Science magazine explores the gut-brain connection further with a study that finds gut bacteria can help us get over our fear responses… unless antibiotics have […]
Science News reveals the strange habits of little single-celled swimming organisms called “choanoflagellates” that tend to gather together in clusters for specialized tasks – which […]
Just looking at heart pictures. No reason. Nice when they work right. Image from Wikimedia Commons.
Reuters reports on scientists – 400 of them – who have shed the stereotypical dispassionate patience that goes with, you know, gathering data over long […]
National Geographic goes (or went – this article is from 2013) into the science of forensic linguists, using computers to analyze things like word choice […]
Click to embiggen From Johns Hopkins circular “On the Structure and Development of the Gonophores of a Certain Siphonophore Belonging to the Order Auronectae (Haeckel).” […]
LiveScience looks at a lead tablet, translated by a Roman history professor, that consists of a dancer’s curse against a rival: The curse calls upon […]
Real Clear Science has a strange Japanese experiment (published in PloS ONE) in which researchers stole an insect-repelling trick from zebras and gave black cattle […]
Nature reveals the “missing link” for sharks, thanks to a cartilaginous fossil of a 383 million-year-old eel-like fish: Christian Klug at the University of Zurich […]
BBC News has the story (told in many photos) of Thibault, a man who has been able to move all four limbs with a robot […]
Science Daily takes a few deep breaths and plunges into a Columbia/Harvard/Boston University study that’s found that aspirin can protect lungs against damage from air […]
Science News takes rhinovirus by the (one) horn with a study that finds a weak spot in the way the germ spreads inside our cells: […]
A machine that converts heat into motion – an amazing feat – from the book New Conceptions in Science by Carl Snyder, found in the […]
National Geographic reports on a study that has found nicotine-based insecticides – the world’s most widely used pesticides – act like appetite suppressants for songbirds. […]
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