io9.com, appropriately enough, has the details on a treatment that seems straight out of science fiction – a virus that infects heart cells and turns them into a biological pacemaker… Read the rest “Virus rebuilds unhealthy hearts”
Brace yourselves for more global warming news. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is ready to post its next report. Most of us, like Scientific American, won’t really… Read the rest “Leaked report: Global warming is actually happening.”
Remember Alan Alda’s quest to explain what a flame is so an 11-year-old would understand? He’s polled hundreds of elementary-school kids and is asking another question now.… Read the rest “Flame Challenge returns… with TIME.”
SciTech Daily salutes the latest Cassini discovery – first surface liquid spotted on an alien world:
… Read the rest “Rivers on Titan”The international Cassini mission has spotted what appears to be a miniature
Discovery doesn’t have much to say about it other than, in essence, YES! FINALLY! WE FILMED A GIANT SQUID!
… Read the rest “Giant squid filmed at home.”Mankind finally confronts the greatest mystery of the deep as the first-ever
Telegraph does not take the ballooning helium shortage lightly, and neither does Cambridge chemist Dr. Peter Wothers:
… Read the rest “Chemist: STOP WITH THE CHRISTMAS BALLOONS!”Helium is a non-renewable gas that is used to cool magnets in MRI scanners
A map from the Massachusetts Environment Department City Archaeology Program, found on archive.org.
New York Times reviews the research demonstrating that MDMA, better known as X, can work wonders with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder patients:
… Read the rest “More on the “party drug” that’s helping America’s veterans (and others).”Government regulators criminalized the
Scientific American reveals that researchers have found evidence of what they call “microchimerism” – the children’s cells are living in their mother’s… Read the rest “Mommy and me. (Or, I can’t get this kid out of my mind!)”
Lost in Transcription’s “genetical book review” is a great idea executed well. Not a review of books as literature, but a review of the science in literature.
From the… Read the rest “Genetical book review”
Laboratory Equipment plunges to the bottom of a pressing mystery – why the “king of fruits” packs such a pungent punch:
… Read the rest “Durian mystery revealed: why *does* it stink so deliciously?”Martin Steinhaus, from the German Research Center
I think I’m happier not knowing exactly what this is illustrating. I mean, I think I can guess, but that’s not nearly as joy-inspiring as embracing the idea… Read the rest “Science Art: The Hairy Water Tortoise, Scientific American, December 21,1878”
Nature reveals the outdoor version of canaries in a coalmine – how researchers use swallows and homing pigeons to track pollution:
… Read the rest “Pollution-tracking by bird.”Nesting birds that feed on insects that hatch in
Laboratory Equipment points the way for the next big breakthrough in thinking machines:
… Read the rest “Quantum computers can work.”Many quantum algorithms require that particles’ spins be “entangled,” meaning that they’re all
Nature reveals that no matter what language you’re reading, your brain lights up the same way when you do it:
… Read the rest “Reading really is fundamental. Neurologically. (Or: A Good Book Is Universal.)”Previous studies have suggested that alphabetic writing systems (such
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