SONG: “Forget” by grant.
SONG: “Forget.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Manipulating memory with light: Scientists erase specific memories in mice“, Science Daily, 9 October 2014,… Read the rest “SONG: “Forget” by grant.”
Articles by grant
Working nights? Lay off the spinach and liver.
Science Daily has more dietary recommendations for resetting your body’s clock:
… Read the rest “Working nights? Lay off the spinach and liver.”Disrupted circadian clocks, researchers believe, are the reason that shift workers experience
Ketamine – “special K” – can break treatment-resistant depression.
Nature has more on how the veterinary tranquilizer-slash-rave drug can reverse “anhedonia” (the inability to feel happy) for 14 days – long enough to bust sufferers… Read the rest “Ketamine – “special K” – can break treatment-resistant depression.”
We can un-remember for you, wholesale. (With light.)
Science Daily discusses UC Davis researchers who are using light to edit out specific memories:
… Read the rest “We can un-remember for you, wholesale. (With light.)”Optogenetics, pioneered by Karl Diesseroth at Stanford University, is a new technique
Science Art: Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833
This is a celestial event recorded beautifully in E. Weiß’s Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt, the “Picture-Atlas of the Star-World”. I’m not sure, but I think that’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833 ”
Little swimming bowling balls, ever-faithful guardians….
Laboratory Equipment sings the praises of the latest soldiers keeping our harbors safe from attack – a
secret army of (cheap) robot bowling balls:
… Read the rest “Little swimming bowling balls, ever-faithful guardians….”Originally designed to look for
Consciousness after death – as long as you’re not on sedatives.
Science Daily reveals some interesting (and counter-intuitive) findings following the world’s largest medical study of human consciousness at time of death:
… Read the rest “Consciousness after death – as long as you’re not on sedatives.”The results of a
When icebergs floated off Key West…
Nature paints a more vivid picture of climate change – and the related changes in ocean currents – by retracing the paths of prehistoric icebergs in the years when the oceans… Read the rest “When icebergs floated off Key West…”
Secret U.S. shuttle set to land tomorrow, after two years in space.
Sound like conspiracy theory, doesn’t it? But Space.com is reporting on the easily-forgotten OTHER space shuttle program – the Air Force’s top-secret unmanned shuttle,… Read the rest “Secret U.S. shuttle set to land tomorrow, after two years in space.”
Science Art: Phramgocone of Belemnitella, In Flint, 1851
A “phragmocone” is a fancy word for a shell of a nautilus or ammonoid, and “Belemnitella” is a genus of belemnite, which is to say, a … Read the rest “Science Art: Phramgocone of Belemnitella, In Flint, 1851”
Fish researchers: “Our mirrors have become USELESS!”
Nature breaks the news to behaviorists – and this is more important than it might seem – that fish don’t really think mirrors are uninvited strangers:
… Read the rest “Fish researchers: “Our mirrors have become USELESS!””“There’s
Asian cave paintings reveal universal art.
National Geographic explains why cave paintings in Sulawesi are winding back the origin of “art” as a concept to our African origins:
… Read the rest “Asian cave paintings reveal universal art.”“Overwhelmingly depicted in
Manure fertilizer boosts antibiotic resistance… somehow.
Even, Nature explains, from cows that have never been around antibiotics. Something about cow manure runoff helps resistant bacteria grow in the soil:
… Read the rest “Manure fertilizer boosts antibiotic resistance… somehow.”Because manure itself is known to
Clear solar panels could turn windows (and smart phones) into power plants.
International Business Times reveals the bright future (from an economic standpoint, at least) of the nascent companies making clear solar panels:
… Read the rest “Clear solar panels could turn windows (and smart phones) into power plants.”The “transparent luminescent solar
Antarctica has melted so much, it’s changing Earth’s gravitational profile.
Daily Beast has more on how 204 billion tons of melting glaciers have changed the way our planet’s gravity works:
… Read the rest “Antarctica has melted so much, it’s changing Earth’s gravitational profile.”Between 2009 and 2012, the years for which GOCE was taking data, the