Love (hormone) against alcoholism.
L.A. Times examines the biochemical power that love – or at least the “love hormone” oxytocin – has to neutralize alcohol and beat alcoholism:
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Science Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreScience Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreScience Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreScience Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: We Ate Each Other's Wings
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreScience Art: Mars - Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
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SONG: White coffee and omelets.
SONG: “White Coffee and Omelets.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Cut Sugary Drinks; Add Coffee, Eggs“, Laboratory Equipment, 20 February 2015,as used in… Read the rest “SONG: White coffee and omelets.”
Breakfast is championed (at last)
Laboratory Equipment preaches the (newly embraced) health benefits of a cholesterol-laden, high-caffeine breakfast, championing the joys of coffee and eggs, hold the sugar, not the… Read the rest “Breakfast is championed (at last)”
Stronger than spider silk
Washington Post reveals the natural substance that beats spider silk for toughness, and diamonds for hardness – and it’s limpet teeth:
… Read the rest “Stronger than spider silk”In a study set to come out this month
Meet the Ruby Seadragon
Science Daily introduces us to a brand new sea creature, bright red and fantastically delicate, dubbed the ruby seadragon:
… Read the rest “Meet the Ruby Seadragon”Using DNA and anatomical research tools, Scripps graduate student
The DNA hard drive.
New Scientist marvels at the ability of DNA to store information, with a realization that glassed-in genes could safely store information for millennia:
… Read the rest “The DNA hard drive.”Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically
Telescopic contact lenses
They’re not exactly pretty yet, but New Scientist has the skinny on a real James Bond-style super-gadget, telescopic contact lenses:
… Read the rest “Telescopic contact lenses”Developed by a team led by Eric Tremblay at the
Science Art: Variation of the Electron Density with Altitude in the Venusian Ionosphere, 1975.
A look at the solar wind – charged particles whipping off our nearest star – and what they do to the second planet out, Venus.
From a NASA technical document, a translation of … Read the rest “Science Art: Variation of the Electron Density with Altitude in the Venusian Ionosphere, 1975.”
Again, airships. With a little difference.
CityMetric takes a look at why the zeppelins went down in the end… and how one new system might bring them back
Today, the Van Wagner group, an airship organisation, estimates that … Read the rest “Again, airships. With a little difference.”
A social network for sharing your DNA. Online, I mean.
Fusion has the details on the growing community of DNA uploaders:
… Read the rest “A social network for sharing your DNA. Online, I mean.”Members of openSNP upload their genes along with things like their sex, age, eye color, location, Fitbit data and medical
One dad, two moms… on the cellular level. Now, legal. Almost.
Nature reports on a British legal ruling that’s a world-first, a step toward allowing medical scientists to create “three-parent” embryos:
… Read the rest “One dad, two moms… on the cellular level. Now, legal. Almost.”This technique, known
The age of the elephant rats.
Live Science describes a new sort of prehistoric monster – a bull-sized rodent with elephant-like tusks:
… Read the rest “The age of the elephant rats.”An amateur paleontologist first unearthed the skull of an extinct rodent,
Science Art: Plate 3. Compare this medical high frequency apparatus…
A bygone medical device, as preserved on the Public Domain Review’s selections from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry by Samuel Howard Monell, a 1910 treatise… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 3. Compare this medical high frequency apparatus…”
Faces of the sons of the Khans, in living color
CNTV reports on the discovery of Yuan Dynasty artwork – a trove of murals from the time when the Khans ruled:
… Read the rest “Faces of the sons of the Khans, in living color”The tomb was discovered last year when a heavy downpour washed away the top