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 some of us are more genetically… Read the rest “Unintentional twins.”
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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, they’ve found the chemical… Read the rest “Learn more with sleep-in-a-pill!”
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… Read the rest “Turning off old age.”
Snikt.
Symmetry unveils the biological oddity of animals with organic metal parts:
… Read the rest “Snikt.”The metals accumulate after molting, as the animals grow into adulthood. Researchers monitored the percentage
SONG: We Climb.
SONG: “We Climb.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: “Fossil fills out water-land leap”, BBC News, 25… Read the rest “SONG: We Climb.”
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:
… Read the rest “What is it?”The museum has more than 28 million insect species
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:
… Read the rest “A Cowardly and Superstitious Lot.”What’s a realistic training regimen?
I didn’t give
Science Art: Butterfly Tongue
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:
… Read the rest “Worms. Inside you. Making you better.”He left the wrap on for several days to make
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 in mice (full story… Read the rest “Too clean for comfort (or “We’re composed of membranes too.”).”
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:
… Read the rest “Spray-on skin.”Within the next five years, Atala aims to build a portable version for the battlefield
SONG: All Our Tomorrows
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SOURCE: “DNA Retrieved from 1,000-Year-Old Vikings”… Read the rest “SONG: All Our Tomorrows”