Atkins Diet Eases Epilepsy
Laboratory Equipment discusses research that’s found a low-carb, high-fat diet reduces seizures in hard-to-treat 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 […]
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: Previous work, including by […]
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 […]
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, as used in […]
Working nights? Lay off the spinach and liver.
Science Daily has more dietary recommendations for resetting your body’s clock: Disrupted circadian clocks, researchers believe, are the reason that shift workers experience higher incidents […]
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 […]
We can un-remember for you, wholesale. (With light.)
Science Daily discusses UC Davis researchers who are using light to edit out specific memories: Optogenetics, pioneered by Karl Diesseroth at Stanford University, is a […]
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 […]
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: Originally […]
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: 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 […]
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
Science Art: Phramgocone of Belemnitella, In Flint, 1851
Click to embiggen slightly A “phragmocone” is a fancy word for a shell of a nautilus or ammonoid, and “Belemnitella” is a genus of belemnite, […]
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 […]