Liver brains.
MedicalXpress reveals a new source for nerve cells without stem cells – making neurons from liver cells: Fully mature liver cells from laboratory mice have […]
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It’s really invisible.
None of this “invisible to X-rays” or “invisible in the infrared” business for the University of Texas. When they use carbon nanotubes to make something […]
Today’s science-crime police blotter…
Dateline: Washington state. 3news reports on a paleontological poacher pinched purloining a prehistoric proto-pig: A Longview, Washington, man accused of digging up the skull of […]
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 […]
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 […]