Home-cooked Parkinson’s.
BBC reports on neurologists who’ve managed to not only create brain cells in the lab – but to make Parkinson’s-diseased cells from scratch:
… Read the rest “Home-cooked Parkinson’s.”The breakthrough means
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Tune into the li-fi.
Wired is all aglow over a new wireless transmission system that uses light instead of radio waves:
… Read the rest “Tune into the li-fi.”Using off-the-shelf electronics, he can stream videos using an ordinary light bulb fitted
Testosterone and bad ideas.
Irish Times reveals the link between lousy decision-making and the hormone linked to lust and aggression:
… Read the rest “Testosterone and bad ideas.”Dr Nick Wright and colleagues at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at
Skin becomes brain
BBC News ponders what it means for our bodies when Stanford University professors start shuffling around our cellular building blocks. Not turning stem cells into other kinds of cells,… Read the rest “Skin becomes brain”
Science Art: Quiet Engine Sonic Inlet, NASA Glenn Research Center
Let us take a moment, while contemplating the sleek engineering of the quiet engine sonic inlet, to consider that tie. That man is not a model. He is, in all likelihood, an engineer. An actual… Read the rest “Science Art: Quiet Engine Sonic Inlet, NASA Glenn Research Center”
Inside magic mushrooms… inside the MRI
Imperial College, London, is learning what makes psilocybin mushrooms *trippy* – and what that means for our brains:
… Read the rest “Inside magic mushrooms… inside the MRI”Professor David Nutt, from the Department of Medicine at Imperial
Lovecraft report: Scientists set to disturb primordial lake, deep under Antarctic ice.
Who knows what dim, multiform entities could yet lurk for silent millennia beneath that hostile, white blanket of impervious snow and unrelenting wind? Washington Post is almost ready… Read the rest “Lovecraft report: Scientists set to disturb primordial lake, deep under Antarctic ice.”
Python problem grows in the Everglades
National Geographic is watching South Florida with a growing sense of unease over the alien monsters eating any creature who wanders into the Everglades:
… Read the rest “Python problem grows in the Everglades”…[T]his is “the
A house mouse serenade.
Vienna’s University of Veterinary Medicine has been listening to the mice as the tiny Casanovas sing to impress the babes:
… Read the rest “A house mouse serenade.”It has been known for some time that house mice (Mus musculus
“Special K” for depression.
Into the K-hole and out of altogether darker hole… NPR looks at the new use for an old club drug (and veterinary anesthetic):
… Read the rest ““Special K” for depression.”[O]ne of the challenges in treating these severely depressed
Science Art: Leavitt Pumping Engine, from Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic, 1880.
E.D. Leavitt, Massachusetts mechanical engineer, designed many huge machines in the 1870s.They moved things, macerated and mangled them, mined and melted them.… Read the rest “Science Art: Leavitt Pumping Engine, from Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic, 1880.”
The Walking Dead anatomy lesson.
Popular Mechanics recently investigated the forensics of the zombie head shot:
… Read the rest “The Walking Dead anatomy lesson.”Dr. Steven Schlozman, has written extensively about the brain function of undead zombies (as opposed to
Building cells from the outside in.
Scientists have come one step closer to creating artificial life by building a cell membrane from scratch:
… Read the rest “Building cells from the outside in.”“We don’t understand this really fundamental step in our existence, which is
The new U: Take the red pill
The Chronicle of Higher Education is watching closely as a tenured Stanford professor leaves his secure job to teach at an online startup:
… Read the rest “The new U: Take the red pill”Sebastian Thrun, a professor of computer science
Drones of Titan
I never thought that within my lifetime, we’d be planning – as PopSci reports – to send flying robots to find aliens on Saturn’s moons:
… Read the rest “Drones of Titan”Physicist Jason Barnes