New Scientist has the creepy story of a parasitic worm that controls fish behavior by controlling how they see the world:
… Read the rest “Puppetmaster parasite steers fish – from inside their eyeballs.”When the parasite is young, it helps its host stay safe from predators.
Nature has what must be the least appetizing life-extension program yet discovered:
… Read the rest “Someone tell Peter Thiel. Consuming young fish poop makes old fish live longer.”The findings were posted to the bioRxiv.org preprint server on 27 March1 by Dario Valenzano, a geneticist
Science News reveals the unappetizing trick of a newly discovered gecko species. The lizard sheds its large scales to wriggle out of predators’ mouths:
… Read the rest “Scale-shedding gecko a nasty mouthful for predators”All species of Geckolepis
New Scientist covers a shark who managed to make babies despite being separated from any males:
… Read the rest “Life… finds a way. With a self-impregnating leopard shark.”Leonie the zebra shark (Stegostoma fasciatum) met her male partner at an aquarium in Townsville,
Science Daily reports on the cybernetic insects that can be used alongside drones to quickly map out unfamiliar terrain:
… Read the rest “Insect biobots are ready to respond to disasters.”“The idea would be to release a swarm of sensor-equipped
Nature reports on a new technique that has successfully converted skin cells into fertile egg cells and brought babies to term without ever implanting them in a womb:
… Read the rest “These mice were born from skin, not eggs. And were never in a womb.”The report marks the
This is how an alga (that’s how it’s spelled in the book) reproduces. It looks like an underwater nasturtium.
Here, it’s being used to demonstrate what exactly RNA is… Read the rest “Science Art: The Life Cycle of Acetabularia mediterranea, 1960.”
This is a slug in a bottle.
To be more specific, it’s “Illustrations of the experiments of H. Regius to prove the circulation of the animal spirits in the slug.… Read the rest “Science Art: Woodcut: H. Regius proving spirits in the slug, in flask, 1654.”
Popular Mechanics describes the rat-cell engine that powers this stingray robot:
… Read the rest “Living robot: mechanical stingray swims with rat-cell muscles.”“Roughly speaking, we made this thing with a pinch of rat cardiac cells, a pinch of breast implant,
Nature has followed history’s longest-cultured human embryos:
… Read the rest “Human embryos grown for two weeks in lab.”Developmental biologists have grown human embryos in the lab for up to 13 days after fertilization, shattering
Wired investigates an organism – not even an animal, doesn’t even have internal organs or nerves, much less a brain – that still somehow learns to avoid unpleasant things… Read the rest “How can slime mold learn? But it does….”
Stat goes to the front-line laboratories in French Polynesia, where scientists are beating back mosquitos in revolutionary ways:
… Read the rest “At Marlon Brando’s island, the war on mosquitos is being won.”Hervé Bossin and his team have released more than 1 million
Nature cuts my last potential for productivity to the quick with news that researchers have made mouse sperm in a dish:
… Read the rest “So we’ve made sperm. No man necessary.”Researchers in China say that they have discovered a way to make rudimentary
Science Daily clinches it – not because of inaccuracy, but because of the sheer despair in considering that we’re not hearing anyone in our galaxy because everyone else has… Read the rest “Awfullest science headline of the month: “The aliens are silent because they’re dead.””
MedXpress details the chromosome damage that seems to be caused by economic inequality; in other words, the more educated you are, the more protected your baby is against chromosome damage… Read the rest “The less educated the mother, the shorter the newborn’s telomeres.”
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