Scientific American really does incur a sense of wonder and mystery sometimes. Here’s a group of scientists who have turned a bunch of stem cells into a living mouse:
… Read the rest “Mouse made from scratch. (Just add stem cells!)”Xiao Xiao, as
SONG: “Like Salamanders Do” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Regenerated legs no big trick for salamanders”… Read the rest “SONG: Like Salamanders Do”
Reuters recently brought up some research into how salamanders do that whole regenerating limbs thing:
… Read the rest “If salamanders can do it…”In salamanders, the blood vessels contract quickly and limit bleeding when a limb
New Yorker valiantly tries to explain – scientifically – why it is that Americans (and the rest of the Western World) are getting so darned fat:
… Read the rest “Living large.”The elasticity of the human appetite
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A striking image of an invasive exotic species (native to China, Russia and Korea) that was introduced into continental North America, where local fish populations… Read the rest “Science Art: Northern Snakehead – Channa argus”
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Or at least you can be, if MSNBC and the Soft Matter journal are to be believed. They’re publishing research that shows how cotton candy can be used to rebuild our bodies:
… Read the rest “You’re made of cotton candy.”First, you
Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium:
From the video library at Science Hack, where this hypnotic sequence is described as: “A 16-mm movie made in the 1950s by the late David Rogers… Read the rest “Science Art: Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium.”
PopSci believes that pink iguanas are real. Because, as it turns out, pink iguanas are real!
… Read the rest “Pink Iguana!”Even after the first pink iguana sighting came in 1986, no scientists bothered to actually examine
A desert-dwelling fox of North Africa.
For Foxing Day.
From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, MA, [found here… Read the rest “Science Art: Fennec, Webster’s New International”
This Lovecraftian landscape is jasmine tobacco. Not waving, photosynthesizing.
From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
Some organic geometry from The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Antarctica, LiveScience reveals, isn’t the wasteland it appears. In fact, it has more species than the Galapagos Islands:
… Read the rest “Life On Ice.”A team of 23 scientists from five research institutes,
Biology News Net had a study not so long ago into how our brains recognize music. Researchers at University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music and Department of Brain and Cognitive… Read the rest “That’s a C-sharp, right?”
From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, MA, [found here.]
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