An albino lizard hatchling, one of the first to be gene edited with CRISPR. (Doug Menke)
Skittering among the Caribbean flora are anole lizards, tiny reptiles no bigger than a finger’s length. Sporting shades of grey, brown and green, island life has spurred the evolution of some 150 species there.
As a result, anole lizards have become a key scientific model for research into how reptiles develop and evolve. But scientists have been missing a critical element: the tools to investig ...read more
USGS geologist measuring the temperature of a fissure prior to the 2018 eruption at Kīlauea in Hawaii. USGS/HVO.
So, first off, I apologize for the clickbait headline, but don't worry, there actually is a payoff here. What I'm going to say is 100% true. Geology isn't just a pile of rocks, no matter what you might think. Sure, there are rocks involved ... but "geo" doesn't mean rocks. It means Earth, so when we talk about geology, we're talking about the our planet -- and our planet is mo ...read more
The SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule approaches the International Space Station on July 27, 2019. (Credit: NASA)
A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft will return to Earth on August 27, bringing back experiments from the International Space Station (ISS), including investigations into how moss grows in space.
The capsule originally launched July 25 from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, taking two days to reach the ISS. It successfully completed its cargo resupply mission and has been do ...read more
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(Inside Science) -- Extinction wiped out their closest family members as well as most of the ancient reptiles of comparable size. But the largest lizards still on the planet, the Komodo dragon, survived due to a lucky combination of mediocre habitat on their home islands and unintended human interventions.
“You would have thought the Komodo would have been wiped out, and yet it survived,” said Rick Shine, a biologist at Macquarie University in Sydn ...read more
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Want to live forever? Or at least well into old age? Results from a new study suggest optimism might be part of the equation. A large-scale study indicates those with a bright outlook on life lived as much as 10 percent longer, and stood a better chance of making it past 85.
"This study ... suggests that optimism is one such psychosocial asset that has the potential to extend the human lifespan,” Boston University School of Medicine clinical research psyc ...read more
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