Acupuncture seems to work to ease cancer pain.
Nature steps into the alternative-medicine fray with research showing that acupuncture significantly reduces pain for female breast-cancer patients: Oncologists who conducted a trial of real […]
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Science Art: Red laser through irregular glass mj1, by Mariojan Photo, 2007
Click to embiggen vastly A red laser pointer. A chunk of “bad” glass. A blank wall. And here, a remarkable thing. From the Wikimedia Commons […]
Falcon Heavy will carry Elon Musk’s car to Mars next month.
Ever the showman, Elon Musk has announced his plans (via Agence France-Presse) to not only launch one of the largest rockets ever into Mars orbit […]
A living tattoo that’s also a computer.
Science Daily reveals how MIT researchers used 3D printing to create the world’s first temporary tattoo made from living cells that act as sensors or […]
We found some runes by the railway….
LiveScience reports on Norwegian railway construction workers who found a whetstone carved with a (relatively rare) runic inscription: Runic writing was used in Norway and […]
Science Art: The Great Telescope, Melbourne Observatory
Click to embiggen Look up! I’m not sure exactly what the story is behind this image, because it’s part of the bewildering-but-great (and partially mechanically […]
Pterodactyl treasure trove.
The Guardian takes us to Xinjiang, where paleontologists have opened a new window onto the past by unearthing an amazing trove of fossilized pterodactyl eggs: […]
Ancient women had strong arms, say bone studies.
Science News demonstrates how the prehistoric agricultural revolution was fueled by women with mighty arm muscles: In the early stages of farming more than 7,000 […]
Ketamine fights depression in mice – when a *male researcher* administers it.
Nature dives into some pretty weird sex-based results in pharmacological studies of ketamine: The findings, presented on 14 November at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) […]
Antibiotic switches on with the lights.
Nature reports on a new class of germ-fighting drugs that are light-sensitive, so they become active when the lights go on: A drug that can […]
Science Art: De XII Afbeelding (Banana) by Maria Sibylla Merian
Click to embiggen At the end of the 17th century, this was some weird and wild stuff – a fruit that in the Americas, they […]
China’s ready to make first contact with aliens.
The Atlantic has a great piece on the E.T.-hunting radio telescope that China just built (it’s twice the size of Arecibo) with a little input […]
“Brain training” video game beats dementia in trials.
Indiana University psychology researchers have definitely proved, after 10 years of study, that a particular kind of video game, as part of a brief brain-training […]
Science Art: Jupiter: A New Point of View, by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran
Click to embiggen This is a sidelong look at the king of planets from NASA’s Image of the Day gallery. The NASA folks say: This […]
Spanking makes their behavior worse
Science Daily has more on the Texas and Virginia researchers who looked over 12,112 kids’ experiences growing up and concluded spanking – free of all […]