Instead of following the usual format today (find story, write lead, post an excerpt), I thought I’d do something a little different. The big story this week is about Philae, the little… Read the rest “Rosetta: What’s the big deal?”
Nature takes a second look at the neurology of feeling a presence right next to you:
… Read the rest “Don’t turn around. He’s standing right behind you.”Some people with relatively rare types of brain injury also experience this ‘feeling of a presence’. A
Medium takes a long look at the Mars One company, which has assembled 200,000 volunteers for a Mars mission that doesn’t yet exist:
… Read the rest “Red Planet dreams: what it takes to sign up for a one-way mission….”Despite not being a space-faring agency, it claims
IFL Science takes another look (courtesy of ISI Foundation researchers) at magic mushroom trips, and finds some surprises in what exactly psilocybin mushrooms do to your brain:
… Read the rest “No, *this* is your brain on drugs. All interconnected….”
Quoting here from Oudemans’ book:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Hydrarchos Sillimanni, from The great sea-serpent, by A. C. Oudemans, 1892.”In 1845 Dr. Albert C. Koch, “exhibited a large skeleton of a fossil animal, under the name of Hydrarchos Sillimanni
New Scientist has more on WWI germ that can survive all kinds of modern medicines:
… Read the rest “Penicillin-resistant germ found – from more than a decade before penicillin was discovered.”Ernest Cable was a British soldier who died in 1915 from dysentery caught in the trenches of northern France
Yes, New Scientist comes up with another headline you just can’t beat:
… Read the rest ““Amaze balls: Testicles site of most diverse proteins””Congratulations testicles, you make more unique proteins than any other tissue in the body.
The proteins in
Science Daily reports on a bug that’ll be keeping some public health officials up nights:
… Read the rest “Vaccine-resistant polio discovered. Yeah, almost a nightmare scenario.”The global initiative to eradicate poliomyelitis through routine vaccination has helped
I don’t normally go to Business Insider for science news, but they’ve actually got a pretty good rundown of recent research into the problems with taking smart phones to bed… Read the rest “Screen light too bright, can’t get to sleep at night (now, eyes won’t focus right).”
SpaceNews.com has more on the “golf-club bag” we’re devising for space station return deliveries:
… Read the rest “Little space package brings stuff home from the ISS, no astronauts required.”The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the
Laboratory Equipment discusses research that’s found a low-carb, high-fat diet reduces seizures in hard-to-treat epilepsy:
… Read the rest “Atkins Diet Eases Epilepsy”“We need new treatments for the 35 percent of people
You know it’s real when there’s money involved. Well, real-ish. New Scientist has more on the Google acquisition of DeepMind Technologies and their Neural Turing Machine… Read the rest “Self-programming computers (little fake brains) fuel new start-up.”
Science Daily has some cheerful news from Columbia University Medical Center neuroscience researchers, who’ve found that cocoa fights age-related memory decline:
… Read the rest “Hot cocoa helps you remember.”Previous
This was the insignia of the astronauts who built the ISS. Or a big part of it, anyway.
STS 110 was the name of the mission, the 110th flight of the Space Shuttle, or Space Transportation System.… Read the rest “Science Art: STS 110 Insignia, NASA”
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