A week in the dark rewires the brain (and boosts hearing sensitivity)
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, […]
Month: December 2019
Dogs help kids read, just by being there and listening.
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 […]
Lyme disease shot to be tested next year
WBUR Boston reports on new hope against a nasty tick-borne ailment, now that Massachusetts researchers are developing an injection against Lyme disease: In their latest […]
Science Art: Pl. 119 Cittura cyanotis, from A monograph of the Alcedinidae : or, family of kingfishers by Richard Bowdler Sharpe.
Click to embiggen slightly A lilac kingfisher, as pictured in the 1800s in A Monograph of the Alcedinidae, found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It’s […]