PopSci reports on the PLOS One study on what happens when two invasive exotic species combine forces:
… Read the rest “A new hybrid super-termite… made in Florida.”The two termite species, which originated in separate areas of Asia, spread across
Science Daily peeks into the weird world of Exploding Head Syndrome, a surprisingly common condition in which young people are suddenly awoken by an ear-splitting boom:
… Read the rest “Has your head ever exploded? (Or *sounded* like it?)”Brian Sharpless,
An illustration from New and rare inventions of water-works; shewing the easiest ways to raise water higher than the spring. By which invention, the perpetual motion … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate XII. An engine of great service to bore elms or other trees to make pipes to conveigh water, and for other uses, 1701”
Nature analyzes the new World Health Organization (WHO) determination that Roundup weedkiller causes cancer:
… Read the rest “So, one of the most common household chemicals is killing you. Surprise!”The cancer-research arm of the World Health Organization last week announced
Science Alert reports on a new train in China – not a design, an actual vehicle – that runs on hydrogen and leaves water for exhaust:
… Read the rest “Here’s a hydrogen-fueled train.”Manufactured by the Sifang Company, which
SONG: “The Waves Around the Women.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Scientists have discovered nature’s newest strongest material“, Washington Post, 18… Read the rest “SONG: The Waves Around the Women”
This is happening now. This summer.
A little flying robot is going to Pluto, the planet that wasn’t a planet, then it sort of was again.
From the NASA New Horizons page… Read the rest “Science Art: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passes Pluto and Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, in July 2015, by NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben.”
Science Daily reports on UC Berkeley research into a chemical that makes you a nicer person:
… Read the rest “Compassion pills.”A new study by UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco researchers finds that giving a drug that changes
A bit of a jawbone (and a bit of computer modeling) has given us a long-awaited glimpse of our new oldest ancestor:
… Read the rest “A new dawn of humankind”On 29 January 2013, scientists combing a stretch of northeastern Ethiopia’s
Science Daily plunges into the fun, fun research into how toxoplasmosis pulls your strings:
… Read the rest “That brain-controlling cat parasite? We’ve figured out how it works….”The parasite is Toxoplasma gondii, which has infected an estimated one in four Americans and
BBC looks into our brains, watching scans that show how one memory can literally replace a different, but similar one:
… Read the rest “A new memory will replace a similar memory: the anatomy of forgetting”“People are used to thinking of forgetting as something passive,”
Sci-News.com showcases the gene that gave us (and our Neanderthal and Denisovan cousins) big brains:
… Read the rest “The Big-Brain Gene. So here’s where the trouble started….”A gene that is responsible for brain size in modern Homo sapiens and their ancient relatives,
Popular Mechanics takes the 3D printer to the next level – synthesizing not new shapes, but new chemicals from scratch:
… Read the rest “3D printing molecules to order.”In a new study published in the journal Science today, [University
Scientific American electrifies us with news of a cluster of satellites investigating the destructive power of the northern lights:
… Read the rest “Magnetic mystery satellites launching tonight”The Magnetsopheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, consists
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