Compost burials really work.
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 […]
biology
A “cell-synthesized yarn” can stitch you up with your own skin cells.
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 […]
Air pollution can leave soot inside pregnant mothers’ placentas.
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 […]
What breathes sulfur, eats fool’s gold and could show us where life came from?
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 […]
SONG: Bodiless
SONG: “Bodiless”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Vox, 17 April 2019, “Scientists: We kept pig brains alive 10 hours after death. Bioethicists: ‘Holy shit.’,” as used in […]
We’ve 3D-printed a complete heart out of a patient’s own cells.
Science Daily reports on an Israeli research team who created a whole heart – not just tissues or pieces – from scratch – or, at […]
The pigs were dead for 10 hours, and then they weren’t: “The ethics of experimenting on partially reanimated brains is uncharted territory.”
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 […]
Science Art: Fig 2. Monoculus quadricornis fuscus, a copepod female by Mlle. Christine 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. […]
Pandas didn’t always live only on bamboo. In fact…
…Science News reveals, they switched to their singular diet within human history – the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms: Although modern giant pandas […]
Researchers are moving a *forest* uphill to save monarch butterflies.
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 […]
Penguin choices: Either the scientist comes and makes you puke, or else your whole family’s poop gets photographed from space.
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 […]
MIT shrinks objects to the nano-scale.
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 […]
In observance of Thanksgiving week: How do wombats poop cubes?
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 […]
We’re getting bigger: “It will be harder to feed 9 billion people in 2050 than it would be today.”
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 […]
Weird life force: Quantum-entangled bacteria.
Scientific American reveals how some strange research is bringing the weirdness of the subatomic world – where things can be (more or less) in two […]