Weird stuff: Better for your brain and your waistline.
Scientific American reveals that the stuff you really weren’t expecting – the “unusual, the jarring, the culturally shocking” – can improve your cognitive ability and […]
Month: October 2015
Step aside HIV. Tuberculosis is now the deadliest infectious disease.
New Scientist reveals that, worldwide, more people died from TB than from AIDS: This year marks the deadline for the Millennium Development Goal of cutting […]
Depression could be an immune problem.
Medical XPress examines a link between major depression and immune-system cells in the brain called “microglia”: In a groundbreaking theoretical review paper published in the […]
Science Art: A Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze…, 1905.
Click to embiggen The translation of “a Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze von Equisetum hiemale dicht unterhalb der Scheitelzelle nach Naegeli und Leitgeb,” according to Google, […]
The meanest, most-quickly-intensifying hurricane in the Western Hemisphere.
Dr. Jeff Masters at Weather Underground has a lot of superlatives for Hurricane Patricia, the Category 5 storm that leapt up out of nowhere to […]
No song today.
Laryngitis is a heck of thing, especially when combined with an antibiotic allergy. Music to resume shortly.
There’s a new giant tortoise species in the Galapagos.
Science Daily reports that where scientists had thought there was only one kind of giant tortoise, there were actually two.
Cuba & U.S. team up to save sharks.
Nature points out one pleasant side effect of the growing diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba – we’re doing better than ever at protecting […]
Apatosaurus could have cracked its tail like a giant whip.
Scientific American explores a strange anatomical detail for a very large dinosaur indeed – a whip-like tail that could actually have cracked like a whip: […]
Science Art: Gate of Lodore, from the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories.
Behold the West. This is the frontispiece to a scientific report, the Report on the geology of the eastern portion of the Uinta Mountains and […]
Maybe… just maybe… we’re getting as much sleep as we always did.
It sure doesn’t feel like it, but Scientific American has some research to suggest that all these screens and electric lights really aren’t ruining our […]
Self-control eats your memory.
The Guardian reveals how exerting the willpower not to eat that next donut actually lowers your ability to remember things clearly: In the lab, self-control […]
China’s space telescope: Two years of watching from the moon.
New Scientist gives us an update on what the Chang’e 3 lander has been seeing for the last two years: The 15-centimetre telescope is mounted […]
Wrong Science. As if the p-hacking wasn’t bad enough…
Nature tackles the “reproducibility problem” – trying to find out why some WRONG things get published as being RIGHT, but also how exactly scientists get […]
Science Art: Pluto as seen by New Horizons
Click to embiggen A photo of that icy, cold, faraway, beautiful neighbor, just snapped by NASA. Found in the New Horizons Image Gallery.