This Saturday is your last chance to see a double blue moon until 2037.
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The colors of stars
Photographer Amanda Cross, of Lancashire, UK, wrote:
I wanted to compare the colors of different stars next to each other. These are stacks of Rigel, Betelgeuse and Sirius. I took individual images 60 seconds apart with iso 16000 and speed 1/50, stacked them with starstax and presented them together to show the different colors of the stars. I took the images deliberately out of focus to show the colors. The color variations are from the Earth’s atmosphere which splits the light from the star and the camera picks up the colors.
An Experimental Superbug Killer Is a Tiny Step Closer to Saving Us From the Antibiotic Apocalypse
A class of antibiotics heralded as an essential future weapon against drug-resistant superbugs passed an important test. There’s now evidence that they can be used to treat serious infections in live animals (in vivo) without being toxic.
Researchers created simplified, synthetic versions of teixobactin, a protein produced by certain dirt-loving bacteria that was first discovered in 2015. They tested the teixobactin in lab mice whose eyes were infected with one of several germs, including antibiotic-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus. The most successful of these analogues was found to leave animal cells alone while still wiping out more than 99 percent of the bacteria in the infected eye.
The findings were published in January in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.
Chinese Scientists Clone Monkeys
This is huge: Chinese scientists have successfully cloned monkeys (via NowThis Future)
Facebook logs SMS texts and calls, users find as they delete accounts
Leaving the social network after Cambridge Analytica scandal, users discover extent of data held.
Are digital drugs the future of medication?
A drug with the potential to revolutionise medication has been approved in the US.
Cracks In Earth’s Magnetic Field Let In These Fantastic Aurora Views
Folks in the planet’s higher latitudes have been treated to some https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2017/07/16/the-aurora-…right-now/” target=”_self”>fantastic nighttime aurora borealis light shows in the past few days thanks to cracks that open up in Earth’s magnetosphere around the time of the fall and spring (or autumnal and vernal, to be a bit more formal about it) equinoxes.