Ireland’s RTÉ Brainstorm reveals how researchers are turning ordinary personal computers into a virus-killing supercomputer and recruiting gamers to solve puzzles that figure… Read the rest “Turning the virus into a videogame.”
From the USGS:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Aerial image and satellite derived image of Florida lakes, by Richard P. Stumpf, U.S. Geological Survey.”This image is a cropped rendition of two aerial images that demonstrate satellite-derived cyanobacteria concentrations in surface waters from an area
A snapshot of SARS virus particles – the coronavirus responsible for Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome – taken at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the military … Read the rest “Science Art: Colorized transmission electron micrograph of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus particles (orange) found near the periphery of an infected cell (green).”
Fans of the scaly anteater otherwise known as the pangolin can take heart in Nature‘s latest report, that might not have been the source of coronavirus after all. But then what was?:… Read the rest “Possible pangolin exoneration as coronavirus source.”
Science News reports on the humble jellyfish-relative that lives in the bodies of Pacific salmon and undersea worms, and gets along fine without any mitochondria – the part of a cell… Read the rest “A salmon parasite can survive without oxygen, without mitochondria, and with a lot of mystery.”
The New York Times covers a building material that could be a boon to the planet, a bacteria-enriched concrete that cleans the air and grows more of itself:
… Read the rest “Living concrete photosynthesizes, reproduces itself – thanks to gelatin..”Now, an interdisciplinary team
Science magazine explores the gut-brain connection further with a study that finds gut bacteria can help us get over our fear responses… unless antibiotics have wiped them out: … Read the rest “Gut bacteria can help the brain conquer fear; antibiotics can make PTSD recovery harder.”
SONG: “Multicellular”.
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SOURCE: Science News, 17 October 2019, “Acrobatic choanoflagellates could help explain how multicellularity evolved,”… Read the rest “SONG: Multicellular”
Science News reveals the strange habits of little single-celled swimming organisms called “choanoflagellates” that tend to gather together in clusters for specialized… Read the rest “How we became multicellular”
Science News takes rhinovirus by the (one) horn with a study that finds a weak spot in the way the germ spreads inside our cells:
… Read the rest “Disabling one protein might (finally) cure the common cold. Thing is, the protein’s not in the germ – it’s in us.”Researchers have identified a key protein in humans that some
Science News has a novel way to map out potential climate change – by tracking where new viruses are showing up in the ocean:
… Read the rest “There are a lot of viruses in the Arctic ice – and they can show us where carbon is sinking.”Water samples taken during a three-year expedition around
Science Daily shouts about a Washington State University team that headed out to the geysers and hot springs of Yellowstone to cultivate a relationship with bacteria that might be able … Read the rest “Harvesting the hot-water bacteria that “eat and breathe” electricity.”
SONG: “Quantum Biology”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Scientific American, Vol. 27, Dec. 2018, “’Schrödinger’s Bacterium’ Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone”… Read the rest “SONG: Quantum Biology”
Science Daily reveals how MIT researchers used 3D printing to create the world’s first temporary tattoo made from living cells that act as sensors or circuits:
… Read the rest “A living tattoo that’s also a computer.”The cells are engineered
Teeny tiny critters, hanging out in the water. They’ve got cilia in a circle, waving around their tops as if they were wheels, spinning.
A glimpse of the microscopic… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate C from The rotifera; or, Wheel-animalcules, both British and foreign, 1889”
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