Science News covers the ups and downs of Spravato, a ketamine-related antidepressant nasal spray that works for some folks, sometimes:
… Read the rest “The jury remains out on ketamine-based antidepressants. They work… for *some* people.”Many existing antidepressants target serotonin,
From Harry Winfield Secor’s The How and Why of Radio Apparatus, from the Experimenter Publishing Co., which you can read here.
Electricity was the theme of my Yule… Read the rest “Science Art:Induction Coil Cutaway, 1920”
The holiday spirit (or something) descended on The Washington Post, who have shared (non-paywalled, apparently) a statistical and neurological look at why Christmas music – and… Read the rest “Christmas music and your brain.”
The Atlantic goes deep, deeper than ever in search of the wealth beneath the ocean floor:
… Read the rest “How to mine the bottom of the sea.”Today, many of the largest mineral corporations in the world have launched underwater mining programs.
SONG: “I Spent a Week in the Dark”.
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SOURCE: Science Daily, 8 December 2019, “A week in the dark rewires brain cell networks and changes hearing in adult… Read the rest “SONG: I Spent a Week in the Dark”
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These are not dinosaurs – they’re older than that – but they are in The Dinosaur Book, Edwin H. Colbert’s 1945 guide to prehistoric creatures… Read the rest “Science Art: The evolution of the synapsid reptiles, by John C. Germann,1945”
Not sure if “symptoms” is quite the right word here, but it’s what MIT News is using. Apparently, it’s been noticed for around a decade and half that when autistic… Read the rest “Infections reduce autism symptoms – because an immune-system molecule affects a part of the brain.”
(In all caps because that’s a title, isn’t it?) Science News reports on the work the MAVEN probe is doing mapping the movements of the upper atmosphere of Mars:
… Read the rest “The High Martian Wind”“Looking at how
PsyPost shares research from Evolutionary Psychological Science that finds that dudes, like, check out each other’s pecs all the time (comparatively):
… Read the rest “Eye-tracking study: Men check out other men’s chests more than women do.”“If having a larger upper
A dinosaur in a coat of arms for Dornogovi Province, Mongolia. It’s from Wikimedia Commons’ “Dinosaurs in Heraldry” section. As UNESCO reminds… Read the rest “Science Art: Coat of Arms of Dornogovi Aimag in Mongolia”
Nature looks at a comic book from 44,000 years ago that tells the story of a successful hunt – a story that appears to be humanity’s oldest:
… Read the rest “Reading the oldest story humans told… on a cave wall in Indonesia.”A cave-wall depiction of a pig and buffalo
BBC reports on a brown-and-white relic that reveals what dinosaurs really looked like – the first material from a dinosaur’s body ever discovered:
… Read the rest “Feathered dinosaur tail found preserved in amber.”“This is the first
SONG: “Sleep to Remember, Stay Awake to Forget”.
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SOURCE: Scientific American, 18 November 2019, “Deeper Insights Emerge into How Memories Form,”… Read the rest “SONG: Sleep to Remember, Stay Awake to Forget”
Smithsonian looks at tattoos – the tattoos of Egyptian mummies, obscured by the mummification resins but revealed by infrared light:
… Read the rest “Egyptian mummies’ tattoos revealed: crosses, baboons and hieroglyphics”Archaeologist Anne Austin of the University
NASA, for a while, was looking at different ways an aircraft’s body could be used to generate lift, rather than having wings sort of stuck on the fuselage after the… Read the rest “Science Art: Hybrid Wing Body, NASA, 2013”
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