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 A Lego brick on its own is nothing special. But link some of them together, and you could end up with anything from a medieval castle, to a pirate hideout or a space ship. Since 1947, the Lego company has released thousands of sets under the banner of a variety of different themes. Every one [...]  Sometimes I come across crazy parasite stories when I’m browsing scientific archives online. But this time was different, when a story came to me straight from the Dutch woodlands. A week ago, someone asked me to find out what was happening to some poor acorns that were found in a broadleaf forest. The acorns looked [...]  So you want achieve everlasting fame by becoming immortalized in the rocks of our earth? Well, move to Amsterdam and join the local mafia! For the reasons why, you’ll have to follow me as I tell the longer story. You and I will not live forever. When we die we will leave behind our bodily [...] Last week, the world learned of the first living organism that carries a synthetic genome. That that same genome contains the nucleic equivalents of both graffiti and poetry is less known… Unless you’ve been avoiding science news for over a week, you’ve been bombarded by news of the creation of the first ‘synthetic cell’ by [...] I came across a beautiful set of images created by German doctor / scientist / artist Fritz Kahn (1888 – 1968). In many of these images, he places the human body in an industrial context. The resulting combinations of technology and biology have a retro-futuristic feel to them, but are fare more than just a [...] |
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