Sleep cleans your brain. And lack of sleep, we now know, causes toxins to build up.
Quartz reveals the poisonous problem with poor sleep habits: [R]esearchers now believe wastes are forcefully pushed through the brain at a much faster and higher […]
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Let’s take a moment to consider the phrase “injectable brain implant.” Because it exists.
Nature describes (and even has photos of) an electronic mesh that can be rolled up and squirted out of a syringe into a mouse brain […]
They’ve got a camera that’s powered *by ambient wi-fi*.
BBC News has some details on a wireless device that gets charged wirelessly, too: The battery-free camera was modified so it could scavenge power from […]
Forget your passwords; use your brainwaves.
Science Daily takes security to a whole other level with a new system that relies on your brain’s responses to words as security instead of […]
Science Art: Comparison between Deinonychus and Velociraptor’s feet, by Danny Cicchetti.
Click to embiggen File this, I guess, under “the problem with Jurassic Park.” The little claw at the bottom belonged to the fearsome Velociraptor, a […]
Hellboy, king of the Triceratops clan.
Science Daily describes the regal bearing and frilly crown of Regaliceratops peterhewsi, the dinosaur they’re calling “Hellboy”: “The specimen comes from a geographic region of […]
Ritual intoxication in the Holy Land
Times of Israel reports on archaelogists puzzling out just *how* high Philistines were getting for religious reasons: In an upcoming symposium in Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, […]
Italian police pressure scientists investigating olive blight.
Nature uncovers just how hard it can be to do research when your subjects keep dying: In the past year, plant scientists at various institutes […]
No more moldy bats!
White-nose syndrome is the fungal disease (you might recall) that’s killing bats. Millions of them. But now, National Geographic is giving us hope that a […]
Science Art: LightSail by Josh Spradling / The Planetary Society
Click to embiggen This is the thing the last song was about, LightSail, which even now is orbiting Earth and probably (if it’s going as […]
Sleep away your bad attitudes.
Science Daily covers a Northwestern University study that shows how to remove biases from your brain while you’re sleeping: Other researchers have documented many unsavory […]
That Deepwater Horizon spill… it’s still killing dolphins.
Nature has the grisly details about the 1,300 dolphin deaths that can be traced to that one incident: The spike in dolphin deaths began shortly […]
Wood chips (of the computer variety).
Science Daily peers into the smoke clouds to see the truth behind biodegradable computer chips make from wood: Portable electronics — typically made of non-renewable, […]
Fire exposes something really interesting on Montana’s plains – an unseen stone complex.
WesternDigs.org reveals what we now know about the ceremonial carvings hidden for centuries under the sod: Among the formations are two large effigies — or […]
Plate LXXVII: The First Picture of an American Butterfly from The Butterfly Book by W.J. Holland, 1930 edition.
Click to embiggen In 1930, this picture… or rather, the picture with the inscriptions beside it… had never before been published. And the inscriptions are […]