Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete by AMOS ZEEBERG
‘A Frankenstein material’ teeming with — and ultimately made by — photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce. Published: […]
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Betty Pat Gatliff, Whose Forensic Art Solved Crimes, Dies at ...
She used clay to reconstruct the faces of the missing and murdered, in the hope of helping police […]
Tree Stumps Are Dead, Right? This One Was Alive by ...
When two ecologists hiking in New Zealand discovered this stump, they had to figure out how it could […]
How Insects Cope When Blood Rushes to Their Heads by ...
Grasshoppers have to deal with blood pressure issues when they are upside down. Published: January 13, 2020 at […]
The Secret That Helps Some Trees Live More Than 1,000 ...
By comparing very old and young ginkgos in China, scientists found an explanation for their longevity. Published: January […]
Why Is Air Pollution So Harmful? DNA May Hold the ...
It’s not just a modern problem. Airborne toxins are so pernicious that they may have shaped human evolution. […]
Ronald Melzack, Cartographer of Pain, Is Dead at 90 by ...
The theory that he and a colleague devised deepened medicine’s understanding of pain and how it is best […]
Seeking a New Lens to Study Same-Sex Behavior in Animals ...
A team of researchers say that science has relied on a human heterosexual baseline and made faulty assumptions […]
Vera Rubin Gets a Telescope of Her Own by DENNIS ...
The astronomer missed her Nobel Prize. But she now has a whole new observatory to her name. Published: […]
How’s Your Internship Going? This Teen Found a Planet by ...
Wolf Cukier, 17, was analyzing brightness of stars during an internship with NASA last year when he made […]