…or rather, the visual system. Cause you can’t really talk about the optic nerve unless you talk about the rest of the eye along with it. We humans rely pretty heavily on vision as a species. At least, being able to see is a lot more important to our daily lives than, say, being able […]
Today’s post comes to us from the fabulous Allie Wilkinson, science journalist and blogger at “Oh, for the love of science!” When she told me she had a new paper on anogenital distance…well I had to see it. And when she said she had a VIDEO to go WITH…well it’s below the fold. Everyone give […]
Today’s is the first in a series of posts on the CRANIAL NERVES, the nerves that innervate a good chunk of your body, and which emerge DIRECTLY from your brain. We’re going in order from the “front” of the brain, “brackward”. So today’s post is about the cranial nerve that’s the closest to your face, […]
YES, FOLKS! We have a new guest blogger over at the Scientopia Guest Blog! Please go and welcome Scientist Mother, a fantastic blogger on life and science and raising her own experiments. 🙂
I’ve been waiting for a while to take on another multi-part project (ok, I needed to recover from EB first), and now I think it is TIME. Time for a series SO LARGE that it’s going to take me probably more than three weeks, or even four to finish (with breaks for Friday Weird Science, […]
Ok, really today’s post isn’t about that. But it’s definitely the one major thing I took away from this paper. This post is actually about the effects of cell phones on semen. But refer to your semen as “neat” once, and well, it sticks with you. (These scientists like their semen the way they like […]
Sci has been intending to do one of these posts for a while. I seem to spend ages talking about neurons, synapses, action potentials, connections, neurotransmitters, and different brain areas. But for all that, a lot of people don’t really know what a neuron looks like and where the connections are taking place. So it’s […]
When we think of demographics that are easily distracted, we tend to think of younger generations, people on their phones over dinner or texting while driving, or only listening to you with one ear while they listen to their ipod with the other. But when we’re talking about cognitive tasks like working memory, the ability […]