The key to octopuses’ uncanny intelligence is in their genes.
Nature reports that the octopus has, for an invertebrate, a really large genome – including a long sequence of genes that regulates intelligence in “higher” […]
Month: August 2015
The Lost Colony… found?
New York Times reveals what might be the ultimate fate of the Lost Colony of Roanoke: They call the spot Site X. Down a dusty […]
Graphene’s tin cousin
Nature greets a new one-atom-thick material – a super-thin sheet of tin scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University are calling “stanene”: Stanene (from the Latin […]
Science Art: Experience the Gravity of a Super Earth, NASA/JPL Exoplanet Travel Bureau
Click to embiggen Apparently, since last December at least, NASA has been creating vintage-style travel posters for exoplanets – the planets we’ve been discovering around […]
Emotions help you remember information
Science Daily processes a University of Haifa finding about why first impressions are so important – and how *feeling* a thing helps you *know* a […]
Teens and two-year-olds: The ages most vulnerable to trauma.
Quartz opens a window on the two periods of brain development when traumatic events do the most damage: According to Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and […]
Oh, and your picky eater is doomed, too.
OK, I’m overstating things for dramatic effect… but another Science Daily report reveals even moderately picky eaters face health risks: According to the study, published […]
You don’t know how (un)happy your children are.
Science Daily reveals that parents are (as we suspected) getting it all wrong – they think their 10-year-olds are happier – and their 15-year-olds are […]