Nature reports on a new class of germ-fighting drugs that are light-sensitive, so they become active when the lights go on:
… Read the rest “Antibiotic switches on with the lights.”A drug that can be easily turned on and off could provide targeted
At the end of the 17th century, this was some weird and wild stuff – a fruit that in the Americas, they call “banana” (if I’m reading the Dutch text… Read the rest “Science Art: De XII Afbeelding (Banana) by Maria Sibylla Merian”
The Atlantic has a great piece on the E.T.-hunting radio telescope that China just built (it’s twice the size of Arecibo) with a little input from China’s greatest living science… Read the rest “China’s ready to make first contact with aliens.”
Indiana University psychology researchers have definitely proved, after 10 years of study, that a particular kind of video game, as part of a brief brain-training regimen, can keep age-related… Read the rest ““Brain training” video game beats dementia in trials.”
This is a sidelong look at the king of planets from NASA’s Image of the Day gallery.
The NASA folks say:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Jupiter: A New Point of View, by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran”This striking Jovian vista was created by citizen scientists
Science Daily has more on the Texas and Virginia researchers who looked over 12,112 kids’ experiences growing up and concluded spanking – free of all other factors –… Read the rest “Spanking makes their behavior worse”
New Scientist explains that the recipients, if there are any, could answer in about 25 years – enough time for a radio message to travel the 12 light years to GJ 273b, a habitable planet… Read the rest “We just sent a message to a habitable planet.”
New York Times has the latest high-water mark in our society’s ever-rising tide of irony – an antipsychotic medication that, as paranoid as this sounds, really does tell the… Read the rest “FDA OKs putting tracking devices in schizophrenia pills. (Yes. They really did.)”
“A representation is faithful if it has only one braid in its kernel.”
So, this is doctorate-level mathematics rendered as interpretative dance, and that is not a joke.
Science News shares new research about how Alzheimer’s can happen – and, maybe, how we can prevent it. Those amyloid proteins that build up in the brain and cause all the cognitive… Read the rest “Alzheimer’s protein can travel from the blood up to the brain.”
Ars Technica sums up research that kills the idea that the first Americans walked over Arctic ice from Russia. Instead, it really looks like humans had already been arriving by boat –… Read the rest “Florida Man kills Clovis-First Hypothesis – with a few buddies on boats.”
An owl and a bat, in German and Latin, as presented by Conrad Gessner in Icones Animalium Quadruped Viviparorum et Oviparorum.
This may have been more timely on… Read the rest “Science Art: Ordo Fecundus (Steinfurz und Flidermaus), 1553”
Popular Science introduces us to “The Plimp,” a vehicle that hopes to be a nearly unsinkable aircraft:
… Read the rest “Half-blimp, half-plane flying machine built with safety in mind.”With a rigid, winged body held underneath a massive helium-containing
Science News brings a new(-ish) perspective on the atrophied forelimbs of Tyrannosaurus rex. Those little arms were perfectly built for close-quarters slashing of prey:
… Read the rest “Laugh at the T. rex’s tiny arms… as they shred your frail body just like they were designed to.”[T]he roughly
Nature‘s report seems backwards, but there it is. Researchers have found a key to reversing old age is to kill off certain decrepit cells that never reproduce and never die:
… Read the rest “Killing old age by killing off undying cells.”In a 2011
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