The less educated the mother, the shorter the newborn’s telomeres.
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 […]
Month: December 2015
Running a marathon on the International Space Station.
Sport Illustrated has some great science news today, reporting on the British astronaut who’s running the London Marathon in orbit (on a treadmill): [Tim] Peake […]
Science Art: Space Launch System Takes Flight
Click to embiggen The Space Launch System (SLS) is the rocket that NASA plans to send to asteroids and, eventually, to Mars. It’s a big […]
Be a better gift-giver – with psychological research.
Scientific American recently published a gift guide with no stuff it – just research showing how to be a better gift-giver: A 2009 study in […]
Long-distance runners’ brains shrink.
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’ […]
Dinosaurs walked in Scotland
National Geographic marvels at a huge number of very large footprints on the Scottish coast: The footprints form the largest dinosaur site ever found in […]
Don’t worry about global warming flooding! Worry about suffocation.
Science Daily has more on the threat climate change poses to our oxygen supply: A study led by Sergei Petrovskii, Professor in Applied Mathematics from […]