MedXpress details the chromosome damage that seems to be caused by economic inequality; in other words, the more educated you are, the more protected your baby is against chromosome damage… Read the rest “The less educated the mother, the shorter the newborn’s telomeres.”
Sport Illustrated has some great science news today, reporting on the British astronaut who’s running the London Marathon in orbit (on a treadmill):
… Read the rest “Running a marathon on the International Space Station.”[Tim] Peake will be a part of
The Space Launch System (SLS) is the rocket that NASA plans to send to asteroids and, eventually, to Mars. It’s a big rocket. The most powerful ever built.
Well, once… Read the rest “Science Art: Space Launch System Takes Flight”
Scientific American recently published a gift guide with no stuff it – just research showing how to be a better gift-giver:
… Read the rest “Be a better gift-giver – with psychological research.”A 2009 study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Not that New Scientist wants you to worry about what your exercise routine could be doing to your memory. Just that researchers have found ultra-marathoners’ brains are measurably… Read the rest “Long-distance runners’ brains shrink.”
National Geographic marvels at a huge number of very large footprints on the Scottish coast:
… Read the rest “Dinosaurs walked in Scotland”The footprints form the largest dinosaur site ever found in Scotland. They also show that sauropods,
Science Daily has more on the threat climate change poses to our oxygen supply:
… Read the rest “Don’t worry about global warming flooding! Worry about suffocation.”A study led by Sergei Petrovskii, Professor in Applied Mathematics from the University of Leicester’s
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