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Compost burials really work.

20 February 2020 grant 0

Science News digs into the science behind leaving the world a slightly more fertile place when you go, by having your body naturally composted after death:

The results, presented February

… Read the rest “Compost burials really work.”

A “cell-synthesized yarn” can stitch you up with your own skin cells.

6 February 2020 grant 0

Science Alert unravels the findings of a group at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Bordeaux, who have spun skin cells into a “human textile” … Read the rest “A “cell-synthesized yarn” can stitch you up with your own skin cells.”

Air pollution can leave soot inside pregnant mothers’ placentas.

20 September 2019 grant 0

Science News shares a small but disturbing Belgian study that found solid particles of air pollutants around developing babies in the womb:

Samples of placenta collected after women in

… Read the rest “Air pollution can leave soot inside pregnant mothers’ placentas.”

What breathes sulfur, eats fool’s gold and could show us where life came from?

10 September 2019 grant 0

The Independent puzzles over a biological riddle – a strange microbe that doesn’t need oxygen or sunlight to get by. Instead, it thrives deep underground living off fool’s… Read the rest “What breathes sulfur, eats fool’s gold and could show us where life came from?”

SONG: Bodiless

24 May 2019 grant 0

SONG: “Bodiless”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Vox, 17 April 2019, “Scientists: We kept pig brains alive 10 hours after death. Bioethicists: ‘Holy shit.’… Read the rest “SONG: Bodiless”

We’ve 3D-printed a complete heart out of a patient’s own cells.

24 April 2019 grant 0

Science Daily reports on an Israeli research team who created a whole heart – not just tissues or pieces – from scratch – or, at least, from cells taken from a patient’s… Read the rest “We’ve 3D-printed a complete heart out of a patient’s own cells.”

The pigs were dead for 10 hours, and then they weren’t: “The ethics of experimenting on partially reanimated brains is uncharted territory.”

18 April 2019 grant 0

So this is a study from Nature, but I like the way Vox covered it. Yale scientists, using a kind of artificial blood (and machine heart and kidney), have brought the brains of slaughtered pigs… Read the rest “The pigs were dead for 10 hours, and then they weren’t: “The ethics of experimenting on partially reanimated brains is uncharted territory.””

from https://www.lindahall.org/louis-jurine/

Science Art: Fig 2. Monoculus quadricornis fuscus, a copepod female by Mlle. Christine Jurine

10 February 2019 grant 0

from https://www.lindahall.org/louis-jurine/

This is a copepod, a critter related to the Spongebob character Plankton. It’s from a book called Histoire des monocles that came out in 1820. The scientist who wrote it, Louis Jurine,… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 2. Monoculus quadricornis fuscus, a copepod female by Mlle. Christine Jurine”

Pandas didn’t always live only on bamboo. In fact…

1 February 2019 grant 0

…Science News reveals, they switched to their singular diet within human history – the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms:

Although modern giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca

… Read the rest “Pandas didn’t always live only on bamboo. In fact…”

Researchers are moving a *forest* uphill to save monarch butterflies.

22 January 2019 grant 0

Nature reports on a peculiar, passionate project led by Mexican scientists who are trying to save an endangered species by transplanting hundreds of fir trees to higher, cooler elevations,… Read the rest “Researchers are moving a *forest* uphill to save monarch butterflies.”

Penguin choices: Either the scientist comes and makes you puke, or else your whole family’s poop gets photographed from space.

3 January 2019 grant 0

Science News gets the dirt on how we use space hardware to discover what penguins are eating:

Because Adélie penguins cluster together at a predictable rate, researchers have figured out

… Read the rest “Penguin choices: Either the scientist comes and makes you puke, or else your whole family’s poop gets photographed from space.”

MIT shrinks objects to the nano-scale.

18 December 2018 grant 0

MIT researchers have devised a technique to create a solid, 3D structure and then reduce it to one-thousandth its original volume:

“It’s a way of putting nearly any kind of material into

… Read the rest “MIT shrinks objects to the nano-scale.”

In observance of Thanksgiving week: How do wombats poop cubes?

21 November 2018 grant 0

Answering the unspoken question, yes, we are a little feverish here in the guild headquarters. Science News answers the explicit question, however. By having very limber wombat intestines… Read the rest “In observance of Thanksgiving week: How do wombats poop cubes?”

We’re getting bigger: “It will be harder to feed 9 billion people in 2050 than it would be today.”

13 November 2018 grant 0

Gemini Research News has some bad news for the Earth’s growing population. It turns out that our farms will face some trouble because we’re going to be bigger, healthier, and… Read the rest “We’re getting bigger: “It will be harder to feed 9 billion people in 2050 than it would be today.””

Weird life force: Quantum-entangled bacteria.

29 October 2018 grant 0

Scientific American reveals how some strange research is bringing the weirdness of the subatomic world – where things can be (more or less) in two places at once – into living… Read the rest “Weird life force: Quantum-entangled bacteria.”

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