Bob Collinst the University of Maryland Medical Center, a woman received a kidney for transplant that was delivered by drone.
It was test, but it was a real kidney being used to bring it to a real patient who needed it, the New York Times reports. Read more →
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Nature is never more marvelous that when it changes the hue out the window.
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Katie Bouman was in high school in Indiana when she first learned about the Event Horizon Telescope. As a doctoral student at MIT, she helped in the creation of an algorithm that helped devise imaging methods to piece together data from the system. Read more →
The University of Kansas has been handing out small stickers marked with an email address, phone number, and unique identification code, and asking people to attach them to the discal cell on the butterflies’ wings. Then record the date and location. That’s what Julianne Moore, of Northfield, did in her backyard last September. Read more →
Professor Alessandro Strum, a guest professor, is no longer welcome at the European particle physics research center CERN. Not after he offered his own scientific theory at a symposium on gender equity – that women are not as able at physics as men. Read more →
Humans are amazing when they put their minds to it.
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The person I picked up while Lyfting last night at the airport was exhausted. “It was like flying to Los Angeles,” he said of the more than three-hour flight from Boston. He was the victim of nature to an extent rarely seen, and he’s the yang to the yin of the focus of stories about Read more →
The notion of a Super Moon wasn’t even a “thing” until March 2011, when the moon came within 123 miles of the closest its ever been to earth Read more →
Almost 15 years to the day it first took its steps on Mars, the rover Opportunity is being declared dead today.
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Oh, for sure it’s not a raccoon climbing a building, but a cardinal is currently at the top of the list of animals that divert the nation’s attention from less important things. Read more →
You know those big heroic sendoffs that communities give their sports stars when they go off to a state tournament?
The robotics teams in Austin, Minn., got one this morning.
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Nine of the 10 states contending with the highest losses of county income voted for President Trump in 2016, including, in order, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama. Fifteen of the 16 highest-harm states were also red. States likely to benefit mostly voted for Hillary Clinton. Read more →
The Regeneron Science Talent Search is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. The finalists will be announced tomorrow Read more →
It is somewhat comforting that the nation can still be united enough to marvel at a chunk of ice in a river. Read more →
China today released the video of its lunar probe’s landing on the far side of the moon earlier this month.
Not surprisingly, at least for those of us who still are fascinated by space and its technology, it’s pretty cool. Read more →