Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. We can and do recycle all sorts of things. Paper, plastic, glass (OK, that last one not so much right now), Christmas fruitcakes…the list goes on and on. Wouldn’t it be great if we could also recycle the hydrocarbons we burn as fuel? Imagine …
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What lies beneath
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. The house in which I live was built in 1926. Over the years, as we discovered recently when we had the walls of a couple of rooms repainted, several layers of wallpaper and paint have accumulated. Peeling back those layers is a bit like …
Tearless onions
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. I’m a sensitive kinda guy. I fact, I’m so sensitive I sometimes tear up just during the process of making dinner. It’s not that I’m overcome with emotion at the blessing of having at my disposal the wherewithal to stir-fry. (I’m not that sensitive.) …
Coolest microscope ever!
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. When I was seven years old, I received a microscope for Christmas. It was my favorite gift ever, a window to a whole new world, especially when I turned it on pond water teeming with protozoa. Last week, scientists got their own belated Christmas …
Analyzing Oscar
As I write this, the announcement of nominations for the 80th Academy Awards still lies in the future. Nevertheless, I can make a make a few bold predictions: the actors nominated most likely appeared in dramas from major film distributors, and have either been nominated in the past or appeared in a film starring or …
A new way to control high blood pressure?
Like millions of other people, I have mildly high blood pressure: nicely controlled with drugs, thank you, but still a concern. Which is why this item caught my eye: Surgeons recently implanted the RheosR System into the first clinical trial patient. When the device was turned on, the patient’s blood pressure measurements significantly decreased. The …
More recent Futurismic posts
Looking for cool science stories? Here are links to my most recent posts over at Futurismic for you to check out: Inaudibility cloaks, like invisibility cloaks, theoretically possible Scientist creates dark matter in the lab! Heads-up displays, “super-vision,” via contact lenses Robots evolve ability to lie…and be heroes
Nature Number 1 revisited
Just over 138 years ago, on Thursday, November 4, 1869, the prestigious science journal Nature published its first issue. Now Nature’s entire archives have been digitized and made available online. (Not for free, alas: although you can browse the contents, you have to pay for complete articles.) Back in 1991, when I was communications officer …
Nature puts its archives online!
This is cool: the great science magazine Nature is putting its entire archives, all the way back to issue one, number one in 1869 (which I wrote a column about years ago when I came across a facsimile copy at the Saskatchewan Science Centre) online. You can browse it to see what’s in each issue, …
My recent posts over at Futurismic
I haven’t posted as many science items here as usual in part because I’m very busy, but also in part because I try to post something every day over at Futurismic. Here are some recent posts of mine over there you might want to check out: The debate over “Active SETI” Building blocks of life …
Promising Alzheimer’s news
This sounds promising: Reversal Of Alzheimer’s Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study An extraordinary new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer’s disease within minutes of administration of a therapeutic molecule, has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.I wrote a book on Alzheimer’s a few years ago.
The end of tooth decay?
We’ve all had the importance of tooth-brushing drilled (sorry) into us from an early age, and it’s not hard to understand why: humans have been plagued by tooth decay for as long as we’ve been human, and had teeth. Cro-Magnon skulls 25,000 years old show evidence of tooth decay, for instance, and as long ago …
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