Stop studying. Take a nap. That’s the message from Catholic University of Leuven researchers who found that one more hour of sleep makes a big difference to your grade:
… Read the rest “One hour more of sleep makes a measurable difference”Additionally,
SONG: “Colonies.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “Bees build mental maps to get home”, Nature… Read the rest “SONG: “Colonies””
I love peppergrass. This is a great illustration of the middle part of the plant – there are actually some narrow, spiky-looking leaves that are even tastier. (I … Read the rest “Science Art: Peppergrass, by Zoe Keller”
Or so says National Geographic-profiled biopsychologist Lori Marino, an expert in the brains of “lesser” animals:
… Read the rest “Animals are people too.”Formerly a full-fledged research scientist who found
Live Science hails a bold new step in connectivity as researchers in New York City successfully transmitted a smell to Paris… via the internet:
… Read the rest “E-smell delivered across the Atlantic”NEW YORK — The first transatlantic
Science Daily has MRI proof that all those *boring* scales help switch on problem-solving, better-judgement brain areas:
… Read the rest “Music lessons build better brains”Executive functions are the high-level cognitive processes
The Independent opens wide with a new treatment that promises to help teeth repair themselves:
… Read the rest “No more dentist drills.”The technique, developed at King’s College London, effectively reverses decay by using
Argalnath makes music from hard drives and floppy drives. Like a DJ, Argalnath spins.
Look! Look at all the birds!
I honestly can’t find where this image came from originally, but it pops up just about everywhere researchers partner with NASA to do … Read the rest “Science Art: NASA Satellites [Earth Science Research Spacecraft]”
Washington Post is ready. We’re all ready. NASA is ready. They’ve figured out a way (maybe!) to explore distant stars with warp drive:
… Read the rest “Warp engines ready to engage.”NASA engineer and physicist Harold White
Who could resist that headline? But no, AP has it right – we’re the ones with the eerie, disc-shaped craft, and we’re trying to send it to Mars:
… Read the rest “NASA delays Martian flying saucer.”The space agency postponed
Nature writes so calmly about shockwaves of such epic proportions:
… Read the rest “The biggest particle accelerator in the *universe*… is made of galaxies.”Four massive clusters of galaxies are plowing into one another at a crash site about five billion light-years from Earth.
Or, as NPR clarifies, what’s not there that makes *us* want to count. With our feet. Studies of syncopation have revealed that it’s absence that makes you want to dance:
… Read the rest “Science of dance music: it’s what’s not there that counts.”Last
Aquaman may have had more going for him than he gets credit for. Scientific American reveals the amazing power fish have to reverse global warming:
… Read the rest “Fish are saving the planet.”By assigning a dollar value to carbon stored
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From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 28.
It’s a dyke, a rock formation between two layers of Australian rock like jam in a sandwich.… Read the rest “Science Art: “Dolerite” Dyke Traversing “Desert Sandstone”, 1872.”
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