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Rosetta: What’s the big deal?

13 November 2014 grant 0

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?”

Don’t turn around. He’s standing right behind you.

12 November 2014 grant 0

Nature takes a second look at the neurology of feeling a presence right next to you:

Some people with relatively rare types of brain injury also experience this ‘feeling of a presence’. A

… Read the rest “Don’t turn around. He’s standing right behind you.”

Red Planet dreams: what it takes to sign up for a one-way mission….

11 November 2014 grant 0

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:

Despite not being a space-faring agency, it claims

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No, *this* is your brain on drugs. All interconnected….

10 November 2014 grant 0

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:

Prior

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Science Art: Hydrarchos Sillimanni, from The great sea-serpent, by A. C. Oudemans, 1892.

9 November 2014 grant 0

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Quoting here from Oudemans’ book:

In 1845 Dr. Albert C. Koch, “exhibited a large skeleton of a fossil animal, under the name of Hydrarchos Sillimanni

… Read the rest “Science Art: Hydrarchos Sillimanni, from The great sea-serpent, by A. C. Oudemans, 1892.”

Penicillin-resistant germ found – from more than a decade before penicillin was discovered.

7 November 2014 grant 0

New Scientist has more on WWI germ that can survive all kinds of modern medicines:

Ernest Cable was a British soldier who died in 1915 from dysentery caught in the trenches of northern France

… Read the rest “Penicillin-resistant germ found – from more than a decade before penicillin was discovered.”

“Amaze balls: Testicles site of most diverse proteins”

7 November 2014 grant 0

Yes, New Scientist comes up with another headline you just can’t beat:

Congratulations testicles, you make more unique proteins than any other tissue in the body.

The proteins in

… Read the rest ““Amaze balls: Testicles site of most diverse proteins””

Vaccine-resistant polio discovered. Yeah, almost a nightmare scenario.

5 November 2014 grant 0

Science Daily reports on a bug that’ll be keeping some public health officials up nights:

The global initiative to eradicate poliomyelitis through routine vaccination has helped

… Read the rest “Vaccine-resistant polio discovered. Yeah, almost a nightmare scenario.”

Screen light too bright, can’t get to sleep at night (now, eyes won’t focus right).

4 November 2014 grant 0

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).”

Little space package brings stuff home from the ISS, no astronauts required.

3 November 2014 grant 0

SpaceNews.com has more on the “golf-club bag” we’re devising for space station return deliveries:

The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the

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Science Art: Submarine Reactor, by Webber, 2007.

2 November 2014 grant 0

Submarine_reactor

How the submarine goes.

Found on Wikimedia Commons.

Atkins Diet Eases Epilepsy

30 October 2014 grant 0

Laboratory Equipment discusses research that’s found a low-carb, high-fat diet reduces seizures in hard-to-treat epilepsy:

“We need new treatments for the 35 percent of people

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Self-programming computers (little fake brains) fuel new start-up.

29 October 2014 grant 0

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.”

Hot cocoa helps you remember.

28 October 2014 grant 0

Science Daily has some cheerful news from Columbia University Medical Center neuroscience researchers, who’ve found that cocoa fights age-related memory decline:

Previous

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Science Art: STS 110 Insignia, NASA

26 October 2014 grant 0

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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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