Role-playing video games can alter our experience of reality and numb us to important real-life…
Month: October 2013
How rats and mice came to have a unique masticatory apparatus, key to their evolutionary success
Rats and mice are rodents that have been highly successful in evolutionary terms, as evidenced…
Dutch TorRAT Threat Actors Arrested
Four men were arrested a week ago in the Netherlands for spreading the so-called TorRAT…
Dutch TorRAT Threat Actors Arrested
Four men were arrested a week ago in the Netherlands for spreading the so-called TorRAT…
Brief exposure to performance-enhancing drugs may be permanently ‘remembered’ by muscles
Brief exposure to anabolic steroids may have long lasting, possibly permanent, performance-enhancing effects, shows a…
Eleven new genetic susceptibility factors for Alzheimer’s disease discovered through the largest study
The largest international study ever conducted on Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the I-GAP (International Genomics Alzheimer’s…
What do we know — and not know — about fracking?
Fracking is in the headlines a lot these days, and everyone has an opinion about…
New material for quantum computing discovered out of the blue
A common blue pigment used in the £5 note could have an important role to…
Scientists eye longer-term forecasts of U. S. heat waves
Scientists have fingerprinted a distinctive atmospheric wave pattern high above the Northern Hemisphere that can…
Cell nucleus protein in brown fat cells governs daily control of body temperature
Body temperature follows a 24-hour rhythm, peaking during the day, low at night. The benefit…