The hands ARE NOT CLEAN! (Or: how germs could cause OCD.)
New Scientist reveals a possible irony of microbiology. It could be that obsessive-compulsive disorder – in which the brain gets stuck in loops of repetitive, […]
microbiology
Science Art: FAGOCITOSI BY RAFF by Raffmara.
Look, this isn’t funny, OK? This isn’t funny at all. If this wasn’t going on inside your body all the time, you would be SO […]
What’s made from blue cheese and cleans itself?
If Inhabitat.com’s on the money with this one, the answer could soon be “just about anything,” thanks to Swiss scientists who’ve used blue cheese fungus […]
SONG: “Antarctica Awakes!”
SONG: “Antarctica Awakes!” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica’s biggest subglacial lake”, Washington […]
Lovecraft report: Scientists set to disturb primordial lake, deep under Antarctic ice.
Who knows what dim, multiform entities could yet lurk for silent millennia beneath that hostile, white blanket of impervious snow and unrelenting wind? Washington Post […]
Crab grows garden on its claws
Nature reveals why the yeti crab will never go hungry. It grows methane-based bacterial gardens on its own claws: The yeti crab — so-called because […]
Plasma balls kill cholera, E. coli and Mad Cow.
Yeah, those funky electronic gizmos that sit on your desk and look oh sparkly! and not much else? Science Daily reports that they can turn […]
Liver brains.
MedicalXpress reveals a new source for nerve cells without stem cells – making neurons from liver cells: Fully mature liver cells from laboratory mice have […]
SONG: Turn Me Inside Out
SONG: “Turn Me Inside Out.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Gut instinct: Tantalising evidence that intestinal bacteria can […]
Gut attraction.
National Geographic looks at a new social network that matches “friends” based on their intestinal bacteria: MyMicrobes, which opened to the public last week is […]
Science Art: PDB_1h54_EBI by Jawahar Swaminathan and MSD staff at the European Bioinformatics Institute
Click to embiggen. I guess I’m on a Lactobacillus kick. This is not confetti celebrating a Lactobacillus party, and it’s not a photograph of what […]
Germ-free fabric
PhysOrg keeps itself clean with shirts, towels and unmentionables that’ll remain germ-free for good: University of Georgia researcher [Jason Locklin… an assistant professor of chemistry […]
SONG: Without the Sun
SONG: “Without the Sun.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Stress can shorten telomeres in childhood, Nature, 17 May […]
Viral solar.
PhysOrg brings us a teeny tiny bit closer to going green with an MIT project that offers solar power that reproduces virally: This dramatic improvement […]
Blood Falls.
National Geographic Expeditions takes an ominous look at aliens in Antarctica: A blood-red waterfall pouring out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys […]