Zapping the blues.
PhysOrg reports on a new treatment that aims at eliminating depression by directly stimulating the brain: DBS [Deep Brain Stimulation] uses high-frequency electrical stimulation targeted […]
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A Cowardly and Superstitious Lot.
I can’t say anything more about SciAm’s interview on the science of Batman. The article speaks for itself: What’s a realistic training regimen? I didn’t […]
Worms. Inside you. Making you better.
That’s the big idea behind this New York Times piece about the doctor who gave himself hookworms to see if they’d cure his allergies: He […]
Too clean for comfort (or “We’re composed of membranes too.”).
Nature recently published a story that should shock the clean freaks among us. Researchers have found that common disinfectants lower fertility and cause birth defects […]
Spray-on skin.
PopSci‘s got skin in a can. I mean it. An aerosol. You spray it on burns. It’s skin in a can: Within the next five […]