Science Art: 20alpha-Dihydroprogesterone 3D spacefill, by Jynto, 2011.
Progesterone is a hormone released by ovaries. It’s made from cholesterol, which might seem odd. It’s a key component in birth-control pills and in hormone […]
biochemistry
Using cows to end plastic pollution.
Inverse considers the environmental power of the cow, whose immense domestic population increases greenhouse gases (pardon me), but could also, new research proposes, be harnessed […]
After 20 years, they found the weird toxin that’s been killing eagles.
Science News celebrates a discovery that may save the lives of hundreds of eagles, ducks, and other birds living on or near lakes in the […]
Mouse livers could cure your sweet tooth.
Popular Science has more on the hormone from mouse livers that cuts sugar cravings: The scientists found that in the rodents, a hormone generated by […]
If our diets alone are making us obese, why are vervet monkeys and mice overweight too?
Aeon asks some interesting questions about what’s really making us fatter – and why: As Richard L Atkinson, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences […]
One drink makes you cuter. (Not the people around you, but the person doing the drinking.)
Live Science grants us deep insight into the biochemistry of the bar pickup, revealing that prospective partners look a whole lot better after they’ve had […]
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: …[N]ew […]
SONG: White coffee and omelets.
SONG: “White Coffee and Omelets.” [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Cut Sugary Drinks; Add Coffee, Eggs“, Laboratory Equipment, 20 February 2015,as used in the […]
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 […]
Honeybee stuff makes your hair grow.
Science Daily takes a look at propolis, the sticky putty-like stuff honeybees use to seal up their hives. There are all kinds of health claims […]
Antimicrobial soap might be killing you.
Sorry, was that overdramatic? Science Daily is calmer in reporting that University of California researchers have found that Triclosan, the stuff that makes antibacterial soap […]
“Amaze balls: Testicles site of most diverse proteins”
Yes, New Scientist comes up with another headline you just can’t beat: Congratulations testicles, you make more unique proteins than any other tissue in the […]
Clean up E. coli by spilling some human proteins on it.
OK, maybe “spilling” is a little imprecise, but Scientific American has the details on how to use a blood plasma extract to clean E. coli […]
Tobacco will save us all.
Science Daily has the skinny on how we might wind up using fast-growing, high-density tobacco to save the planet from global warming – by creating […]
A cure for love.
New Scientist examines the biochemical roots of the emotion we call “love” – and the chemicals we could take to reverse the symptoms: …[E]thics aside, […]