The sixth brightest star in the night sky, Capella, is the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere constellation Auriga the Charioteer. This star is also one of the points in the Winter Hexagon. Source: https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/capella-is-the-stellar-beacon-of-auriga-the-charioteer…
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Gene Editing To Produce ‘Super Dad’ Livestock
Scientists have produced gene-edited animals they say could serve as “super dads” or “surrogate sires.” The BBC reports: The pigs, goats, cattle and mice make sperm carrying the genetic material of donor animals. The researchers used a hi-tech gene editing tool to knock out a male fertility gene in animal embryos. The animals were born sterile, but began producing sperm after…
Cloned testicles let goats father the offspring of another male
Biologists have created pigs, goats and mice whose testicles produce the sperm of a different male and which breeders could use to pass on desirable traits to many more offspring than normally possible Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2254419-cloned-testicles-let-goats-father-the-offspring-of-another-male/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Genetically modified goats can produce cancer drugs in their milk
Genetically modified goats can make the bowel cancer drug cetuximab in their milk, which could cut its high cost and allow more people to use it Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2245887-genetically-modified-goats-can-produce-cancer-drugs-in-their-milk/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Pollux: The brighter twin star
Pollux, the brightest star in the constellation Gemini, blazes in a golden light next to its bluish-white heavenly twin, Castor, in the evening skies of the Northern Hemisphere’s spring. Source: https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/pollux-not-castor-is-geminis-brightest-star…
Use Big Dipper to find star Capella
You’ve heard of the “pointer” stars of the Big Dipper? They point to the North Star. You can also use them to find the star Capella, aka the Goat Star. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/big-dipper-bowl-points-to-bright-star-capella…
Quantum Computer Made From Photons Achieves New Record
Slashdot reader hackingbear shared this article from Scientific American: In the race to create a quantum computer that can outperform a classical one, a method using particles of light (photons) has taken a promising step forward. Jian-Wei Pan and Chao-Yang Lu, both at the University of Science and Technology of China, and their colleagues improved a quantum computing technique called boson…
Goats reveal their feelings with the sound of distinctive bleats
When goats were played a recording of a ‘happy’ animal bleating, they noticed when there was a shift to ‘sad’ bleats in the recording, and vice versa Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2209218-goats-reveal-their-feelings-with-the-sound-of-distinctive-bleats/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Ancient urine reveals early prehistory of domestic sheep and goats
Stone Age farmers living in Turkey became more reliant on domestic sheep and goats over a 1000-year period, according to a study of the animals’ preserved urine Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2200169-ancient-urine-reveals-early-prehistory-of-domestic-sheep-and-goats/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Haunted Wrigley Field and the Curse of the Billy Goat
One of the most well-known ballparks in the world first opened its doors in 1914, in Chicago, Illinois. What would become Wrigley Field was originally owned by Charles Weeghman, who owned the team called the Chicago Whales of the Federal League, both of which would fizzle out in 1915, leading Weeghman to buy the Cubs… Continue reading Haunted Wrigley Field and the Curse of the Billy Goat