Science Daily reports on a University of Maryland study that shows that (for mice at least) spending a week in darkness resets certain brain circuits, and in particular boosts the sensitivity… Read the rest “A week in the dark rewires the brain (and boosts hearing sensitivity)”
University of British Columbia literacy researchers find that kids who read to a dog are more likely to stay on task and finish even challenging passages:
… Read the rest “Dogs help kids read, just by being there and listening.”Camille Rousseau, a doctoral student
WBUR Boston reports on new hope against a nasty tick-borne ailment, now that Massachusetts researchers are developing an injection against Lyme disease:
… Read the rest “Lyme disease shot to be tested next year”In their latest update, the researchers
A lilac kingfisher, as pictured in the 1800s in A Monograph of the Alcedinidae, found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
It’s a bird from Sulawesi, … Read the rest “Science Art: Pl. 119 Cittura cyanotis, from A monograph of the Alcedinidae : or, family of kingfishers by Richard Bowdler Sharpe.”
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