Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are developing the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, a technology that could one day explore oceans under the ice layers of planetary bodies. The prototype was tested in arctic lakes near…
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The Discovery and Evolution of Fluorescent Proteins
It has been over 60 years since Osamu Shimomura et al. discovered Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)1. Since then, the color palette for fluorescent proteins has been extended to span blue through to far red,…
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Shocking Scientists: Iconic Bluebottle Jellyfish Revealed To Be Four Distinct Species
Ocean drifters once thought identical are actually several species. Genetics and ocean modeling uncover unexpected isolation. Bluebottles, also known as Portuguese man o’ war, were long thought to be a single species drifting across the…
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Yet Another Report On How Broken NASA IT Security Is
Keith’s note: here we go again. A new GAO report: Cybersecurity: NASA Needs to Fully Implement Risk Management is out. Yawn. Once a year GAO, NASA OIG, or some other authoritative body does a review of NASA IT security and they come back and say…
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Orcas discovered making tools from seaweed to ‘massage’ each other
- Southern resident killer whales in the Salish Sea off the U.S. state of Washington have been observed making tools from bull kelp stalks, biting off pieces and using them to massage each other in a behavior…
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Martian dust to dream homes: How microbes can build on the red planet
Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings on our neighboring planet over the past half-century have made this seemingly far-fetched idea increasingly plausible.
But don’t start…
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Can the Redfish, That Gulf Coast Culinary Icon, Be Brought Back From the Brink?
The Cajun cooking craze nearly wiped out the species native to Louisiana, but conservation stemmed the tide. Now the fish faces new threats
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just found its first exoplanet
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first…
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