Unintentional twins.
The Los Angeles Times recently reported on some trouble with DNA testing. No, it wasn’t a new OJ Simpson-style courtroom blunder, but the discovery that […]
biology
Learn more with sleep-in-a-pill!
OK, I’m overstating for effect, but it’s not hard to imagine someone taking this discovery in Science News and marketing it that way. After all, […]
Turning off old age.
Stanford researchers have discovered something strange about microscopic worms, ScientificBlogging reports. These nematodes have specific genes that regulate the aging process: The researchers examined the […]
SONG: We Climb.
SONG: “We Climb.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Fossil fills out water-land leap”, BBC News, 25 Jun 2008, as used […]
What is it?
CNN, not normally an outlet for science news, covers the mysterious story of a brand new bug at London’s Natural History Museum: The museum has […]
A Cowardly and Superstitious Lot.
I can’t say anything more about SciAm’s interview on the science of Batman. The article speaks for itself: What’s a realistic training regimen? I didn’t […]
Science Art: Butterfly Tongue
Click to embiggen vastly Is it smiling at you? From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
Worms. Inside you. Making you better.
That’s the big idea behind this New York Times piece about the doctor who gave himself hookworms to see if they’d cure his allergies: He […]
Too clean for comfort (or “We’re composed of membranes too.”).
Nature recently published a story that should shock the clean freaks among us. Researchers have found that common disinfectants lower fertility and cause birth defects […]
Spray-on skin.
PopSci‘s got skin in a can. I mean it. An aerosol. You spray it on burns. It’s skin in a can: Within the next five […]
SONG: All Our Tomorrows
SONG: “All Our Tomorrows” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “DNA Retrieved from 1,000-Year-Old Vikings”, LiveScience.com, 28 May 2008, as used […]