Atkins Diet Eases Epilepsy
Laboratory Equipment discusses research that’s found a low-carb, high-fat diet reduces seizures in hard-to-treat epilepsy:
… Read the rest “Atkins Diet Eases Epilepsy”“We need new treatments for the 35 percent of people
Month: October 2014
Self-programming computers (little fake brains) fuel new start-up.
You know it’s real when there’s money involved. Well, real-ish. New Scientist has more on the Google acquisition of DeepMind Technologies and their Neural Turing Machine… Read the rest “Self-programming computers (little fake brains) fuel new start-up.”
Hot cocoa helps you remember.
Science Daily has some cheerful news from Columbia University Medical Center neuroscience researchers, who’ve found that cocoa fights age-related memory decline:
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Science Art: STS 110 Insignia, NASA
This was the insignia of the astronauts who built the ISS. Or a big part of it, anyway.
STS 110 was the name of the mission, the 110th flight of the Space Shuttle, or Space Transportation System.… Read the rest “Science Art: STS 110 Insignia, NASA”
SONG: “Forget” by grant.
SONG: “Forget.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Manipulating memory with light: Scientists erase specific memories in mice“, Science Daily, 9 October 2014,… Read the rest “SONG: “Forget” by grant.”
Working nights? Lay off the spinach and liver.
Science Daily has more dietary recommendations for resetting your body’s clock:
… Read the rest “Working nights? Lay off the spinach and liver.”Disrupted circadian clocks, researchers believe, are the reason that shift workers experience
Ketamine – “special K” – can break treatment-resistant depression.
Nature has more on how the veterinary tranquilizer-slash-rave drug can reverse “anhedonia” (the inability to feel happy) for 14 days – long enough to bust sufferers… Read the rest “Ketamine – “special K” – can break treatment-resistant depression.”
We can un-remember for you, wholesale. (With light.)
Science Daily discusses UC Davis researchers who are using light to edit out specific memories:
… Read the rest “We can un-remember for you, wholesale. (With light.)”Optogenetics, pioneered by Karl Diesseroth at Stanford University, is a new technique
Science Art: Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833
This is a celestial event recorded beautifully in E. Weiß’s Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt, the “Picture-Atlas of the Star-World”. I’m not sure, but I think that’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833 ”
Little swimming bowling balls, ever-faithful guardians….
Laboratory Equipment sings the praises of the latest soldiers keeping our harbors safe from attack – a
secret army of (cheap) robot bowling balls:
… Read the rest “Little swimming bowling balls, ever-faithful guardians….”Originally designed to look for
Consciousness after death – as long as you’re not on sedatives.
Science Daily reveals some interesting (and counter-intuitive) findings following the world’s largest medical study of human consciousness at time of death:
… Read the rest “Consciousness after death – as long as you’re not on sedatives.”The results of a
When icebergs floated off Key West…
Nature paints a more vivid picture of climate change – and the related changes in ocean currents – by retracing the paths of prehistoric icebergs in the years when the oceans… Read the rest “When icebergs floated off Key West…”
Secret U.S. shuttle set to land tomorrow, after two years in space.
Sound like conspiracy theory, doesn’t it? But Space.com is reporting on the easily-forgotten OTHER space shuttle program – the Air Force’s top-secret unmanned shuttle,… Read the rest “Secret U.S. shuttle set to land tomorrow, after two years in space.”
Science Art: Phramgocone of Belemnitella, In Flint, 1851
A “phragmocone” is a fancy word for a shell of a nautilus or ammonoid, and “Belemnitella” is a genus of belemnite, which is to say, a … Read the rest “Science Art: Phramgocone of Belemnitella, In Flint, 1851”
Fish researchers: “Our mirrors have become USELESS!”
Nature breaks the news to behaviorists – and this is more important than it might seem – that fish don’t really think mirrors are uninvited strangers:
… Read the rest “Fish researchers: “Our mirrors have become USELESS!””“There’s