Daily Beast looks over Washington University research that’s found that the singular diagnosis of schizophrenia is actually a compound disease, caused by eight different genetic… Read the rest “Schizophrenia: many diseases in one”
Science Daily blows the whistle on the MIT robotics engineers who let the robot cheetah off its tether to run and jump like a wild beast:
… Read the rest “Robot cheetah runs free!”The team recently took the robot for a test run on MIT’s
Take a deep breath.
This is the inside of your lung, seen really closely. At the time his was drawn, we weren’t really sure what it did, other than… breathe. … Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 3, Transverse Section of a Single Cell by F. Bauer, Esq., F.R.S., 1827.”
Science Daily explores the weird, microscopic world of
making ceramics that can bend and twist and smush and reform:
… Read the rest “Bendy ceramics.”Caltech materials scientist Julia Greer and her colleagues…explain
Outside has a hopeful, intriguing report on an Australian company that’s figured out how to print electricity-generating solar cells on plastic… or whatever:
… Read the rest “Printing solar cells.”The Victorian
BBC reports the in no way worrisome news that researchers have discovered a correlation benzodiazepines (pills for anxiety and sleep) and a hugely increased risk of dementia:
… Read the rest “Worried? Trouble sleeping? Congrats, you might have a higher risk of Alzheimer’s.”A study of
It’s taken quite a while, but AP can finally report that blue whales off the coast of California have finally reached pre-whaling-industry levels:
… Read the rest “Blue whales have recovered, just about.”Researchers previously assumed
It helps, as the BBC points out, if you’re washing your hands in a river running through one of the world’s oldest civilizations. But for an 11-year-old boy in China’s… Read the rest “Kid finds 3,000-year-old sword… while washing his hands.”
This is the heart (and brain and pretty much anything that’s not an arm) of a brittle star, as sketched for Echinodermata, a study of the sea urchins, sand dollars, sea stars and close… Read the rest “Science Art: Echinodermata, Plate V detail, by James A. Grieg, 1921”
Popular Mechanics celebrates a new *double* record-breaker, a dinosaur bigger than anything that walked the Earth:
… Read the rest “What do you call a dinosaur that isn’t afraid of anything? Dreadnoughtus.”Today an international team of paleontologists unveiled the newest
Science Daily breaks the news that telepathy – brain communication through machines – is not only possible, but scientists have already done it across 5,000 miles:
… Read the rest “Brain-to-brain communication via EEG over the internet.”“We
The Associated Press (through the Wall Street Journal and other outlets) has been sharing the discovery of the artwork that changes the way we think about Neanderthals… and the way… Read the rest “Neanderthals made art. Like we do.”
The Guardian brings a small tragedy happening a long, long way away vividly home with 10 well-chosen words: Russia confirms death of five geckos on space sex mission:
… Read the rest “Best headline contender: “Russia confirms death of five geckos on space sex mission””The federal space agency
ScienceDaily has more on a Northwestern University experiment using transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve memory:
… Read the rest “Magnets zap memories into brains.”The discovery opens a new field of possibilities for treating
This is a story of explosive growth, as told by the USGS Landsat satellite, and recorded in the Earth Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center “Image… Read the rest “Science Art: Urban Expansion of Shenyang, China, 2014.”
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