Today was Nikola Tesla’s birthday – keen interest in nature

Portrait of Serbian-American inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943), aged 34, circa 1890.

Lifestyle By Christine Rousselle, Fox News July 10, 2023 | 6.45pm Inventor Nikola Tesla was born on this day in history, July 10, 1856, in what is now Croatia. Tesla’s father was a priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church, notes the Encyclopædia Britannica. His mother, though ignorant, was very intelligent. Young Tesla showed a keen … Read more

The 52-year-old Richfield Nature Center adjusts to demand for more environmental education

A man holds a white waste bin on a walkway

Just beyond Minneapolis is a natural oasis well known to its more than 100,000 visitors each year. But the decennial Wood Lake Nature Center is now at a major inflection point, one that managers say is a long time coming. Wood Lake Nature Center director Paul Smithson said when it was built in 1971, the … Read more

Webb spots most distant active supermassive black hole | Digital Trends

In addition to observing specific objects such as galaxies and distant planets here in our solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope is also used to perform large-scale surveys of parts of the sky. These surveys look at large swathes of the sky to identify important targets such as very distant and very ancient galaxies, … Read more

Nature is really good medicine. Science can explain why.

Doctors don’t usually prescribe spending time in nature to their patients, but maybe they should. A solid body of research shows that being in green spaces such as parks, woodlands, forests, mountains, and the like is beneficial to people’s physical and mental well-being. Less well known are the benefits of frequenting oceans, lakes and rivers. … Read more

CAR-T Cell Study Enabled by 10x Genomics Single Cell Technology Published in Nature Medicine | Biospace

10x Genomics Logo (PRNewsfoto/10x Genomics, Inc.)

Data uncovers new gene signature to help understand persistence in CAR-T cells PLEASANTON, Calif., July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — 10x Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TXG), a leader in single-cell and space biology, today announced that its single-cell genomic technologies are being used in a study published in the journal Medicine of Nature on new genetic signatures … Read more