Butter-flavored Alzheimer’s.
ScienceBlogs pours it on with research that links a popular artificial butter flavor with one of the brain-destroying processes of Alzheimer’s disease: It found evidence […]
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Olympics 2016: powered by waterfall.
The Creators Project is already turning attention from London to Rio, where Swiss engineers are planning to erect a giant, power-generating waterfall: Designed by Swiss […]
Prehistoric poisoners push civilization’s start 20,000 years further back.
LiveScience looks at faint traces of deadly poisons that prove Paleolithic culture rose in Africa at the same time it did in Europe: “Our research […]
Smartphones save lives?
Gigaom strolls into a safer future, thanks to car-sensing apps that can help smartphones save lives: Although both cars and smartphones are filled with sensors, […]
“Extinct” tree lobsters coming back. Happy birthday, giant stick insect!
Grist welcomes a new citizen of Earth – a member of a species we thought was dead until they found a few last survivors on […]
Science Art: Giant Excavator, Wills’ Cigarettes.
Click to embiggen About 100 years ago, cigarette companies like Wills put collectible cards in their packs of cigarettes just like bubblegum companies did. Only […]
RIP Andre Hedrick. If you are reading this, you owe him a little something.
The Register pays respects to an unsung hero of computer freedom: CPRM is widely used today as the encryption scheme for SD cards. But by […]
Secret vegetarian recruiting tool: tick bites!
Sci-News reveals one more weapon in the war on carnivores – tick bites that
A new, magnetic atom
ArsTechnica looks into the fiery plasma of a blazing neutron star to discover a bizarre frontier of physics based on stuff that’s made from a […]
They built a living jellyfish out of a rat’s heart.
Nature voyages to the Island of Dr. Moreau… or at least in the same region… to speak with a scientist who enthusiastically made a living […]
Science Art: Irregular satellites of Saturn by Cocu.
Click to embiggen Saturn has more moons than many give it credit for. Wikipedia user Cocu knows, though. He writes: Orbits of the irregular satellites […]
SONG: National Primate Home
SONG: “National Primate Home.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Call for NIH research chimpanzees to be retired”, Nature, […]
Solar balloon wins NASA award
A new day is dawning, SpaceDaily.com has announced, with a sunny space balloon rising to new heights: The “High Energy Replicated Optics to Explore the […]
Uncovering the medical secrets of our past… through dentistry.
New Scientist takes a shine to the science of archaeo-dentistry… OK, I made that name up. But there really are experts out there who can […]
Three-hour sex sessions exhaust squid.
I can do no better than that LiveScience headline. Why is it so many of the most fascinating cephalopod research stories are about their multi-limbed […]