WEIRD SCIENCE
You can think of the brain like it’s like Amazon’s anticipatory shipping process. By Emma Betuel – Each night, the brain expects you to finally go to sleep, although not everyone actually caves to the brain’s request. Fighting that signal to slumber has all …
New study raises as many questions as it answers, but researchers say that’s the point. By Nina Pullano – As climate change increases flooding worldwide, the idea of relocating structures in vulnerable areas may become less of a last resort and more of …
The country has been laying the groundwork for a big shift. By Mike Brown – Australia is about to meet its renewable energy goals at lightning speed. The Clean Energy Regulator, the government body responsible for overseeing the targets, announced recently that it …
By Michael Irving – An artist’s illustration of a gas giant planet like GJ 3512b orbiting a red dwarf star. CARMENES/RenderArea/J. Bollain/C. Gallego. An unexpected discovery is challenging our accepted understanding of how planets form. Astronomers have spotted a gigantic gas planet orbiting …
The web extends over millions of light-years. By Passant Rabie – Galaxies that are spread out in the vastness of the universe are actually connected. A mysterious, dark web feeds their star formation and helps them grow, and until recently, scientists have only …
They could have been the “Adam and Eve of chemical evolution.” By Yasmin Tayag – Hydrogen cyanide is best known as a poison, historically deployed as a murder weapon in gas chambers and by federal executioners. But much further back in Earth’s past, …
FieldTrip is advancing the realm of clinical psychedelic testing. By Derek Beres – “u201cFun guy” and u201d harvesting Mazatec psilocybin mushrooms from their growing tubs May 19, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. Photo by Joe Amon/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images. FieldTrip Ventures …
That percentage of CO2 isn’t as small as you think. By Jason West – I heard that carbon dioxide makes up 0.04% of the world’s atmosphere. Not 0.4% or 4%, but 0.04%! How can it be so important in global warming if it’s …
US scientists say it may be possible to decipher words using new x-ray technique Nicola Davis @NicolaKSDavis – One of the Herculaneum scrolls scientists are hoping to read with x-ray technology. Photograph: Diamond Light Source/Digital Restoration Initiative, University of Kentucky. When Mount Vesuvius …
By Rich Haridy – In a 10-week-old embryo some of the highlighted muscles, found in some reptiles, disappear before birth. Rui Diogo, Natalia Siomava and Yorick Gitton. – A compelling new imaging study has looked at the development on human limb muscles in …
