This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreScience magazine mulls over new research showing how CRISPR gene editing successfully got rid of PERVs – porcine endogenous retroviruses – and made it that much easier to … Read the rest “Gene editing brings pig-to-human organ transplants one step closer.”
This is a diagram of how a solar eclipse works, or at least how they thought one worked in the 14th century. It might be one of the very first illustrations of its kind. As explained by the book’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Theorica Eclipsis Solaris, by Georg von Peurbach.”
Science Daily gives us research from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that show that the active ingredient in antibacterial soap can pass from mother to child and interfere with… Read the rest “Antibacterial soap could be messing up our unborn babies.”
PhysOrg looks back at our misunderstood ancestors with a University of Utah team that has revealed more about how – and when – Denisovans and Neanderthals split from each other,… Read the rest “DNA is rewriting humans’ family tree… again.”
Nature reports on Jordan’s new push to make itself into the future scientific powerhouse of the Middle East:
… Read the rest “Jordan: Techno-utopia.”Jordan’s leaders see science, engineering and technology as an engine
The Malibu Painter, who probably painted this, was not active in California’s surf culture, but in Egypt around the time the first Christians started showing up.… Read the rest “Science Art: Mummy Portrait of a Woman (73.AP.91), attributed to Malibu Painter.”
Science Daily gets us a better look than ever before at how much dark matter is out there, where it is, and what it’s doing out there:
… Read the rest “Good picture of dark matter.”In a presentation today at the American Physical
Nature has the story of an international team led by Portland-based reproductive biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov, who used CRISPR gene-editing to erase a potentially fatal heart ailment… Read the rest “We’ve edited the genes of human embryos now.”
Nature has more on a Tahitian lab’s plan to use Wolbachia bacteria to wipe out mosquitoes:
… Read the rest “Bacteria could rid the South Pacific of mosquitoes within a decade.”The mosquito problem could be solved in the Society Islands — a part of French Polynesia that
Butterflies of South Asia and Central and South America.
Pretty butterflies. Or, as James Duncan and Sir William Jardine called them, Foreign Butterflies.
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Nature is absolutely not trying to cause any panic with news that injecting baby brain cells into older mice keep them younger and healthier longer:
… Read the rest “Babies’ brain cells add years to mice’s lives.”Previous studies have suggested that
Science Daily investigates the process of dying – or rather, Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). Although people report very similar NDEs across cultures – looking down at their… Read the rest “Does your tunnel come after the white light?”
Nature reports on scientists with big drills in Iceland, trying to find out how it was that Surtsey Island came rising up from the ocean in the 1960s:
… Read the rest “50 years ago, Surtsey Island came into being. Now, we’re drilling to find out how.”It will be the most detailed look ever at
SONG: “I Had A Fever”.
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SOURCE:Can Microbes Encourage Altruism?,” Scientific American, 17 Jul 2017, as used in the post “Does kindness come from… Read the rest “SONG: I Had A Fever”
There’s a thing in Australia called “noodling,” where hobbyists look through opal mine spoil piles and find overlooked bits of precious stones. Syfy Wire has a report… Read the rest “Amateurs find a nearby star by looking through pro astronomers’ old data.”
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