…well have you ever ASKED it? Maybe it is more of a Picasso type of mouse. This seems like a completely absurd question. After all, art is thought to be one of the highest of the human endeavors, making things of beauty may be one of the things that makes us the species that we […]
Over at SciAm Blogs today, please check out this month’s Scicurious Guest Writer, Roshan Karki! He’s writing about science communication in Nepal, and the challenges that it faces. Make sure to head over and check it out!
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, asking about perfect pitch. Is perfect pitch really perfect? Probably not! It turns out that you can mess with people with perfect pitch, without them even being aware of it. Head over and check it out!
And by bigger, I mean older. At least, in this case. Do you know what makes a good burying beetle dad? One that cares for its offspring and guards the carcass (because the hotspot for beetle romance is on something dead) from invaders? It’s not the beetle who’s momma raised him right, or the beetle […]
Naked mole rats have a tough time getting cancer. Even though they have incredibly long lifespans for rodents, living up to 30 years (as compared to mice, which only live four years under the best conditions), they don’t tend to develop the cancers that are seen in other rodent species like mice, rats, and guinea […]
I have a piece out today over at the ASBMB Newsletter, talking about Imposter Syndrome. Do you have it? I do. But I’m not letting it hold me back. Head over to find out what it is, and keep it at bay!
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, looking at another OCD study (the second in two weeks!). This one is looking at how optogenetics can break a repetitive habit. What does it mean? What is the circuit? Head over and check it out!
Ecologists have to know their s**t. Sure, you might think, people who study ecology have to learn a lot of stuff about the area, they need to learn lots of different kinds of information. And that’s all true. But what’s also true is that many ecologists really DO need to know their s**t. Literally. It’s […]
Well, it didn’t LEAVE, but it did become far less common after 1500. Why? Was it leprosy? Or was it us? Or was is something else? I’m at SciAm blogs today talking about a brand new study on the genetics of leprosy bacteria. Head over and check it out!
What do the overconsumption of food and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) have in common? At first, this sounds like a trick question. But deep in the brain, the molecules underlying our behavior may come together for these two conditions. The first is MC4R, a receptor for melanocortin. It binds hormones and affects feeding behavior, mutations in […]