In fact, PhysOrg says, new solutions to old problems tend to turn people off. The more creative the solution, the harder it is to sell:
… Read the rest “Outside the box isn’t easy.”The paper [co-authored by Jack Goncalo, ILR School assistant
Science comes a step closer to figuring out the neurology of key – or how it is that we instinctively know what sounds good:
… Read the rest “Sweet sounds (and the neurology thereof).”Bernardo Spagnolo, a biophysicist at the University of Palermo
A friend of mine who taught middle school called it “hormone poisoning.” But National Geographic takes a slightly more serious look at why adolescents do the things they do… Read the rest “Teenage brains.”
Right now, as I write these words, the spacecraft Dawn is circling around the asteroid Vesta, trying to figure out how it got there.
This is a “false-color”… Read the rest “Science Art: False-Color Image Shows Proof of an Impact, by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft”
National Geographic looks at a new social network that matches “friends” based on their intestinal bacteria:
… Read the rest “Gut attraction.”MyMicrobes, which opened to the public last week is looking
Science Daily pipes up with news that Berkeley scientists might have just cured the non-stop ringing of tinnitus:
… Read the rest “What’d you say?”“This work is the most clearheaded documentation to this point
Scientific American comes close to my ink-stained heart with their interview with psychology professor Timothy D. Wilson, a leading authority on using story editing to change people’s… Read the rest “Write wrongs with editing therapy.”
Fast Company has its eyes on tomorrow’s dinner with a new application for 3D printing – food printed to order:
… Read the rest “Printed dishes.”The newest 3-D food printer, now being honed at [Cornell Creative
Reuters reports on a potential Alzheimer’s cure that helps grow more brain cells:
… Read the rest “Smart pills.”“We make new neurons every day in our brain,” Andrew Pieper of the University of Texas
I guess I’m on a Lactobacillus kick. This is not confetti celebrating a Lactobacillus party, and it’s not a photograph of what happens when a Lactobacillus… Read the rest “Science Art: PDB_1h54_EBI by Jawahar Swaminathan and MSD staff at the European Bioinformatics Institute”
The Economist reveals the strange connection between your intestinal flora and your mood:
… Read the rest “Antibiotics: not so good for your *brain*, either.”[R]esearchers, led by Javier Bravo of University College, Cork, split their rodent subjects
Not in the long run, anyway. That’s how Wired sums up research indicating that our wonder drugs are killing the good bugs off for good:
… Read the rest “Antibiotics: not so good for you.”In a provocative editorial published this week
Scientific American reveals the moving mathematics behind the layout of the 9/11 memorial:
… Read the rest “A memorial algorithm”The planners of the memorial, which will be dedicated this weekend where the Twin Towers once
… that Brian May, member of Queen, the man who wrote “We Will Rock You” and the soundtrack to Flash Gordon, took time out from touring and recording to earn a doctorate … Read the rest “Did you know…”
PhysOrg has us looking for the mouse-shadow on the second moon with the news that alien life is likelier on “Dune” planets:
… Read the rest “The spice… and the worm….”Instead of aqua planets with abundant water on their
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