Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time

 

at 8/26/26 9:00am

Messing with the genetic code might have gotten a bit easier to do.

[Category: Science, genetic code, Genetics, ribosome, RNA, synthetic biology, translation]

— Preserving glow-in-the-dark art and fashion for future generations

 

at 8/25/26 12:59pm

Understanding unique photochemistry of such materials will help in conservation, storage, and exhibition.

[Category: Science, American Chemical Society, art conservation, chemistry, DayGlo, Fluorescence, glow in the dark, phosphorescence, textiles]

— Lab supply companies have been selling antibodies using manipulated images

 

at 8/25/26 10:16am

Image changes that would get a paper retracted are widespread among suppliers.

[Category: Science, antibodies, biochemistry, Biology, research fraud]

— Buyer beware: Those mummified remains might carry toxic spores

 

at 8/24/26 10:59am

"Mummified remains sold online exhibit signs of biodeterioration, yet sellers provide no safety guidance."

[Category: Science, Archaeology, Egyptian mummies, microbiology]

— Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway.

 

at 8/24/26 8:43am

Capacity will rise by a record 45GW this year, according to SP Global Energy.

[Category: Science, clean energy, solar, syndication, wind power]

— Volcanoes that made history

 

at 8/23/26 5:02am

Enormous eruptions altered Earth’s climate and societies all over the globe.

[Category: Science, super volcanoes, syndication, volcanoes]

— Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses

 

at 8/22/26 5:22am

Hibernation cuts down on synapses, but mice seem to retain memories anyway.

[Category: Science, Biology, hibernation, memory, neurobiology, synapses]

— Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US

 

at 8/22/26 5:08am

Lands free of roads are under threat from the Trump administration’s proposed rollback.

[Category: Policy, Science, preservation, roadless rule, syndication, trump administration]

— Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging

 

at 8/21/26 2:26pm

Thunderstorms make seismic waves that can be used to find sub-surface features.

[Category: Science, atmospheric science, Earth sciences, seismology, thunder, thunderquake]

— SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste

 

at 8/20/26 7:59am

The yeetcycling math resembles asteroid mining in reverse.

[Category: Science, Space, ai data center, e-waste, recycling, spacex]

— Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way's central black hole

 

at 8/19/26 9:56am

Star, moving at 8% the speed of light, may let us measure the black hole's rotation.

[Category: Science, astronomy, astrophysics, relativity, Sgr A*, supermassive black hole]

— Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea

 

at 8/18/26 1:01pm

"A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle."

[Category: Science, Space, australia, Christmas Island, launch, spacex, starship, starship flight 13]

— X-rays add new twist to narwhal's spiral tusk

 

at 8/18/26 9:00am

New study finds that the tusks have not one but two spirals, twisting in opposite directions.

[Category: Science, Biology, marine biology, narwhals, physiology, tomography, whales, x-ray diffraction]

— As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers

 

at 8/18/26 5:07am

Research shows heat amplifies the dangers of pesticides.

[Category: Health, Science, agriculture, climate change, farmworkers, pesticides, syndication]

— Theban tomb reveals how Egyptian burial trends evolved in time

 

at 8/17/26 10:00pm

Practices shifted from individuals buried in coffins to reusing sites for later mummy interments.

[Category: Science, ancient egypt, Archaeology, archaeothantology, egyptian tombs, thanatology, Thebes]

— The Moon's shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it

 

at 8/17/26 2:23pm

Here's what it was like watching a total solar eclipse 90 minutes north of Madrid.

[Category: Science, Space, moon, solar eclipse, spain, Sun, travel]

— Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history

 

at 8/17/26 7:41am

"It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare," said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry.

[Category: Science, Archaeology, biological archaeology, forensic archaeology, medieval Europe, medieval warfare, middle ages, paleopathology, science, skeletons, trebuchet]

— Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution

 

at 8/16/26 4:00am

Regulations reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions, but wildfire smoke is erasing gains.

[Category: Science, climate change, syndication, wildfires]

— So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year

 

at 8/15/26 5:09am

Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much.

[Category: Science, power plants, solar power, syndication]

— We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked

 

at 8/13/26 7:48am

Let's shield the astronauts instead of the spacecraft.

[Category: Science, Space, crewed spaceflight, orion, radiation, Space exploration, Val Allen Belt]

— Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.

 

at 8/12/26 3:13pm

“It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.”

[Category: Science, glueballs, particle physics, Physics, QCD, the standard model]

As of 8/26/26 11:45am. Last new 8/26/26 9:55am.