Bats may have the key to treating AIDS
Bats can’t contract AIDS, but a disease that’s destroying their populations creates a similar problem experienced by those with the virus. We’ve written about white nose syndrome before and the […]
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Watch an asteroid fly-by this afternoon
The lumpy, peanut-like 4179 Toutatis will pass within 37 million miles of the Earth this afternoon, and Slooh is all over it. Toutatis passes us by about once every four years, […]
Shape-shifting gel could change how doctors administer drugs
Imagine pouring a liquid gel into a wound that solidifies, stays where you pour it, and slowly dispatches drugs to the area. It wasn’t what researchers at Cornell University were going for, but […]
Extroverted gorillas live longer
Those popular kids may be onto something. Researchers at American zoos spent the last 18 years watching their resident gorillas for certain trends. They observed who was outgoing and playful […]
Could this be the earliest dinosaur?
Nyasasaurus isn’t a new discovery, but this is the first time it’s been considered a dinosaur. Bits of the small dino were discovered in the 1930’s in Tanzania’s Manda Beds and […]
MIT makes a tiny Transformer
No, not a power converter. We’re talking about Optimus Prime and the like. Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms have created a tiny robot that assembles itself into […]
Voyager 1 is almost in interstellar space
Very soon, space probe Voyager 1 will be probing outside our solar system. According to the team at NASA, the probe is sending back some very strange data from its […]
The robot fake-out
You would expect living creatures to try and pull the wool over one another’s eyes, but robots seem a bit more straightforward. Still, researchers have taught bots to fake out […]
Goodnight, sweet spidernaut
Nefertiti was a spider that boldly went where only a few spiders went before, so it’s safe to say she had a pretty full life. The 10-month old “Johnson jumper” died […]
So, what exactly did Curiosity find?
In short, carbon. Specifically, chlorinated methane gas, which contains carbon. Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument also found traces of water, sulfur, and perchlorate salts, but naturally the building blocks […]
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