Nature has the details on what it takes to come back from a decapitation:
… Read the rest “(Can’t beat this headline) “How to regrow your head.””Knocking out a single gene can switch on a worm’s ability to regenerate parts of its body, even enabling it to
Futurity hops on the lactation train with a study that proves breastfed babies grow their brains earlier and better:
… Read the rest “Breast-feeding grows brains.”[T]his is the first imaging study that looked for differences associated
PhysOrg announces the discovery of eerie, ancient lifeforms in an Antarctic lake:
… Read the rest “Novel bacteria live in Lake Vostok. THEY LIVE!”The samples obtained from the underground lake in May 2012 contained a bacteria which bore no resemblance
Scientific American reveals that researchers have found evidence of what they call “microchimerism” – the children’s cells are living in their mother’s… Read the rest “Mommy and me. (Or, I can’t get this kid out of my mind!)”
Say that five times fast. Harvard Gazette wraps its tendrils around a new way to build springs based on the coiling shoots of cucumber vines:
… Read the rest “Climbing cukes clinch kinky springs.”Harvard researchers, captivated by a strange
NIH reports that cutting calories by two-thirds, contrary to what you might expect, might not add years to your lifespan:
… Read the rest “So maybe that reduced-calorie diet won’t extend your life after all….”Scientists have found that calorie restriction—a diet comprised
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This is Diphyllobothrium latum, a tapeworm that might make itself at home inside you if you eat undercooked fish. The picture comes from the 80s but it must’ve been… Read the rest “Science Art: 5257: Life cycle of Diphyllobothrium latum.”
BBC reveals a Japanese project that combines biology, engineering and beauty – spinning violin strings out of spider silk:
… Read the rest “The music of spider-silk strings.”Shigeyoshi Osaki of Japan’s Nara Medical University
Irish Times reveals the link between lousy decision-making and the hormone linked to lust and aggression:
… Read the rest “Testosterone and bad ideas.”Dr Nick Wright and colleagues at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at
BBC News ponders what it means for our bodies when Stanford University professors start shuffling around our cellular building blocks. Not turning stem cells into other kinds of cells,… Read the rest “Skin becomes brain”
The Daily is reporting on a revolution. DIY researchers are leaving the academy to take a punk rock approach to science:
… Read the rest “Garage biology. (Like garage rock.)”Three years ago, [Mackensie] Cowell and his counterpart Jason Bobe,
BBC News uncovers a strange complex of problems that humans have and chimps don’t. We get old. On the one hand, we live a long time. And on the other, our brains shrink:
… Read the rest “The human problem: long life and shrinking brains.”Anthropologist
Not just looking at – being around it. Science Daily has the skinny on how BPA is making male mice less attractive to females:
… Read the rest “Plastic isn’t sexy.”The latest research from the University of Missouri shows
Nature reports on the deep damage suffered by kids in orphanages – not psychological, but down in their chromosomes:
… Read the rest “Stress alters kids’ chromosomes.”Children who spent their early years in state-run Romanian orphanages
The book of love might be rewritten by each generation, but the pictures don’t change much. So MSNBC proves with its personal look at an intimate moment from a long, long, long time … Read the rest “Sex, 40 million B.C.”
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