Science Daily shows how UC-Davis researchers are teaching mice how to consciously control the dopamine in their brains, turning on the reward centers of their brain… in order to … Read the rest ““Willful” control of the brain’s feel-good chemical.”
The only answer is “We don’t really know,” but as Reuters explains, that isn’t really good news however you look at it:
… Read the rest “Why are these Patagonian lakes turning pink?”The lakes, located near an industrial park
This is a photo taken by the Mars helicopter Ingenuity‘s navigational camera. Although it doesn’t say so in the NASA image gallery where I found the photo, I’m pretty… Read the rest “Science Art: Black and White Image From Ingenuity‘s Third Flight, April 2021.”
SONG: “Listening”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Scientific American, 13 July 21, “The Neuroscience of Taking Turns in a Conversation,” as used in the post “… Read the rest “SONG: Listening”
New Scientist reports on research at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil, where Gabriela Niemeyer Reissig and colleagues have found that tomatoes being eaten by insects send electrical… Read the rest “Tomato plants have a kind of nervous system.”
Scientific American looks at a weird new power source, using probably the most common building material in the modern world as a kind of rechargeable battery:
… Read the rest “A square meter of concrete can store the electricity of two AA batteries.”Experimental concrete batteries
This is an advertisement in the back of the May/June 1965 issue of Information Display, the journal of the Society for Information Display. It’s a technical magazine for computer… Read the rest “Science Art: Car 5400, where are you?, 1965.”
Scientific American turns to chatty songbirds to figure out how it is that our brains process cues telling us when to talk and when to listen to the person we’re talking to:
… Read the rest “The neurology of conversations, or how our brains know when it’s our turn to speak.”We have all
PsyPost, reporting on a study in Psychological Reports, introduces us to the OBPS, a way to scientifically quantify the amount of useless, stupid nonsense we’re exposed to in the… Read the rest “There’s a new branch of psychology dedicated to the study of B.S.”
Popular Science reports on the U.S. Marine Corps’ experimental flying explosive robots:
… Read the rest “These drones can be flying grenades.”What sets the Drone 40 apart from a host of other small drone designs is the long, vertical
LiveScience looks to Antarctica, where a new expedition hopes to find Endurance, the ship which carried polar explorer Ernest Shackleton to the frozen south before sinking in 1915. The… Read the rest “Icy expedition hopes to find Shackleton’s Endurance.”
A cute little dinosaur, about the size of greyhound and just as much built for speed. Which is strange, because on the other end – the snout and teeth – it seems to have been built… Read the rest “Science Art: Alvarezsaurus calvoi, Reconstruction, by Karkemish.”
Britain’s University of Bristol has looked at a few million years of evidence and found that it points to a grim fact about the dinosaurs. Their population was already not doing so … Read the rest “Dinosaurs were already in decline before the asteroid.”
An Icelandic thinktank, Alda, has published a report on two multiyear studies that indicate it really is better to work smarter, not harder – or not longer at least. Workers in a four-day… Read the rest “People get more done working a four-day week.”
Technology Networks reports on new Yale University research that apparently explains why psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, has a long-lasting antidepressant… Read the rest “Magic mushrooms make lasting changes to the brain (and that’s a good thing).”
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