Technology Networks reports on new Yale University research that apparently explains why psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, has a long-lasting antidepressant effect. The […]
Recode echoes a warning published in PNAS and signed by 17 researchers in fields as disparate as climate science, biology, and philosophy. They’re convinced that […]
An illustration of two reptiles, from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium II. These two creatures were painted sometime in the first decade of the 1700s by German […]
Inverse considers the environmental power of the cow, whose immense domestic population increases greenhouse gases (pardon me), but could also, new research proposes, be harnessed […]
New Scientist looks at a possible new addition to the human family tree, an early human skull found in Harbin, China, and tentatively named Homo […]
Science Daily shares UC Santa Cruz research into the strange psychological effects of virtual reality, which literally lets your brain lose track of time in […]
This bat is probably misnamed, since its wings are hands and it has a digit in those wings it would recognize as a thumb, just […]
Inverse looks at a potential answer to the puzzle of why, in a universe filled with so many stars, we haven’t found any evidence of […]
SONG: “Dream Agency”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science, 11 June 21, “Are advertisers coming for your dreams?,” as used in the post “Advertising in your dreams.” […]
Scientific American is looking up at the night sky and wondering if some new legal cases will keep the stars from being blotted out by […]
This image, from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, shows a fusion reaction contained by a force field. The magnetic fields force the plasma – the […]
New Scientist reports on the latest equipment – a magnet stronger than any other – being sent from California to France for installation in ITER, […]
Science magazine covers the pushback from researchers who fear a new battleground for spam and advertisers inside our sleeping minds: This week, a group of […]
New Scientist explains that reason Betelgeuse recently appeared to dim in the sky was that it was expelling gas: Miguel Montargès at Sorbonne University in […]
I’ve posted illustrations from this remarkable book of geometric studies before. This one looks, to this old gamer’s eyes, like 1D4+1D20+1. (For non-gamers: It’s the […]
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