Auto-brewery gut bacteria get you drunk
A special type of a well-known intestinal bacterium could be responsible for some cases of severe liver disease, according to new studies. Scientists from the Capital Institute of Pediatrics in China discovered the…
Artificial tongue to lick fake whisky
Who else but Scottish engineers would think of using an artificial tongue to differentiate between whiskies? A new paper published in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal Nanoscale describe how they built the tiny…
History in the Blood
Molecular detectives find soft, biological material in hard, fossilised bones of animals and humans. The material bears witness to everything from hominin skin colour and dinosaurs’ kinship with birds to the Incan…
Australian skies: David Malin Award
This image won the David Malin Award, a prestigious astrophotography contest organised by the Central West Astronomical Society. Astrophotographer David Malin declared “Melbourne Moon” the overall winner. Photographer Phil Hart captured this image…
Van Gogh could have painted this
Why is the corona hotter than the surface beneath it? Vincent van Gogh’s painting techniques may hold the answer.
The evolution of music
Music can evolve by the process of natural selection, the same way species evolve in the natural world.
Machine playing instruments
Who would have thought that machines could ‘play’ instruments. PureTune used an Atari 800XL (organ), HP Scanjet 3P (vocals), Texas Instrument Ti-99/4A (guitar) and a hard-drive powered by a microcontroller (bass drum and cymbal)…
Were Neanderthals the earliest cave artists?
An improved dating method has revealed that cave paintings in Spain are older than previously thought.
DNA strands self-assemble to make nanoscale artworks
Artistically crafted nanotechnology could enable the development of new tools to deliver drugs directly into disease sites in the body.
