Science Daily takes a look at propolis, the sticky putty-like stuff honeybees use to seal up their hives. There are all kinds of health claims made about it, but one study shows that it can … Read the rest “Honeybee stuff makes your hair grow.”
New Scientist tries to keep some perspective about our great-great-etc. grandfather, Ursolestes, a prehistoric primate who might seem to us, a squirrel monkey. To dinosaurs, a giant… Read the rest “The mighty (tiny, but mighty) primate ancestor… waaay bigger than expected.”
Science Daily reveals that two kinds of phthalates – chemicals found in ordinary stuff like dryer sheets, soap, lipstick and vinyl fabrics – can drop IQ points off developing… Read the rest “Dumb chemicals drop babies’ IQs.”
Nature surveys the plastic in the seas, expects to see things like detergent bottles and Barbies breaking up into tiny “microplastic” particles, and doesn’t. So the… Read the rest “Once in the ocean, where does the plastic *go*?”
MedPage Today is among the sources spreading the determination (with no mincing of words) that sugar is just as bad as salt – if not worse – for your blood pressure:
… Read the rest “Sugar (especially the kind in fruit juice) is replacing salt as blood pressure enemy No. 1.”In a research
Making the invisible visible – the air over the South Pole, Australia, Tierra del Fuego, Cape Town and beyond.
From General Meteorology (Published Formerly Under… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 114 – July normal sea-level pressure, Southern Hemisphere.”
New Scientist reveals how menthol – something originally added to cigarettes to soothe smokers’ throats – actually makes cigarettes more ‘cigarette-y’… Read the rest “Why menthol makes it harder to quit.”
New Scientist pulls back the curtain on how electric eels “remote control” their prey, freezing them right next to their hungry mouths:
… Read the rest “Electric eels are puppet masters”The experiments that untangled these
Nature looks over some triangles – not unlike capital letter As – etched into a shell on Java and determines they were carved by Homo erectus, 500,000 years ago:
… Read the rest “Graffiti older than Neanderthals”By 40,000 years
Scientific American takes a moment, after all the hubbub last week, to think over what the success of the Orion launch means for NASA and the future of human spaceflight:
… Read the rest “Considering Orion.”“We haven’t had this
New Scientist turns our human expectations upside down once in the world of fiddler crabs. They seem musical (thus the name, after all), and they use that rhythm to win mates. But on closer… Read the rest “Dancing to the beat makes fiddler crab sexual… failures.”
This is how the the gooey inside becomes the crusty outside… oozing up from rifts.
The Economist is following Stanford researchers who are (literally) making some really cool stuff:
… Read the rest “New materials are really cool. Like, make-your-own-unplugged-AC cool.”Fully 15% of the electricity used by buildings in the United States is devoted to [air
Nature celebrates more wonders – potential ones, from flexible armor to affordable fuel cells – that we can make from graphene:
… Read the rest “Bullet-proof fabric and cheap hydrogen fuel… and it comes from carbon.”Protons’ ability to travel through graphene
Science News breaks some scary news to the fungus-phobic and those of us living in old buildings or moist climates. Researchers at CUNY have discovered exactly *how* household mold is bad… Read the rest “Worried? Forgetful? Is there mold in your walls?”
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