete, and other islands across the sun-kissed Med:
… Read the rest “Neanderthals cruised the Mediterranean”A decade ago, when excavators
Mmm. Switches. Communication.
The Guardian has some sweet potato evolutionary research that unintentionally drives a wedge in the idea that the presence of the humble yam in both places indicates that prehistoric Polynesian… Read the rest “Sigh. Maybe a sweet potato *doesn’t* mean that prehistoric Polynesians visited South America after all.”
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