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This laser turns us *on*.

3 March 2014 grant 0

At least if we’re flies, it does. Nature has more on the laser beam that puts flies in the mood for love:

Optogenetics — triggering neurons with light — has been successful in mice but

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Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

2 March 2014 grant 0

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A scientific visualization from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio, who have this to say about it:

An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side of the sun on the evening of

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Should you really eat that lobster? On invertebrates and pain…

28 February 2014 grant 0

New Scientist takes a surprisingly nuanced look at the way things like oysters and shrimp might actually be responding to trauma. They’re not all the same. Research shows that, as… Read the rest “Should you really eat that lobster? On invertebrates and pain…”

Largest space telescope is ready to… observe.

27 February 2014 grant 0

PhysOrg has the skinny on ESA’s Gaia telescope and its quest to catalogue a billion stars:

Gaia will be able to discern objects up to 400,000 times dimmer than those visible to the naked

… Read the rest “Largest space telescope is ready to… observe.”

MIT astrophysicists set to detect just *how* weird the universe really is.

26 February 2014 grant 0

DailyGalaxy.com shares the weird – an experiment that’s been proposed to tell for once and for all if classical physics can explain the universe, or if everything there is … Read the rest “MIT astrophysicists set to detect just *how* weird the universe really is.”

Science Art: Cotylorhynchus, by Nix

24 February 2014 grant 0

CotylorhynchusByNix

The Tumblr illustrator Nix is having a paleoart February, creating a new illustration of a non-dinosaur, non-pterosaur prehistoric creature every day of the month.

This is the seventh… Read the rest “Science Art: Cotylorhynchus, by Nix”

Guild Salute: Michael Hearst, Songs for Unusual Creatures

21 February 2014 grant 0

Michael Hearst! Composer! Writer! Player of atypical instruments! Science fan!

You are compiling instrumentals based on wonderful animals, like the glass frog, the magnapinna squid… Read the rest “Guild Salute: Michael Hearst, Songs for Unusual Creatures”

Like a Bridge Over Troubled Cream… no, wait. South Central Skim? *Nightmilking*?

20 February 2014 grant 0

Modern Farmer reports on ongoing research that’s found that cows make more milk when listening to R.E.M. and Simon & Garfunkel:

Many dairies in the U.S. play either country

… Read the rest “Like a Bridge Over Troubled Cream… no, wait. South Central Skim? *Nightmilking*?”

Elephants empathize.

19 February 2014 grant 0

Science magazine reaches out with new research showing that elephants don’t just mourn their dead, but also try to comfort those in anguish:

The study “is the first to investigate

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Native Americans go back longer than we thought.

18 February 2014 grant 0

Nature examines a DNA test on a “Clovis boy,” whose DNA proves that 12,000 years ago, the ancestors of today’s Native Americans were already here:

…[T]he boy’s

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Mother’s milk made to order.

17 February 2014 grant 0

Breastfeeding, the Australian Broadcasting Corp tells us, is a little more bespoke than one might expect:

“Mothers are producing different biological recipes for sons and daughters,”

… Read the rest “Mother’s milk made to order.”

Science Art: Life restoration of Ischigualastia jenseni, by Smokeybjb

16 February 2014 grant 0

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Here’s a little (calf-sized being “little” here) fella from the Triassic period (the first of the three periods of dinosaur rule on Earth, a few million… Read the rest “Science Art: Life restoration of Ischigualastia jenseni, by Smokeybjb”

A cure for love.

14 February 2014 grant 0

New Scientist examines the biochemical roots of the emotion we call “love” – and the chemicals we could take to reverse the symptoms:

…[E]thics aside, what could

… Read the rest “A cure for love.”

Buildings kill just about one billion birds a year.

13 February 2014 grant 0

Ecowatch reveals how our cities act as killing machines, with a new study that’s determined that buildings kill nearly one billion birds every year:

In the most comprehensive study

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Diuretic drug appears to help autism.

12 February 2014 grant 0

Nature explains the unusual effects that chloride ions can have on our developing brains, and what that means for a drug that seems to help autistic kids socialize:

The findings, reported

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