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Scientists find link between dementia and brain blood flow – News spot for NPR

Why rubbing beats scratching for itch relief – News spot for NPR

Why parents choose to vaccinate their children – News spot for NPR

Yellowstone Grizzlies protection hearing – News spot for NPR

Forget coral bleaching. Warming oceans are killing reefs and dissolving their skeletons – PBS NewsHour

Algae growing on a branched coral. Photo by Leggat et al. Current Biology, 2019

This new nanotech could help clean up Earth’s microplastics – PBS NewsHour

Scientists have designed reusable nano-sized reactors — called nanocoils — that can trigger microplastic breakdown. The work could someday be applied to wastewater, cutting off the flow of microplastics before they are flushed into the environment. Photo by REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Compare Apollo 11 NASA drawings with photographs (video) – PBS NewsHour

This everyday chemical was cast aside. Its replacement might be making cats sick – PBS NewsHour

As manufacturers voluntarily phased out PBDEs because of health concerns in both pets and humans. New research suggests their replacements may be just as bad. Photo by JJIMAGE/via Adobe Stock

By making plant roots grow deeper, these geneticists hope to curb climate change – PBS NewsHour

A new genetic discovery could help researchers trap more climate-altering carbon underground. Photo by kateleigh/via Adobe Stock

7 places you’re most likely to get sunburned – PBS NewsHour

CRISPR gene-editing ‘eliminates’ HIV in some mice. What does it mean for humans?- PBS NewsHour

For the millions of people infected with HIV, the best way to manage the disease is antiretroviral therapy, which can lower the amount of HIV replicating in the body to undetectable levels. But antiretroviral therapy (ART) can only manage HIV, never eliminate it. A new study of mice charts a preliminary path to eliminating this medication dependency, through gene editing with CRISPR. Photo by DigitalGenetics/via Adobe

Are commercial honeybees making wild bees sick? – PBS NewsHour

A honeybee gets ready to enter a flower. Photo by Serghei Velusceac/via Adobe Stock

Fake blood pumps life into this robotic fish – PBS NewsHour

Top-down view of the fanning tail fin, which propels the lionfish robot. Video by James Pikul with speed increased 4-fold

Should Hyping Edible Insects Focus on the Experience Instead of the Environment?- NPR’s The Salt

Newly discovered properties of a mixed metal oxide provide insight for catalytic applications – American Institute of Physics Scilight

Need to check your blood sugar? Just scan your contact lens. – Massive Science

Why Are Scientists So Bad At Recycling? – Scientific American

Why Are Scientists So Bad at Recycling?

 

YouTube Scripts for the PBS Digital Studios show It’s Okay To Be Smart:

The Deadliest Flu Season in History?

How Habits are Formed

Why Do We Cry Sad Tears?

It’s Okay to Fart

Why Do We Itch?

 

Why Do We Talk To Ourselves? – SciShow

 

Blog posts for ScIU: Conversations in Science at Indiana University:

Two-faced particles can solve a drug delivery dilemma – ScIU

Yin Yang symbol with dark and light blue sides.

Knock knock: Nano-delivery! Activating the immune system with viral structure – ScIU

Green sphere with spikes depicting a virus structure

Nanomaterials that inhibit bacterial growth – ScIU

Examples of objects on a size scale from an x-ray wavelength at 10 picometers (1 × 10^-11 meters) up to the statue of liberty at 100 meters. Each increment on the scale line increases by an order of magnitude, or 10 times. Other images include a water molecule (1 × 10^-10 meters), a carbon nanotube (1 × 10^-9 meters), an antibody (1 × 10^-8 meters), a virus like particle (1 × 10^-7 meters), a bacterium (1 × 10^-6 meters), a strand of hair (1 × 10^-5 meters), a single pixel (1 × 10^-4 meters), an ant (1 × 10^-3 meters), a penny (1 × 10^-2 meters), an adorable black labrador retriever (1 meter), and the width of an end zone ( shorter length) of a football field (1 ×10^1 meters).

Bio-inspired nanomaterials: Viruses aren’t all that bad – ScIU

An outside and inside view of a spherical virus-like particle (VLP), and its building blocks: a coat protein and a scaffolding protein.

Other blog posts:

Odd Oozing From the Trees – The Quiet Branches

Slime flux zoom out