The Atlantic, the Pacific… are sinks. Heat sinks. So says Scientific American, explaining that temperatures haven’t risen as sharply as they could have (YET) because the… Read the rest “Oceans are hiding global warming… for now.”
The Atlantic gives hope to the new generation of WebMD obsessives with a fascinating tale of an athlete who used the internet to figure out what was *really* going on in her malfunctioning… Read the rest “Triathlete uses internet to defeat her rare genetic disease”
A prehistoric worm with claws, says Live Science, has rewritten the origin story of crabs, spiders and mosquitos:
… Read the rest “Clawed worm rewrites evolutionary history.”According to a new study of the creatures’ odd claws, Hallucigenia
Science Daily takes us humans out of the driver’s seat and puts the germs inside us in charge of the menu tonight:
… Read the rest “Gut bacteria choose what you eat.”In an article published this week in the journal BioEssays, researchers
Neomatica explains how British and Australian researchers are figuring out why HIV patients show an unusual resistance to multiple sclerosis and its symptoms. It may be that MS is caused… Read the rest “HIV therapy might work on MS, too.”
This mysterious water-driven machine is from a mysterious Arabic manuscript, somewhere between 200 and 500 years old. The whole document is full of mechanisms with scoops… Read the rest “Science Art: Excerpt from The Arabic Machine Manuscript.”
Jesus lived 2,000 years ago. There was no such thing as the English language, and most human beings had never even seen paper. 2,500 years before *that* is when we thought the first Egyptian… Read the rest “Mummies: WAAAY older than we thought.”
Scientific American has more on the weird quantum effects that make consciousness go bye-bye:
… Read the rest “Anesthesia works by stealing electrons from your brain.”General anaesthetics may extinguish consciousness through mysterious quantum biological
Laboratory Equipment reveals recent findings (as cannabis becomes easier to research) that the marijuana plant might make better supercapacitors than the “wonder material”… Read the rest “Hemp really IS a super-material… in circuitry, that is.”
Ain’t that modern life all over? Real Clear Science exposes the (potentially) stinky way antiperspirants alter your armpit bacteria:
… Read the rest “Antiperspirant makes you stinkier. In the long run.”While most of us might only concern ourselves
Science 2.0 has more on the discovery of lots of phthalates in fine European wines:
… Read the rest “Fine wines – a plummy finish, a hint of earthiness, and some sex-bending pseudohormones.”It isn’t just the booze itself, a group of scholars contends it’s the packaging. Phthalate
This is from the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections in the Biodiversity Library.
I bet there’s all *kinds* of things in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.… Read the rest “Science Art: The Common Angler (Lophius piscatorus) (After W. Von Wright in Smitt), 1905.”
Science Daily has yet more research on the heritability of stress, with research that shows the effects of stress on one pregnant mom can last four generations:
… Read the rest “My great-grandmother was stressed when she was pregnant AND IT FREAKS ME OUT!”A first generation of rats
Scientific American reports on the technology that’ll help humans explore the Red Planet… first with fuel, then with air to breathe. The next machine to roll across Mars will… Read the rest “The next Mars Rover will make its own oxygen from CO2.”
Orbiting a planet is not that big a deal – moons do it all the time. And everyone you’ve ever known has orbited a sun. Feh. But a comet? The little snowballs have their own weird … Read the rest “Rosetta is orbiting a comet right now.”
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