Nature strikes fear into the heart of the awkward would-be indie rocker with a study that shows people put more weight on the way a musician moves than on the actual music:
… Read the rest “When we judge a musician, movement matters more than the music.”The findings, reported
National Geographic explains why multituberculates – flexible, cute little pre-rodents – are so important. Before vanishing 35 million years ago, they’d been around… Read the rest “New fossil sheds light on one long-lasting group of mammals.”
Science Daily doesn’t actually get into the parents’ responses, but it’s easy enough to imagine. Columbia University researchers have linked soft drinks to “aggression,… Read the rest “Parents *shocked* by study linking soda to kids’ behavioral problems.”
In which the dissector becomes the dissected as well, sternum reaching upward like a bird’s wings in flight.
From Wikimedia Commons.
GigaOm has a great DIY project for space fans:
… Read the rest “These guys are tracking the Space Station with coat hangers.”Signals picked up by the antenna, which is made of a 10-foot wooden board and metal coat hangers, are converted into tones that differ depending
Or rather the solar system. The University of Maryland has put its foot down and said, no matter where you want to put the borders of the solar system, the plucky little probe is on the other … Read the rest “Voyager has left the building.”
Science Daily reports on a rebuilt heart – a mouse heart remade with human stem cells – that they’ve gotten to start beating:
… Read the rest “A regenerated heartbeat”For the first time, a mouse heart was able
Science Magazine examines our internal clock, and the power that sunlight has in saving us from being so tired of waking up tired:
… Read the rest “Electricity is sapping our sleep.”Turning lights on at night can delay melatonin release and
If everyone is stressed out, Scientific American seems to be saying, then women will have a mental advantage. That’s because stressed men are worse at learning:
… Read the rest “The worst learners are stressed-out men.”Male and female participants
A 17th-century guide to leg surgery. Unfortunately, my Latin’s not what it could be, so I can’t tell exactly what Dr. Joannis Sculteti is recommending we do here. I can tell,… Read the rest “Science Art: Tabula XXIII: De humeri fracti compositioni & luxationem cubiti, humeri, ac femoris restitutioni, from Armamentum chirurgicum, by D. Joannis Sculteti, 1656”
That’s the argument Laboratory Equipment describes some mathematical taxonomists (there’s a discipline for you) are making – claiming that some kinds of plankton… Read the rest “Some critters are so small, they can’t make a species.”
Science Daily has more on the strange, previously unknown sensory organ in insects:
… Read the rest “Mosquitos *taste* heat.”Notice how mosquitoes always seem to bite where there is the most blood? That is because those areas are
Medical Xpress reports on the colorful work of Ohio State U neuroscientists who have studied the effects of nightlights on depression:
… Read the rest “Red light beats blue mood.”In a study involving hamsters, researchers found
Nature has the details on what it takes to come back from a decapitation:
… Read the rest “(Can’t beat this headline) “How to regrow your head.””Knocking out a single gene can switch on a worm’s ability to regenerate parts of its body, even enabling it to
AP (via Yahoo!) has the first reactions to meat grown in a petri dish rather than on a farm:
… Read the rest “Lab-grown meat: first taste “feels like a conventional hamburger””Two volunteers who participated in the first public frying of hamburger grown in a lab said Monday
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