Edna

In the genetic age,…

Fuji catchment. Top left: Fuji’s location on the trench–trench–trench triple junction between the Amur, Okhotsk, and Philippine Sea plates in central Japan. Top right: map of Fuji catchment, its four sub-basins (with the southwestern sub-basin highlighted in yellow), the general groundwater flow directions of the southwestern and southeastern sub-basins, the major fault zones, the currently active tectonic faults, the sampled sites and all data points…

Image via Marvel Studios/Disney Plus Here we go, Avengers enthusiasts, it’s Marvel news roundup time. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law continued with its fifth episode this Thursday, and while it might have been the most joint-shorted installment we’ve had so far, it still managed to pack in a lot that demanded to be unpacked by fans. For one, the series dared to pilfer from another of Disney’s biggest brands, the folks over at Pixar, while paving the way for one hell of a team-up when the series returns next week.…

This study was the first comprehensive eDNA biodiversity survey conducted on Mount Everest.From only 20 liters of water gathered in one of the toughest settings on Earth, researchers find evidence of 187 taxonomic orders.A team of scientists headed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Appalachian State University employed environmental <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>DNA</div><div…

Biologists are working with engineers to develop new tools to accelerate the development of medicines derived from marine animals, focusing on ocean-going robots with onboard DNA-sequencing gear. They foresee fleets of autonomous submersible robots trolling the ocean like electronic bloodhounds to sniff out snippets of the animals’ DNA in seawater—and then gathering and analyzing this so-called environmental DNA, or eDNA. More than a dozen drugs have been developed from compounds made naturally by sponges, corals and…

If you’ve ever wondered how the Walt Disney Corporation is mining your data for targeted advertisements across platforms, today’s your lucky day. Baymax of Big Hero 6 and Edna Mode from The Incredibles are here to explain it all.In leaked videos first obtained and reported on by Vice, Disney characters have been extracted from their original contexts and inserted into the company’s ad sales training and marketing materials. There, in a nightmare scenario, the facsimiles of your beloved childhood memories are re-animated…