There’s a whole shovel-load of politics wrapped up in this New Scientist report on the evolutionary effects of poverty on human reproduction:
… Read the rest “Teen motherhood: Evolutionary strategy.”There is no reason to view the poor as
… Read the rest “Science Art: Venus and the Ark, by Anne Sexton”The missile to launch a missile
was almost a secret.
Two male Ph.D.’s were picked
and primed to fill it
and one hundred
carefully counted insects,
three almost new snakes,
coiled in a cube,
Unfortunately, as NPR reveals, we’re not talking about the kind that’s still safely underground:
… Read the rest “How NASA finds oil.”The NASA Earth Observatory explains that since ocean waters are never perfectly
MAPS has published a study confirming that MDMA really does work in treating post-traumatic stress disorder:
… Read the rest “X in uniform.”Participants treated with a combination of MDMA and psychotherapy saw clinically
So New Scientist recommends in a new report on an artificial gut that allows robots to become self-sustaining:
… Read the rest “If you love a sewage-eating robot, set it free.”[F]ood-munching robots have been demonstrated in the past, often generating
New Scientist teaches you how to make yourself synaesthetic:
… Read the rest “Read in color!”Olympia Colizoli at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and colleagues… gave seven volunteers a novel
This image – a composite view of, well, everything – was made by the European Space Agency’s Planck Telescope, an orbiting observatory assigned to… Read the rest “Science Art: The Microwave Sky, Planck Telescope, 2010”
New York Times quotes research that proves exercise won’t save you. It’s the sitting that kills you:
… Read the rest “Get up. Really.”…[S]cientists from the University of South Carolina and the Pennington
New York Times gets to the fundamentals of the strange world of microbes-as-medicine:
… Read the rest “To cure my wife, you want to transplant my *what*?”“She was just dwindling down the drain, and she probably would have died,” Dr. [Alexander] Khoruts
BBC recently covered the salacious details when scientists discovered a squid’s enormous sexual organ:
… Read the rest “Super squid penis. (No, this is not spam.)”The male squid’s sexual organ is almost as long as its whole body,
BBC News reports that antidepressant runoff is encouraging shrimp to go toward the white light:
… Read the rest “Prozac pollution and shrimp suicide.”The researchers say this causes the shrimps to forget to hide from predators and, as a result,
New Scientist steals my innocent view of humankind before the Industrial Revolution. It turns out we were probably messing up the climate in the Ice Age, too:
… Read the rest “Humans: warming the globe for 15,000 years.”Last year, researchers at the
This is a modern tracing
of a 1461 illustration
of a 1364 drawing
of a mechanical clock
that represented the movement of the universe.
Smithsonian reveals yet another secret talent from the original Renaissance man. He was a forefather of fossil science:
… Read the rest “Leonardo da Vinci: Paleontologist.”In a new paper in the journal Palaios, Andrea Baucon shows that he
The same circuit that controls your jonesin’ for just one more is also, the American Physiological Society says, in charge of your heartbreak:
… Read the rest “Addicted to heartbreak”The pain and anguish of rejection by
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