Science News demonstrates how the prehistoric agricultural revolution was fueled by women with mighty arm muscles:
… Read the rest “Ancient women had strong arms, say bone studies.”In the early stages of farming more than 7,000 years ago, women engaged
Nature dives into some pretty weird sex-based results in pharmacological studies of ketamine:
… Read the rest “Ketamine fights depression in mice – when a *male researcher* administers it.”The findings, presented on 14 November at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting in
Nature reports on a new class of germ-fighting drugs that are light-sensitive, so they become active when the lights go on:
… Read the rest “Antibiotic switches on with the lights.”A drug that can be easily turned on and off could provide targeted
At the end of the 17th century, this was some weird and wild stuff – a fruit that in the Americas, they call “banana” (if I’m reading the Dutch text… Read the rest “Science Art: De XII Afbeelding (Banana) by Maria Sibylla Merian”
Pringle’s dedication is absolutely admirable.
From his description:
… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: Handel’s “As When the Dove,” by Peter Pringle”There is a lot of very fast fingering and some extended baroque trills in this piece which are hard to see because
We’ve had Eyck on here before, but not like this:
Or at least, no original. I’ve got a bass line and a smattering of lyrics, but still haven’t replaced the laptop, so recording has been impossible. So it goes.
There will, however,… Read the rest “No song today.”
The Atlantic has a great piece on the E.T.-hunting radio telescope that China just built (it’s twice the size of Arecibo) with a little input from China’s greatest living science… Read the rest “China’s ready to make first contact with aliens.”
Indiana University psychology researchers have definitely proved, after 10 years of study, that a particular kind of video game, as part of a brief brain-training regimen, can keep age-related… Read the rest ““Brain training” video game beats dementia in trials.”
This is a sidelong look at the king of planets from NASA’s Image of the Day gallery.
The NASA folks say:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Jupiter: A New Point of View, by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran”This striking Jovian vista was created by citizen scientists
Science Daily has more on the Texas and Virginia researchers who looked over 12,112 kids’ experiences growing up and concluded spanking – free of all other factors –… Read the rest “Spanking makes their behavior worse”
New Scientist explains that the recipients, if there are any, could answer in about 25 years – enough time for a radio message to travel the 12 light years to GJ 273b, a habitable planet… Read the rest “We just sent a message to a habitable planet.”
New York Times has the latest high-water mark in our society’s ever-rising tide of irony – an antipsychotic medication that, as paranoid as this sounds, really does tell the… Read the rest “FDA OKs putting tracking devices in schizophrenia pills. (Yes. They really did.)”
“A representation is faithful if it has only one braid in its kernel.”
So, this is doctorate-level mathematics rendered as interpretative dance, and that is not a joke.
Science News shares new research about how Alzheimer’s can happen – and, maybe, how we can prevent it. Those amyloid proteins that build up in the brain and cause all the cognitive… Read the rest “Alzheimer’s protein can travel from the blood up to the brain.”
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