Mighty bacteria make gold. Not a cold, gold.
Michigan State University biochemists (and science artists!) have made a germy philosopher’s stone: “Microbial alchemy is what we’re doing – transforming gold from something that […]
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Titan is making DNA. Or could be.
The Daily Galaxy says Saturn’s big moon, Titan, could be a life-making machine: Saturn’s moon Titan has many of the components for life without liquid […]
Heroin: now with all the pain relief, and none of the addiction.
That’s the tempting pitch made by a team from the University of Adelaide and University of Colorado, who’ve come up with a way to block […]
Building cells from the outside in.
Scientists have come one step closer to creating artificial life by building a cell membrane from scratch: “We don’t understand this really fundamental step in […]
SONG: Bioluminescence at the Dragon Vent
SONG: “Bioluminescence at the Dragon Vent.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: Squid Pro Crow. SOURCE: Based on “Exotic creatures discovered living at […]
Super-scum. Again.
This is more covering-the-coverage than flogging a new discovery, but the New York Times is keeping tabs on the process of turning pond scum into […]
Science Art: ATP Synthase, Essential Cell Biology.
This video is from Essential Cell Biology, 3rd Edition by Alberts, Bray, Hopkin, Johnson, Lewis, Raff and Roberts (and apparently not from Tokyo Institute of […]
Corn syrup not so sweet.
Princeton University researchers have found the bitter truth about HFCS: The first study showed that male rats given water sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in […]
Wetware upgrade.
BBC dives into the future of computing, when we replace cold, hard silicon with a strong brew of liquid thinking machines: What distinguishes the current […]
Love is envy (chemically).
Science Daily reveals the chemical link between passionate desire and passionate jealousy: Previous studies have shown that the oxytocin hormone has a positive effect on […]
Squirt memory up your nose.
The venerable Lockergnome recently looked at memory technology – specifically, a nasal spray that boosts your ability to learn: In a research report featured as […]
We found the seeds.
Reuters carries the story of the first seed of life to be discovered on a comet: The latest findings add credence to the notion that […]
DNA evidence, made to order.
New York Times brings up the unsettling possibility that future biochemically savvy crooks will be capable of fudging DNA evidence: The scientists fabricated blood and […]
That healing fizz.
So you get a cut – ouch! – and you put a band-aid on it, but first, you make sure you disinfect it with hydrogen […]
Vampire batteries for implants eternal!
New Scientist pulls back the veil from a team of Canadian biotech researchers who have built a yeast-based fuel cell that can run on blood: […]