Rhythm of memory.
MedicalXpress dances to the beat that makes memories in our brains: UCLA neuro-physicists have found there is an optimal brain “rhythm,” or frequency, for changing […]
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Randy squid.
Not like the name. Like… you know. The squid the New York Times says are ready to get it on, however they can get it: […]
Science Art: Tiangong 1, by China Manned Space Engineering, 2011
In case you hadn’t heard, China is building its own space station. Not planning to build. Not any more. Building. The Tiangong 1 mission launched […]
Science moves overseas.
That’s the gist of this somewhat mournful piece in The Economist regarding America shuttering its largest particle accelerator: It already looks likely that the successor […]
Psychedelic science spreads.
Salon covers the state of play in the burgeoning movement to use psychedelic drugs as medicine: “It was absolutely incredible,” remembers Kossut. “The first rush […]
DIY dinosaur. (A chicken comes first.)
Then, Wired tells us, comes a dinosaur egg. At least that’s one paleontological plan to flip the genetic switches separating “chicken” from “dinosaur”: Jack Horner […]
Angry fish.
Yeah, not birds. Discovery News writer Jennifer Viegas unveils the most bitter of best friends is likely to be the humble goldfish: A new study […]
Science Art: n238_w1150 (Plate XCV:Opisthoteuthis VERRILL) from The Cephalopoda, ed. by Carl Chun, c. 1915
Click to embiggen. Octopus up-skirts. For science. The provenance of this picture is a little hard to sum up easily: * I found it on […]
(Needs confirmation) Light-speed barrier broken?
AP is reporting that CERN has made a beam of sub-atomic particles travel faster than the speed of light: University of Maryland physics department chairman […]
Whole Foods’ Mind Control
Fast Company reveals the tricks of the trade. Literally. Supermarket giants are using subliminal suggestion and misdirection just like master magicians: For example, sales records […]
Outside the box isn’t easy.
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: […]
Sweet sounds (and the neurology thereof).
Science comes a step closer to figuring out the neurology of key – or how it is that we instinctively know what sounds good: Bernardo […]
Teenage brains.
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 […]
Science Art: False-Color Image Shows Proof of an Impact, by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft
Click to embiggen. Right now, as I write these words, the spacecraft Dawn is circling around the asteroid Vesta, trying to figure out how it […]
Gut attraction.
National Geographic looks at a new social network that matches “friends” based on their intestinal bacteria: MyMicrobes, which opened to the public last week is […]