The Guardian reveals how exerting the willpower not to eat that next donut actually lowers your ability to remember things clearly:
… Read the rest “Self-control eats your memory.”In the lab, self-control – or response inhibition, as
New Scientist gives us an update on what the Chang’e 3 lander has been seeing for the last two years:
… Read the rest “China’s space telescope: Two years of watching from the moon.”The 15-centimetre telescope is mounted on the Chang’e 3 lander, which touched down on the
Nature tackles the “reproducibility problem” – trying to find out why some WRONG things get published as being RIGHT, but also how exactly scientists get so good at … Read the rest “Wrong Science. As if the p-hacking wasn’t bad enough…”
A photo of that icy, cold, faraway, beautiful neighbor, just snapped by NASA.
Found in the New Horizons Image Gallery.
NASA’s Deep Horizons has found traces of good ol’ H2O on that dwarf planet at the fringe of the solar system:
… Read the rest “There’s water ice on another planet. Not Mars. Pluto.”In a second significant finding, New Horizons has detected numerous
Fusion goes beyond the three kinds of lies (“Lies, damned lies, and statistics,” according to… someone) and into the awful implications of trusting the data as it lies,… Read the rest “The third kind of lie: science vs. p-hacking.”
Slate (not The Onion) dishes on the Victoria’s Secret designer looking at the next generation of form-fitting spacesuits:
… Read the rest “Spacesuits made… sexy?”Perhaps nobody understands the intersection of aesthetics,
Western Digs reveals the latest discovery from the metropolis of middle America – where they practiced human sacrifice with their own citizens:
… Read the rest “Cahokian human sacrifices picked local victims.”But one of the many mysteries lingering
This is one of a whole deck of… well, they’re practically a technological tarot, really. They’re playing cards illustrating concepts in engineering. (The two of diamonds… Read the rest “Science Art: Five of Spades, from Playing Cards: Engineering”
Aeon asks some interesting questions about what’s really making us fatter – and why:
… Read the rest “If our diets alone are making us obese, why are vervet monkeys and mice overweight too?”As Richard L Atkinson, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at the
Science Alert (citing Environmental Science & Technology) shows us a new way to think about chucking out all that delicious “non-biodegradable” garbage:
… Read the rest “Mealworms can eat our plastic trash.”Researchers
TheLocal.it looks at the petrified remains of Ancient Roman volcano victims:
… Read the rest ““They ate better than we did.” Scans reveal Pompeii victims’ health.”A recently launched project that is performing CAT scans on the remains of Pompeii victims contained within
According to Quartz, in the African country of Tanzania at least, it’s WhatsApp:
… Read the rest “What social media app has the biggest political influence right now? Not Facebook. Not Twitter.”Things are a bit different in Africa, where the mobile phone has changed not only the way people communicate
First Post shows how NASA’s not the only one with big space news today. India has just launched their own space observatory from Sriharikota spaceport:
… Read the rest “How do you say “Hubble” in Hindi? “Astrosat” – sort of.”PSLV-C30 is carrying Astrosat,
The one carries oxygen around, the other keeps the system clean. They’re teeny tiny.
Image from the Electron Microscopy Facility at The National Cancer Institute at Frederick (NCI-Frederick).… Read the rest “Science Art: Red White Blood Cells, by NCI-Frederick.”
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