Someone Wants to Try Hatching a Dinosaur
First off, Dr. Grant was right — dinosaurs did evolve into birds, birds are descended from dinosaurs. And now, there is a scientist who thinks he can “hatch” a dinosaur-like creature. Not by...
View ArticleThings We Saw Today: Calvin and Hobbes Private Investigations
A boy. His tiger. They’re cops. Splashy rendering by Franceso Francavilla. (Via Popped Culture) There are nine more days to pledge funds (donations can be as small as $1) to back Diagram For...
View ArticleAwesome Geek Jewelry Roundup
We came across some really wicked geek jewelry today and put them all in one handy post for you to browse! Above is the Dino Hug Claws ring by Verameat, if you’d like some dinosaur claws wrapped...
View ArticleThe UK Will Not Allow Human-Animal Hybrids to Happen All Willy-Nilly
Those in charge of such things in the UK are calling for stricter regulations on scientific research into human-animal hybrids, saying that some of it is getting too weird to be morally acceptable....
View ArticleAll Polar Bears Can Trace Lineage Back to Ireland, Insert...
Geneticists studying the DNA of bears have come to a very festive conclusion about polar bears: they can all trace their lineage back to brown bears from Ireland. There are so many jokes to be made,...
View ArticleLady Cheats At Living Long, Shows Us How
Humanity has long searched for a way to cheat death and Dutch woman Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper did just that for 115 years until she passed away back in 2004. She thought it was all the fish she...
View ArticleRosalind Franklin, In Her Own Words and Letters
Rosalind Franklin might be officially the first historical lady of the geek world who I talked about on The Mary Sue. Well, there were a bunch of posts we wrote in the two weeks before the site went...
View ArticleThings We Saw Today: Blizzard Offers In Game Kittens in Hurricane Relief...
Shortly after Blizzard took the plunge and began offering exclusive in-game pets to World of Warcraft players for real money they started offering them to benefit charity. The Cinder Kitten above goes...
View ArticleBiologist Proposes to Biologist Girlfriend in Fragments of Actual DNA
The last science class I took was AP Biology in 2003. Well, that’s not true, the last science class I took was Astronomy 101, and before that Honors Physics, but I dropped out of the latter after a...
View ArticleDutch Police Request DNA to Solve Cold Case, Alleged Murderer Submits His Own
After 16-year-old Marianne Vaatstra was raped and murdered in the Netherlands in 1999, the case quickly went nowhere. Those responsible were were never found, though the police conducted a thorough...
View ArticleResearchers Create Transforming DNA-Based Gel That Remembers Its Shape,...
A team of researchers at Cornell University have created a gel built from synthetic DNA that remembers its own shape, and can return to that form after being reduced to a free-flowing, formless goo....
View ArticleHealthy Humans Carry More Mutated Genes Than Once Thought, Still No Powers
You can eat all the salads in the world or run track into infinity, but as perfectly health conscious as some of us are, the human race will always remain an imperfect being. Well, on the genetic...
View ArticleFlorida Luxury Condos Test Doggie DNA to Identify Who’s Not Scooping the Poop
Need proof that the rich really aren’t that different from you and me? How’s this — they don’t pick up their dog’s poop when they think no one is looking, either. No, not even when they’re only...
View ArticleQuadruple Helix DNA Discovered In Human Cells, Is The Double Rainbow Of...
A team of researchers at Cambridge University have spotted the first instances of DNA with four helices present inside human cells. The Cambridge team hopes their findings could have implications for...
View ArticleScientists Code All 154 Shakespeare Sonnets and MP3 Files With DNA
I recently picked up a 32 gig micro-SD card, and I was impressed by how much data could fit into something so small, but that’s nothing compared to the research being done in DNA data storage. Science...
View ArticleThis Pistol Fires DNA Bullets To Tag Criminals In The Act Without, You Know,...
Whether or not you’re a gun fan, you’re pretty used to seeing police officers — and even some private security guards toting guns around to protect citizens and property. But not every criminal...
View ArticleToday in Geek History: Watson and Crick Discover DNA
60 years ago today, one of the most important discoveries in the history of modern science was announced, as is right and proper, at a bar. On February 28, 1953 in the Eagle Pub, James Watson and...
View ArticleHerring Sperm Coating Makes Fabrics Flame Retardant
Looking for a way to make sure your clothes don’t burst into flame? A team of researchers at the Polytechnic University of Turin has come up with a method I’m willing to wager you’ve never tried...
View ArticleKangaroo Poo DNA Test Helps Researchers Count And Manage Species - The...
Researchers in Australia have developed a fast, easy, and kind of gross way to to track populations on different species of kangaroo and wallaby across the continent with a quick and dirty DNA test...
View ArticleHappy 93rd Birthday, Rosalind Franklin! Google Got You a Doodle! - Well, it's...
You can be forgiven if you’re not familiar with today’s Google Doodle of Rosalind Franklin. Though she did much of the important X-ray crystallography work that set the stage for James Watson and...
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