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:
… Read the rest “Compost burials really work.”The results, presented February
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.”
Science News shares a small but disturbing Belgian study that found solid particles of air pollutants around developing babies in the womb:
… Read the rest “Air pollution can leave soot inside pregnant mothers’ placentas.”Samples of placenta collected after women in
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”.
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”
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.”
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.””
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”
…Science News reveals, they switched to their singular diet within human history – the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms:
… Read the rest “Pandas didn’t always live only on bamboo. In fact…”Although modern giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca
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.”
Science News gets the dirt on how we use space hardware to discover what penguins are eating:
… Read the rest “Penguin choices: Either the scientist comes and makes you puke, or else your whole family’s poop gets photographed from space.”Because Adélie penguins cluster together at a predictable rate, researchers have figured out
MIT researchers have devised a technique to create a solid, 3D structure and then reduce it to one-thousandth its original volume:
… Read the rest “MIT shrinks objects to the nano-scale.”“It’s a way of putting nearly any kind of material into
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?”
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.””
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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