…and not only that, but painkilling medicine, too. Newsweek reveals that the psychedelic rocket fuels of 1960s culture are proving to be unique weapons against the otherwise untreatable agony of cluster headaches:
Bob Wold, the president of Cluster Busters, has a story like many of the group’s members. His headaches went misdiagnosed for four years (he even had a few [...]
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The circle of life, seen as a straight line. With a bird of prey at the top.
There’s something totemic about it, I think… King Bird looking over his food subjects.
New Scientist challenges a team of professional electronic snoops, who prove that strangers can learn more than you think from your phone:
I’ve just walked into a windowless room on an industrial estate in Tamworth, UK, where three cellphone analysts in blue shirts sit at their terminals, scrutinising the contents of my phone and smirking. “If it’s any consolation, we [...]
A professor at Australia’s Curtin Institute of Technology, Dr Morry Silberstein, may have figured out what makes acupuncture work:
His research, to be published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology later this year, suggests that the insertion of an acupuncture needle into the skin disrupts the branching point of nerves called C fibres, which transmit low-grade sensory information over very [...]
New Scientist goes tropical, revealing what a fusion reactor has in common with a pina colada:
The coconuts will be used to generate 10,000 cubic metres of nothing – the vacuum essential to ITER’s operation. Some of this vacuum, in the central chamber, separates the plasma from the surrounding solid walls and allows fusion to proceed unhindered by air [...]
This is why we do what we do: Letter to a ^top scientist at Woomera.
This is how the space race was won, you know. Millions of children who had the rocket researchers’ addresses.
This sounds awfully New Agey for Yale, but apparently, physicists there have discovered that metal circles have a tiny amount of persistent energy flowing through them eternally:
The counterintuitive current is the result of a quantum mechanical effect that influences how electrons travel through metals, and arises from the same kind of motion that allows the electrons inside an [...]
EurekAlert tells me these dudes in Australia are breeding their fortunes after finding a germ that, in effect, lays golden eggs:
“A number of years ago we discovered that the metal-resistant bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans occurred on gold grains from two sites in Australia. The sites are 3500 km apart, in southern New South Wales and northern Queensland, so when [...]
The venerable Lockergnome recently looked at memory technology – specifically, a nasal spray that boosts your ability to learn:
In a research report featured as the cover story of the October 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal, these scientists show that a molecule from the body’s immune system
(interleukin-6) when administered through the nose helps the brain retain [...]
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