Science Art: Chromista
An illustration from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “Biological Illustration” collection of chromista, which is a proposed kingdom of life. As in animal, vegetable, […]
microbiology
Life that can survive a full-on asteroid impact.
Mashable discusses the discovery at Johns Hopkins of microbes that are hardy enough to have traveled across the vacuum of space and then survived the […]
Science Art: Don’t wait – 70% are doomed, c. 1936
This is a poster from the WPA urging people to save their own lives … by getting tested for a sexually transmitted disease. The geometry […]
Science Art: NIH- NCI cancer research
An image of a cell, a neoplasm, from the National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine, the “Images from the History of Medicine” collection. […]
A toilet powered by mushrooms
CTV News has an item from University of British Columbia researchers who have found an alternative to Port-a-Potties and camp toilets that doesn’t need all […]
SONG: Dirt Poor
SONG: “Dirt Poor”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Dirty emotions: Microbes in soil may affect hormones tied to love, mental health and […]
Dirty love: Soil steering our emotions
PhysOrg reports on Flinders University researchers who have found that soil microbes can affect our gut biota, which in turn can influence our emotional lives, […]
So just how much life are we already spreading into space?
Mashable wants to know (along with NASA researchers) just what kind of critters are sticking to the International Space Station or surrounding it like an […]
A vaccine against salmonella
Food Safety Magazine reports on University of Florida researchers who are closing in on a medicine that could prevent potentially lethal, antibiotic-resistant food poisoning … […]
Smells can arm your gut defenses.
PhysOrg gets funky with research that demonstrates how off-putting smells that can signal the presence of disease-causing critters can also tell your gut it’s time […]
Mouth bacteria linked to colon cancer
Scientific American has new research that finds a connection between one subspecies of a bacterium commonly found in our mouths, Fusobacterium nucleatum, and the growth […]
Science Art: Amoeba. Actinophrys. by Philip Henry Gosse.
This is a scientific illustration done as a paper collage; that is, Philip Gosse took a sheet of paper, painted it as black as space, […]
SONG: Lady at the Generator
SONG: “Lady at the Generator”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Amsterdam UMC, 4 Jan 2024, “Tiredness Experienced by Long Covid Patients […]
What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?
Forbes looks into a year-long study hoping to determine exactly what it is that makes cheddar cheese taste like cheddar and not gouda or Swiss […]
Probiotics to treat long covid?
I know, I know, but this is a double-blind study with around 400 hundred subjects published in The Lancet. It’s a little more technical than […]