Daily Science Haiku - Sexist Lab Mice

Lab mice get nervous
around male researchers, so
can we trust that data?

Lab Mice Become Stressed and Timid Around Men - But Not Women

Daily Science Haiku - Thin Film Batteries

Flexible power?
Nanoporous thin film makes
bending battery.

Flexible battery, no lithium required

Daily Science Haiku - Bicyclist Hand Gestures Recognized by Autonomous Cars

Self-driving cars can
understand your waving hands,
wary bicyclists.

Google's self-driving cars can now understand cyclists' hand gestures

Daily Science Haiku for Sunday, April 27, 2014 - 3D-Printed Cartilage

Deep in my left hip,
cartilage wears away. Can I
print myself some more?

Cartilage, made to order: Living human cartilage grown on a laboratory chip

Daily Science Haiku - Ice Cold Star

So close, yet so far.
Too small to ignite, brown dwarf
is an ice-cold star.

Astronomer Finds a Brown Dwarf Literally as Cold as Ice... And It's Right Next Door

Daily Science Haiku - Self-Organizing Criticality

Shifting piles of sand
make models of conscious thought,
neural avalanche.

A Fundamental Theory to Model the Mind

Daily Science Haiku - Frog Antibiotics

Put a frog in milk.
Find new antibiotics
to fight resistance.

How to Keep Milk from Spoiling Without Refrigeration

Daily Science Haiku - Depression

A single protein -
REDD1 - may block brain healing,
causing depression.

Protein that shrinks depressed brains identified

Daily Science Haiku - Blitzar

Heavy. So heavy.
Must resist becoming a
black hole by spinning!

Unexplained Intergalatic Radio Bursts Confirmed by Arecibo

Daily Science Haiku - Misunderstood Myelin

For a friend recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Myelin sheathes nerves,
but recent evolution shows
less of it, not more.

Finding turns neuroanatomy on its head: Researchers present new view of myelin

Daily Science Haiku - We Can Now Clone Humans

You can clone yourself
using embryos or stem cells.
How many? How soon?

We now have the potential to clone a human adult (using donor embryos)
Researchers Clone Stem Cells from Human Adults (not using embryos)

Daily Science Haiku - The Gynosome

The gynosome is
not a penis, nor even
a stylized cigar.

Your Penis is Getting in the Way of My Science

Daily Science Haiku - Artificial Blood

Slightly artificial
blood made from fibroblasts may
someday flow in you.

Artificial Blood is Patient-Ready

Daily Science Haiku - Saturn's New Moon

We think moons are old,
yet, by accretion, Saturn's
rings birth a new moon.

Saturn May Have Just Spawned a New Moon

Daily Science Haiku - Hepatitis C: Cured

Hepatitis C,
once a death sentence, now cured,
but at a steep price.

Hepatitis C: New Drug Treatment is a "Breakthrough"

Daily Science Haiku - Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight!

Alas! Cloud cover
may obscure lunar eclipse
starting 2am.

How to Watch This Week's Total Lunar Eclipse

Daily Science Haiku - Tetraquark

Exotic particle
Tetraquark's balanced colors,
give rise to quark stars.

Scientists detect a particle that could be a new form of matter

Daily Science Haiku - Portable Printer

Pocket-sized printer
scoots Roomba-like across sheets
of paper, any size.

This robot printer runs around the page laying down ink

Daily Science Haiku - Regenerating Organs

In transgenic mice,
a single protein triggers
regrowth of organs.

First Successful Organ Regeneration in a Living Animal

Daily Science Haiku - Asteroid Impact Scars

Earth bears the scars of
a bigger impact than the
dinosaur killer.

Asteroid that Dwarfed Dinosaur Killer Punched Earth Three Billion Years Ago

Daily Science Haiku - Autism Linked with Prenatal Lipid Levels

Prostaglandin starts
fevers, induces labor, and
triggers autism genes.

Lipid levels during prenatal brain development impact autism, study shows

For Rob

Daily Science Haiku - Origami Robots

DNA robots
fold up to hold molecules,
uncurl to release.

DNA nanobots deliver drugs in living cockroaches

Daily Science Haiku - Cosmic Lightning

Would lightning occur
without cosmic rays forming
ions in our air?

Shocking Study from Largest Cosmic Ray Physics Experiment in the Northern Hemisphere

Daily Science Haiku - Mars Opposition April 8th

Mars opposition -
Earth between Mars and the Sun -
occurs April 8th.

Your Guide to Witnessing the Biggest, Brightest Mars in Six Years

Daily Science Haiku - How to Make Embryos

God-like, we can make
new life from stem cells: organs, 
even embryos.

Stem Cell Researchers Just Figured Out How to Create New Embryos

Daily Science Haiku - Water on Enceladus

Enceladus hides
an ocean under its crust.
Could it harbor life?

Cassini spacecraft finds sign of subsurface sea on Saturn's moon Enceladus

Daily Science Haiku - Microbial Armageddon

Microbes may have caused
the Permian extinction,
death by greenhouse gas.

Small microbes almost killed all life on earth

Daily Science Haiku - Reboots for Transplant Patients

Need organ transplant?
Reboot your immune system
to curb rejection.

Reboot the immune system to avoid transplant rejection

Daily Science Haiku - Surgical Robots

Fantastic voyage?
Astronauts may soon rely
on robot surgeon.

Mini robot space surgeon to climb inside astronauts