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Would Standing on the First Butterfly Really Change the History of Evolution?
Singularity Hub - 30 Mar 2018 17:00
Martha Jones: It's like in those films: if you step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race. The Doctor: Then don't step on any butterflies. What have butterflies ever done to you? Science fiction writers...
Slow and Steady Waves Keep Brain Humming
Neuroscience News - 30 Mar 2018 23:39
Researchers reveal ultra slow waves of brain activity are linked directly to our state of consciousness.
Sticky yet slick material pulls water from foggy or humid air
New Scientist - 30 Mar 2018 21:00
Fog catchers can provide water for drinking or farming in rain-starved regions. A new material traps water with sticky lubricant to gather bigger drops faster
Adult Onset Neurodegeneration Has Roots in Early Development
Neuroscience News - 30 Mar 2018 19:27
Gene expressions in the brain that occur early in development may explain why some cerebellar stem cell populations behave differently in people with SCA1, researchers report.
Opioid Use Prevalent Among Electronic Dance Music Partygoers
Neuroscience News - 30 Mar 2018 18:01
Researchers report 10 percent of people who have attended EDM events have misused opioids in the past 12 months. The number, researchers say, exceeds national averages. Oxycontin was reported to be the most widely misuse...
From Lullabies to Live Concerts: How Music and Rhythm Shape Our Social Brains
Neuroscience News - 30 Mar 2018 17:45
Researchers reveal lullabies help sooth both baby and mom simultaneously. Additionally, playing music to babies help increase their attention and positive displays of emotion to their mothers.
Poor Grades Tied to Class Times that Don't Match Our Biological Clocks
Neuroscience News - 30 Mar 2018 17:28
A new study reveals students who have class times that are out of sync with their circadian rhythms tend to have worse grades.
The room where it happens
Symmetry Magazine - 30 Mar 2018 17:08
Symmetry goes inside the CERN Control Centre on restart day. Mike Lamont, the deputy head of the Beams Department at CERN, home to the Large Hadron Collider, turns and looks toward the entrance of the accelerator control...
Doctors Don't Know Why This Synthetic Pot Is Making People's Eyes Bleed
Live Science - 30 Mar 2018 17:05Here's What a Single Milkshake Does to Your Blood Vessels
Live Science - 30 Mar 2018 16:14Facts About Hafnium
Live Science - 30 Mar 2018 16:05Beams are back in the LHC
Phys.org - 30 Mar 2018 15:40
The Large Hadron Collider is back in business! On Friday 30 March, at 12:17 pm, protons circulated in the 27-km ring for the first time in 2018. The world's most powerful particle accelerator thus entered its seventh yea...
What a mesh
Phys.org - 30 Mar 2018 15:39
A team of scientists from across the U.S. has found a new way to create molecular interconnections that can give a certain class of materials exciting new properties, including improving their ability to catalyze chemica...
Why Denmark Is the Happiest Country
Live Science - 30 Mar 2018 14:19Quantum Leaps: Read the Winning Entry in a Physics-Inspired Fiction Contest
Scientific American - 30 Mar 2018 14:00
The Quantum Shorts competition invited stories incorporating the laws of quantum mechanics --
Scientists successfully print glass optics
Phys.org - 30 Mar 2018 13:52
For the first time, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have successfully 3-D-printed optical-quality glasses, on par with commercial glass products currently available on the market.
Where Did the Easter Bunny Come From? Ask This Dead German Scientist
Live Science - 30 Mar 2018 12:24This Elementary-School-Age T. Rex Is a '1 in 100 Million' Discovery
Live Science - 30 Mar 2018 12:13April Fool's Crash: China's Space Station Will Most Likely Fall to Earth on Sunday
Live Science - 30 Mar 2018 11:48New math bridges holography and twistor theory
Phys.org - 30 Mar 2018 11:26
The modern-day theoretical physicist faces a taxing uphill climb. "As we learn more, reality becomes ever more subtle; the absolute becomes relative, the fixed becomes dynamical, the definite is laden with uncertainty," ...
GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature
New Scientist - 30 Mar 2018 11:00
Thanks to a spot of genetic hacking, silkworms can make a new form of silk not found in nature that includes a synthetic amino acid. It could be used in medicine