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grant balfour

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Making embryos from human skin

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2025/10/22

BBC recently reported on scientists taking DNA from human skin cells and fertilizing it with sperm to create a non-egg embryo – or at least an embryo with someone else’s DNA… Read the rest “Making embryos from human skin” The post Making embryos from human skin first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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AI detects melanoma with 99% accuracy.

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2025/10/21

Northeastern Global News reports on a positive use for artificial intelligence, with a system that outperforms other techniques by helping doctors spot potentially deadly skin cancers… Read the rest “AI detects melanoma with 99% accuracy.” The post AI detects melanoma with 99% accuracy. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Ribbon schematic of the 3D structure of...

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2025/10/20

Jane Richardson drew this by hand and then colored it in back in 1981. It’s a protein molecule, or a diagram of how things move inside a protein molecule. Here’s the description… Read the rest “Science Art: Ribbon schematic of the 3D structure of the protein triose phosphate isomerase” The post Science Art: Ribbon schematic of the 3D structure of the protein triose phosphate isomerase first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Yellow and blue, old and new, 2025

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2025/10/13

This is a photo from 10 days ago of stars millions of light-years away (so the picture is of things long, long before October 3). The official credit is: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko,… Read the rest “Science Art: Yellow and blue, old and new, 2025” The post Science Art: Yellow and blue, old and new, 2025 first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Skeleton sculpting of Stone-Age China

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2025/10/13

PhysOrg reports on archaeologists studying “bone modification,” a custom that seems to have been practiced among the first city-dwellers in southern China, who set up a … Read the rest “Skeleton sculpting of Stone-Age China” The post Skeleton sculpting of Stone-Age China first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Prehistoric Patagonian predator ate giant crocodiles

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2025/10/03

Reuters reports on a discover discovered in southern Argentina that apparently outdid T. rex and carnosaurus in its ferocity. A fossil of the colossal Cretaceous hunter was found with … Read the rest “Prehistoric Patagonian predator ate giant crocodiles”The post Prehistoric Patagonian predator ate giant crocodiles first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Musicians don’t feel pain like other people.

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2025/10/03

Is it worse? No, according to Science Alert. They’re sharing research that shows musical training actually increases tolerance for pain: Research has also found that persistent … Read the rest “Musicians don’t feel pain like other people.” The post Musicians don’t feel pain like other people. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: One Osprey Mouth at a Time II, by Phil’s...

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2025/09/29

Here’s a photo from the Encyclopedia of Life collection on Flickr, showing a family of the old bone-breakers, the fish-hawks, ospreys. They are a noble predator, moreso than some… Read the rest “Science Art: One Osprey Mouth at a Time II, by Phil’s 1stPix” The post Science Art: One Osprey Mouth at a Time II, by Phil’s 1stPix first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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SONG: Dirt Poor

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2025/09/25

SONG: “Dirt Poor”. (OGG version here.)ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Dirty emotions: Microbes in soil may affect hormones tied to love, mental health and social… Read the rest “SONG: Dirt Poor” The post SONG: Dirt Poor first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: We Live With the Seminoles opener, 1942

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2025/09/21

This is the first page of an article from Natural History Magazine‘s April 1942 edition, which I found on archive.org. Today, the Seminole Tribe owns the Hard Rock Cafe brand, has … Read the rest “Science Art: We Live With the Seminoles opener, 1942” The post Science Art: We Live With the Seminoles opener, 1942 first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Computers are beating humans at predicting future...

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2025/09/21

Time (not a science magazine, but…) has a story on the Metaculus forecasting cup (not a scientific experiment, but…), which offers a $5,000 prize to members who successfully… Read the rest “Computers are beating humans at predicting future outcomes.” The post Computers are beating humans at predicting future outcomes. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin,...

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2025/09/15

These are the seven elements of a psyche, a person’s sense of self, as mapped out by Charles Baudouin, a French contemporary of Freud, Jung, and Adler. According to his Wikipedia article… Read the rest “Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin, by CBCB”The post Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin, by CBCB first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Loss of smell may be an earlier sign of Alzheimer’s.

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2025/09/11

ScienceAlert reports on a brain-scan study that finds the loss of smell — apparently triggered by a misfiring immune response in the brain — may give patients an earlier warning… Read the rest “Loss of smell may be an earlier sign of Alzheimer’s.” The post Loss of smell may be an earlier sign of Alzheimer’s. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Psychedelics can open the mind’s eye, kind of literally.

The Guild of Scientific Troubadours ·

2025/09/10

IFL Science has some new findings about people with aphantasia — that is, people who don’t have an inner movie-screen playing thoughts as images. There are more of them than… Read the rest “Psychedelics can open the mind’s eye, kind of literally.” The post Psychedelics can open the mind’s eye, kind of literally. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Sand battery takes over heating duties for Finnish city.

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2025/09/09

News Atlas reports on an industrial-scale sand battery that is replacing a woodchip-fired power plant in Pornainen, Finland, with clean heat and energy: It’s set to reduce carbon … Read the rest “Sand battery takes over heating duties for Finnish city.” The post Sand battery takes over heating duties for Finnish city. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Ghost sharks have teeth on their foreheads because...

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2025/09/08

PhysOrg redefines what “attractive” is for the deep-sea set, thanks to a study that has found male ghost sharks grow a retractable, tooth-covered rod out of their foreheads… Read the rest “Ghost sharks have teeth on their foreheads because it’s sexy.” The post Ghost sharks have teeth on their foreheads because it’s sexy. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Bisphenalenyl Biradical Ball, by Jynto,...

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2025/09/08

I found this illustration in the Wikimedia Commons “Category: Radicals” collection – it stood out from the other diagrams and models. Maybe because it looks a little… Read the rest “Science Art: Bisphenalenyl Biradical Ball, by Jynto, 2011” The post Science Art: Bisphenalenyl Biradical Ball, by Jynto, 2011 first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Giant black-hole binaries spinning in star graveyard

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2025/09/05

Space brings us new analyses of stellar graveyards, which astronomers study to discover how stars develop and, eventually, die – turning into dense neutron stars or denser black… Read the rest “Giant black-hole binaries spinning in star graveyard” The post Giant black-hole binaries spinning in star graveyard first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Dirty love: Soil steering our emotions

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2025/09/05

PhysOrg reports on Flinders University researchers who have found that soil microbes can affect our gut biota, which in turn can influence our emotional lives, including our feelings … Read the rest “Dirty love: Soil steering our emotions” The post Dirty love: Soil steering our emotions first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are...

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2025/08/31

A General Electrodynamics Corporation ad for a television camera vidicon, a video camera tube – a thing that works like an old-fashioned television screen, scanning a ray of electrons… Read the rest “Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You…, 1966”The post Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You…, 1966 first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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