The idea that coffee is good for you is not a new one.
More gender equal countries have fewer women in STEM, paradoxically
A new paper tries to explain this discrepancy.
US Senate says White House’s proposed DOE budget cuts are “short-sighted,” increases funding instead
Hahaha.
German researchers release open-source tomato and wheat seeds to boost research
Nice!
Public is skeptical of all research tied to a company, new study shows
It’s the corporations, man, I’m telling you!
This year’s 22 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts are out of this world
It’s incredible what humans can do with some funding.
Dank science: Jerusalem University launches marijuana study center
This new research center is set to deliver quite a buzz.
PhD students are 2.5 times more likely to develop psychiatric disorders than highly educated general population
Science has confirmed what PhD students worldwide already knew.
People are more willing to accept embryonic stem cell research than politicians
As stem cell research continues to be a very divisive topic, a new study has revealed that the general public is much more willing to accept it than politicians.
British research vessel gets named “Boaty McBoatFace” following an online poll
The world has spoken and the vote has been cast: people want to name the new British Antarctic research ship “Boaty McBoatface”
Your microbial cloud is your “signature”
Humans are walking ecosystems. Each of us carries around about 100 trillion microbes in and on our bodies, which make up our microbiome. The quality of this bacterial community has a lot to say about our health and well-being. The blend of microbes is also surprisingly unique, which says a lot about who we are as individuals. New research published
Can Hearing Aids Also Save Your Memory?
If you’ve ever lived with someone who’s hard of hearing, or have struggled with hearing difficulties yourself, you know it can be a hard condition to live with. Thankfully, modern technology has given us a wide variety of hearing implements that can let us salvage this precious physical sense. But hearing loss can come with a number of related symptoms
A Second Look at the Iceman – New discoveries motivate new analyses
Hikers discovered Ötzi the Iceman in the Ötztal Alps of Tyrol, Austria in 1991. Forensic analysis showed that he died around 5,300 years ago, making his the oldest intact human body every found. Ötzi had been preserved by glacier ice and was found with his tools, clothes, and weapons – a time capsule of Copper Age life. While years of
On Genetic Manipulation and the Government’s Role in Science
In an announcement that’s been a long time coming for science fiction fans, the White House has, for the first time, come out in support of a global moratorium on altering the human germline. It’s a decision that has implications not just for this particular type of scientific inquiry, but also for the future of government involvement in science. With
A New Class of Magnet Could Mean New Tech Capabilities
Researchers have discovered a new class of magnet that increases in volume when placed in a magnetic field and generates only negligible amounts of heat in the process. These properties could transform many existing technologies and enable a few new ones. Harsh Deep Chopra, Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Temple University, and Manfred Wuttig, Professor of Materials Science
US lawmakers in charge of NASA and environmental funding don’t understand science
The people in charge of funding for NASA and environmental research, Republican senators Ted Cruz and James Inhofe, have a record of not understanding science and making pseudoscientific affirmations. While I won’t discuss the politics here (we never do), the fact that such important matters fall onto the shoulders of people known to be pretty much adversaries of science cannot be left unchecked.
Science at risk as young researchers increasingly denied research grants
America’s young scientists are constantly losing the battle to receive more funding. They’re losing research dollars, leaving research altogether and creating a brain drain which puts a big question mark regarding the future of science.
Nature journals make all their articles free to view
Nature, one of the biggest academic journal groups has announced that they will make all their articles free to view. While the articles will be available for anyone to read, they cannot be copied, printed or downloaded, the journal’s publisher Macmillan announced on 2 December. “Subscribers to 49 journals on nature.com will be able to share a unique URL to a full
Increase Your Memory… With a Pill?
What if you could increase your ability to remember with a pill? This may not be an idea just for science fiction novels. Scientists have discovered a method that could strengthen long-term memories. A protein called PKR functions to maintain a relatively low level of excitability by enhancing GABA synaptic transmission. GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter; it decreases synaptic stimuli
Dutch researcher created super-influenza, with the capacity of killing billions
A Dutch researcher has created a virus so deadly that it has the potential to wipe out half of the world’s population. Now, researchers and experts seem to consider that this research is so dangerous it shouldn’t even be published; there are voices which state this shouldn’t even have happened. The virus in case is a mutation of the avian