Tag: Science
Yet another reason to continue with that borderline-problematic coffee addiction: a Harvard University study showed that subjects who had two to four cups of coffee a day were half as likely to commit suicide as those that didn’t. PopSci explains how the study was conducted: Researchers examined data from three U.S. studies evaluating coffee and […]
Everyone knows the Hudson River is nasty: nastier than the East River, nastier than the Harlem River–nearly as nasty as the Gowanus Canal. But surprise! New research shows it’s even more disgusting than we thought. According to a study by Columbia University biologists published in the Journal of Water and Health, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are now plaguing the […]
The skeleton of the Nasutoceratops titusi has been hanging in a Utah museum for about a year and a half, but it wasn’t until now that it had a name. Translated to “big nosed horned face” in English, the Latin Nasutoceratops couldn’t be a more fitting moniker–the beast’s schnoz is truly massive, and, according to National Geographic, “had large air spaces–or […]
We always knew there was something about those pigeons… New research reveals that human and bird brains are wired in a remarkably similar way — despite the fact that we’ve evolved down completely separate paths for hundreds of millions of years. A team from Imperial College London made this discovery when they made the first-ever […]
If you don’t know what a Quaalude is, find an old person — anyone who would have been in their teens and twenties in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Ask them about “ludes.” If you can’t, read on. The chemical name for Quaalude (“kway-lewd”) is methaqualone (“meth-uh-kway-loan”). Methaqualone and its most common chemical relatives etaqualone and […]
Before we get into this, it’s helpful to remember how sound works. An object vibrates at a particular frequency, which causes the air molecules around it to vibrate at the same frequency. Those air molecules bump into other air molecules, causing them to vibrate at that same frequency, and so on and so on, until some […]
Of all the weird things about the variations on anatomical acrobatics that was call “sex,” the uncontrollable grunting, panting and miscellaneous savage noises that come into play are possibly the weirdest. Evolutionarily speaking, what is the purpose of all that noise? To guide the lion straight up into the caveman’s love nest? To traumatize centuries’ worth of […]
This is Electrostabilis Cardium, a custom-bioprinted defibrillating organ It’s part electric eel, so it discharges an electric current at an instance of a heart attack. This is what an Electrostabilis Cardium transplant looks like. As imagined by Agatha Haines, Circumventive Organs bioart series imagines a near future of new organs: The ability to replicate and print cells in […]
GZA and a group of NYC students were literally dropping science this weekend, at the final event of Science Genius, a pilot program spearheaded by the Wu-Tang Genius that used rap to to teach biology, chemistry, geology and physics. After a semester-long lead-up, a handful of students battled for science rap supremacy, with the winner bringing […]
A new study from a team of Caltech researchers showed that a few quick electric shocks to the brain may lead people to perceive others as more attractive than they did before the shocks. Though the research opens up vast new frontiers for legions of people heading to the Meatpacking district to get laid, it […]
