Hot cocoa helps you remember.
Science Daily has some cheerful news from Columbia University Medical Center neuroscience researchers, who’ve found that cocoa fights age-related memory decline: Previous work, including by […]
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Science Art: STS 110 Insignia, NASA
This was the insignia of the astronauts who built the ISS. Or a big part of it, anyway. STS 110 was the name of the […]
Working nights? Lay off the spinach and liver.
Science Daily has more dietary recommendations for resetting your body’s clock: Disrupted circadian clocks, researchers believe, are the reason that shift workers experience higher incidents […]
Ketamine – “special K” – can break treatment-resistant depression.
Nature has more on how the veterinary tranquilizer-slash-rave drug can reverse “anhedonia” (the inability to feel happy) for 14 days – long enough to bust […]
We can un-remember for you, wholesale. (With light.)
Science Daily discusses UC Davis researchers who are using light to edit out specific memories: Optogenetics, pioneered by Karl Diesseroth at Stanford University, is a […]
Science Art: Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833
This is a celestial event recorded beautifully in E. Weiß’s Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt, the “Picture-Atlas of the Star-World”. I’m not sure, but I think that’s […]
Little swimming bowling balls, ever-faithful guardians….
Laboratory Equipment sings the praises of the latest soldiers keeping our harbors safe from attack – a secret army of (cheap) robot bowling balls: Originally […]
Consciousness after death – as long as you’re not on sedatives.
Science Daily reveals some interesting (and counter-intuitive) findings following the world’s largest medical study of human consciousness at time of death: The results of a […]
When icebergs floated off Key West…
Nature paints a more vivid picture of climate change – and the related changes in ocean currents – by retracing the paths of prehistoric icebergs […]
Secret U.S. shuttle set to land tomorrow, after two years in space.
Sound like conspiracy theory, doesn’t it? But Space.com is reporting on the easily-forgotten OTHER space shuttle program – the
Science Art: Phramgocone of Belemnitella, In Flint, 1851
Click to embiggen slightly A “phragmocone” is a fancy word for a shell of a nautilus or ammonoid, and “Belemnitella” is a genus of belemnite, […]
Fish researchers: “Our mirrors have become USELESS!”
Nature breaks the news to behaviorists – and this is more important than it might seem – that fish don’t really think mirrors are uninvited […]
Asian cave paintings reveal universal art.
National Geographic explains why cave paintings in Sulawesi are winding back the origin of “art” as a concept to our African origins: “Overwhelmingly depicted in […]
Manure fertilizer boosts antibiotic resistance… somehow.
Even, Nature explains, from cows that have never been around antibiotics. Something about cow manure runoff helps resistant bacteria grow in the soil: Because manure […]
Clear solar panels could turn windows (and smart phones) into power plants.
International Business Times reveals the bright future (from an economic standpoint, at least) of the nascent companies making clear solar panels: The “transparent luminescent solar […]