Don’t turn around. He’s standing right behind you.
Nature takes a second look at the neurology of feeling a presence right next to you: Some people with relatively rare types of brain injury […]
Month: November 2014
Red Planet dreams: what it takes to sign up for a one-way mission….
Medium takes a long look at the Mars One company, which has assembled 200,000 volunteers for a Mars mission that doesn’t yet exist: Despite not […]
No, *this* is your brain on drugs. All interconnected….
IFL Science takes another look (courtesy of ISI Foundation researchers) at magic mushroom trips, and finds some surprises in what exactly psilocybin mushrooms do to […]
Science Art: Hydrarchos Sillimanni, from The great sea-serpent, by A. C. Oudemans, 1892.
Click to embiggen vastly Quoting here from Oudemans’ book: In 1845 Dr. Albert C. Koch, “exhibited a large skeleton of a fossil animal, under the […]
Penicillin-resistant germ found – from more than a decade before penicillin was discovered.
New Scientist has more on WWI germ that can survive all kinds of modern medicines: Ernest Cable was a British soldier who died in 1915 […]
“Amaze balls: Testicles site of most diverse proteins”
Yes, New Scientist comes up with another headline you just can’t beat: Congratulations testicles, you make more unique proteins than any other tissue in the […]
Vaccine-resistant polio discovered. Yeah, almost a nightmare scenario.
Science Daily reports on a bug that’ll be keeping some public health officials up nights: The global initiative to eradicate poliomyelitis through routine vaccination has […]
Screen light too bright, can’t get to sleep at night (now, eyes won’t focus right).
I don’t normally go to Business Insider for science news, but they’ve actually got a pretty good rundown of recent research into the problems with […]
Little space package brings stuff home from the ISS, no astronauts required.
SpaceNews.com has more on the “golf-club bag” we’re devising for space station return deliveries: The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the […]
Science Art: Submarine Reactor, by Webber, 2007.
How the submarine goes. Found on Wikimedia Commons.