
Smithsonian - 1 day 15 hours ago
Pluto is now the most well known of the outer worlds beyond Neptune and the darling of the solar system...

Ars Technica - 1 day 15 hours ago
"Mummified remains sold online exhibit signs of biodeterioration, yet sellers provide no safety guidance."...

Huffington Post - 1 day 17 hours ago
Fat Marmot Week beginning Monday is mostly just for fun, but it also has a serious side.

Retraction Watch - 1 day 17 hours ago
Six editors and nearly 60 advisory editors of Games and Economic Behavior resigned after the journal's publisher decided not to renew the editor-in-chief's contract. In late July, Elsevier told Herv Moulin, a business professor of the University of Glasgow, his six-year tenure as editor-in-chief of the journal would end in December. Moulin told Retraction Watch … Continue reading Editors of economics journal resign after Elsevier doesn't renew EIC's contract...

GeekSpin - 1 day 17 hours ago
From schools and hospitals to airplanes and restaurants, peanuts are banned in a lot of places, as they can trigger life-threatening allergic reactions in sensitive people. Now, a Minnesota food-tech startup called Nurtured Nuts thinks it has a version that doesn’t need to be. Using CRISPR gene editing, a powerful technology that lets scientists precisely […] Read the original article here: Scientists develop peanut that will not trigger allergies...

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 27 min ago
Baltimore in August: I was out on my early-morning walk, I don’t even know the temperature or humidity or feels-like combination, I’ve given up caring but all numbers were high, and I ran into a neighbor going the same way so we walked together for a bit. We were neither one of us built for […] The post Baltimore in August appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .