If everyone is stressed out, Scientific American seems to be saying, then women will have a mental advantage. That’s because stressed men are worse at learning:
… Read the rest “The worst learners are stressed-out men.”Male and female participants
A 17th-century guide to leg surgery. Unfortunately, my Latin’s not what it could be, so I can’t tell exactly what Dr. Joannis Sculteti is recommending we do here. I can tell,… Read the rest “Science Art: Tabula XXIII: De humeri fracti compositioni & luxationem cubiti, humeri, ac femoris restitutioni, from Armamentum chirurgicum, by D. Joannis Sculteti, 1656”
That’s the argument Laboratory Equipment describes some mathematical taxonomists (there’s a discipline for you) are making – claiming that some kinds of plankton… Read the rest “Some critters are so small, they can’t make a species.”
Science Daily has more on the strange, previously unknown sensory organ in insects:
… Read the rest “Mosquitos *taste* heat.”Notice how mosquitoes always seem to bite where there is the most blood? That is because those areas are
Medical Xpress reports on the colorful work of Ohio State U neuroscientists who have studied the effects of nightlights on depression:
… Read the rest “Red light beats blue mood.”In a study involving hamsters, researchers found
Nature has the details on what it takes to come back from a decapitation:
… Read the rest “(Can’t beat this headline) “How to regrow your head.””Knocking out a single gene can switch on a worm’s ability to regenerate parts of its body, even enabling it to
AP (via Yahoo!) has the first reactions to meat grown in a petri dish rather than on a farm:
… Read the rest “Lab-grown meat: first taste “feels like a conventional hamburger””Two volunteers who participated in the first public frying of hamburger grown in a lab said Monday
People seem to like caissons (pressurized chambers used to build foundations underwater), or so my search referrals tell me.
Well, here’s what working in a caisson can do to you –… Read the rest “Science Art: Sketch of a Decompression Chamber in Use from Caisson Sickness, and the Physiology of Work in Compressed Air, by Leonard Hill, M.B., 1912.”
BBC says that’s what’s going on in the Netherlands. The baboons were terrified, but no one knows why;
… Read the rest “Zookeepers baffled by spooked baboons.”The behaviour started on Monday evening, and only now are the 112 baboons
Doctor Dolittle… well, not exactly. But The Telegraph reads dogs’ faces to see if they’re happy to see you:
… Read the rest “Watch your dog’s left eyebrow. That’s how they say they’re glad to see you.”Animal behaviour experts have found the animals’ emotions
BBC reports on the struggle to develop an early blood test for Alzheimer’s:
… Read the rest “A blood test for Alzheimer’s disease – almost here.”A technique published in the journal Genome Biology showed differences in the tiny fragments of genetic
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