California researchers develop drug cocktail that reversesaging — results ‘remarkably promising’
…and how much will Big Pharma be charging for this cocktail?
Strange magnetic pulses that happen at midnight detected onMars
Mars’ magnetic field pulses during the witching hour
How can cognitive science inform the future of education?
Improving education with techniques based on how the brain actually works
Physicists invent a new way to search for dark matter using lasers
Scientists are using a previously theoretical device to hunt for a theoretical particle that may confirm the existence of theoretical dark matter
Truth vs Reality: How we evolved to survive, not to see what’s really there
Persistence of Vision; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; our brain interprets our senses, it doesn’t show us the ‘real’ world
New CRISPR tools can cut, splice whole chromosomes
CRISPR advances in capabilities and the time for Kahn Noonian Singh draws ever nigh
One of a proton’s biggest mysteries isn’t a mystery afterall
Incorrect measurements can really screw with quantum physics
Swedish scientist advocates eating humans to combat climatechange
We want a ruling from the dieticians: good or bad for cholesterol?
Detecting patients’ pain levels via their brain signals
On a scale of 1 to ten, with ten being the worst pain imaginable….
Amazon fires are destructive, but they aren’t depleting Earth’s oxygen supply
Oxygen is kind of important for life on this planet: learn about its cycle
Dead bodies keep moving for more than a year after death, new study finds
Corpses keep moving after death….zombies, anyone?
Hurricane Dorian: Why are more extreme stormsstalling?
Severe hurricanes are not only becoming stronger and more common, but many are also moving more slowly and even stalling
Sea snail goo could help prevent colon cancer, study shows
Yet anothe reason to preserve our environment
Many vegetative patients are actually ‘covertly conscious’
Imagine being trapped in such a state…horrific. Studying this could lead to better therapies.
Does chiropractic work?
Taking a look at what may be a pseudoscience
The supervolcano that can wipe out the U.S. and kill billions may be overdue for an eruption
Supervolcanoes, including the one in Yellowstone, are the existential threat to humanity we’ve all been ignoring
Plants have awareness and intelligence, arguescientists
Anyone questioning whether plants have intelligence has never seen or read Day of the Triffids
Biohacking: Why I’ll live to be 180 years old
How to live a very long time
Space is dead: A challenge to the standard model of quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics may be all wrong
Truth vs Reality: How we evolved to survive, not to see what’s really there
Galileo was saying that your eyes are lying to you. The earth actually moves and it’s not the center of the universe.
SpaceX: Starhopper soars above Texas in record-breaking test
Cool…that’s about all one can say…
New research suggests MDMA could be used to treat alcoholism
How is it that we keep on finding good uses for recreational drugs?
Astronomers spot only the 2nd interstellar object ever seen
Our second (known) interstellar visitor. Unlike Oumouma, this one is a comet, comet Borisov
Study links lower emotional intelligence to prejudiced, right-wing views
Less empathy, more right wing…makes sense
Cat ladies aren’t ‘depressed, anxious or alone,’ say UCLA researchers
Are cat ladys crazy? No more than the rest of us say scientists
Whales songs indicate where they’ve been — where they were born
Whale songs have definite information content
