Immune cells from the neck cause Alzheimer’s in the brain
In a strange reflection of the last post here, Science has a report on a study at Washington University in St. Louis that’s found immune […]
Month: September 2026
Accidental vaccines against dementia
BBC Science Focus shares an unintended consequence that’s good for us — a vaccine against shingles that has a measurable effect protecting people against dementia […]
Science Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least now we say it […]
Strange space object: not a planet, orbiting not a star.
Mashable reported recently on a mysterious thing in space — a body we don’t yet have a name for. The category-defying object in CD-35 2722 […]
Sweat against influenza
PNAS has a study on a chemical found naturally in sweat that, it turns out, helps protect against viral infection and the symptoms of flu: […]
Roman telescope heads for deep space.
NASA reports on the successful launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now bound on a journey to a LaGrange point — a spot […]