The smallest vertebrates discovered so far are flea toads, which live at the limit of how small any vertebrate can get. Science’s new flea toad, Brachycephalus dacnis, sits in the palm of a researcher. (Credit: Lucas … [+] Machado Botelho / Projeto Dacnis) Lucas Machado Botelho I have shared news about several species of extremely … Read more
Simulated images of the cosmos from the DC2 simulated sky survey conducted by the Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) from the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). DC2 simulated five years of image data as will be generated by the Rubin Observatory during LSST. Credit: LSST DESC On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists … Read more
What if we took the “terrestrial” out of “extraterrestrial”? Scientists recently explored the intriguing possibility that alien life may not need a planet to support itself. At first glance, planets seem like ideal places to find life. After all, the only place where life is known to exist is the Earth’s surface. AND earth it … Read more
For the first time, scientists in China reprogrammed a woman’s fat cells to turn them into insulin-producing pancreatic cells, which reversed her type 1 diabetes. The move adds to a growing body of evidence that reprogrammed stem cells could one day be used to treat or cure chronic disease. The patient treated in the latest … Read more