Puzzling, slow-living microbes named after Loki, the trickster of Norse mythology, are helping solve one of evolution’s biggest mysteries: the origin of complex life Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532670-900-the-mysterious-microbes-shifting-humanitys-place-in-the-tree-of-life/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Study says Enceladus’ inner complexity is good for life
The interior of Saturn’s moon Enceladus is geochemically complex, making its subsurface ocean quite habitable for possible life, according to a new study from Southwest Research Institute. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/enceladus-ocean-moon-saturn-geochemical-complexity-life…
A new course from MoMA: “What Is contemporary art?”
A view from the fourth-floor collection galleries looking out onto the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Noah Kalina What is contemporary art? There’s no single answer. The instructors behind The Museum of Modern Art’s newest course What Is Contemporary Art? describe what contemporary art means […]
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The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
John Gruber: Ten years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the iPad on stage at the Yerba Buena theater in San Francisco. […] Ten years later, though, I don’t think the iPad has come close to living up to its potential. […] Software is where the iPad has gotten lost. iPadOS’s “multitasking” model is far more capable than the iPhone’s, yes, but…
Nanocontainers Introduced Into the Nucleus of Living Cells
fahrbot-bot shares a report from Phys.Org: An interdisciplinary team from the University of Basel in Switzerland has succeeded in creating a direct path for artificial nanocontainers to enter into the nucleus of living cells. To this end, they produced biocompatible polymer vesicles that can pass through the pores that decorate the membrane of the cell nucleus. In this way, it might…
Germany Rejected Nuclear Power — and Deadly Emissions Spiked
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: On New Year’s Eve, while the rest of the world was preparing to ring in a new decade, employees of the German energy company EnBW were getting ready to pull the plug on one of the country’s few remaining nuclear power plants. The license to operate the two reactors at the Philippsburg nuclear…
Antibiotic resistance genes can be passed around by bacteria in dust
Disease-causing bacteria living in dust can pass antibiotic resistance genes to one another, a study of samples of dust in public buildings suggests Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2231210-antibiotic-resistance-genes-can-be-passed-around-by-bacteria-in-dust/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Meet the narwhal, ‘unicorn of the sea’
This Arctic whale has the only spiral tooth found in nature. But there’s more to the narwhal than its unique tusk. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/narwhal-unicorn-of-sea-arctic-whale…
‘Frankenstein’ Material Can Self-Heal, Reproduce
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Researchers have now created a form of concrete that not only comes from living creatures but — given the right inputs — can turn one brick into two, two into four, and four into eight. […] For this project, Wil Srubar, a materials scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his colleagues wanted…
A robot equipped with real pigeon feathers flies like a living bird
Pigeons feathers are remarkably complex and understanding how they work has led to the first robot that flies like a pigeon, dubbed PigeonBot Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2230401-a-robot-equipped-with-real-pigeon-feathers-flies-like-a-living-bird/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…