Issue # 248 _ October 2016

Technoscience

Ambystoma mexicanum

Regenerating salamander

Chrysolaena obovata

Elevated C02 makes for drought-resistant plant

Physics

Solid sphere floats on sound

water

Three times as many viruses in the oceans

Astronomy

Detailed map of the Milky Way

computerized microtomographies

Microtomography virtually unwraps a biblical scroll

phosphoethanolamine

Non-toxic phosphoethanolamine

Physics

Quasiparticle formation

Neuroscience

Diversity in neuronal DNA

Paleontology

Two pre-mammals in southern Brazil