Bloggers
You All Fall Down
Balanced on a rock Orange sneezeweed in your mouth; You drop in the heat. A pika will collect piles of wildflowers, laying them out in the sun’s heat to dry…
Sep 1, 2017
Health
Nanoparticle-drug combo turns white fat to brown fat with potential to treat obesity, diabetes
In a potential breakthrough for the treatment of obesity and diabetes, Purdue University scientists have found a way to deliver a drug directly to stored white fat cells to turn them into more easily burned brown fat cells.
Aug 30, 2017
Bloggers
Don’t HIIT too Hard
Hormones are made when we keep fit, Inside our bodies they emit; Imbuing us with strength unbarred, Try not to push yourself too hard.
Aug 25, 2017
Bloggers
A Collective Noun for Science
A valley in the sands of time, Beyond a place, a paradigm; A confluence, a new frontier, Where science breaks the bonds of fear.
Aug 18, 2017
Bloggers
Squalls on Distant Seas
You spin against opaque and barren skies, An ancient god now floating in the deep; Your secrets hidden from our prying eyes, An azure giant frozen deep in sleep.
Aug 11, 2017
Bloggers
An Elevated Imbalance
The crops that we all need to sustain life Are weakened by upturns in CO2; Engaging in this atmospheric strife Means less nutritious protein can accrue.
Aug 4, 2017
Earth & Environment
Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions
An interdisciplinary team of researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has concluded that bacteria in a lake 800 meters (2,600 feet) beneath…
Aug 1, 2017
Health
Blood test: Scientists crack code of chronic fatigue syndrome’s inflammatory underpinnings
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have linked chronic fatigue syndrome to variations in 17 immune-system signaling proteins, or cytokines, whose concentrations in the blood correlate with the disease’s severity.
Aug 1, 2017
Bloggers
A Distant Dawn
The empty cupboards of our Universe Are filled with neutral cobwebs of potential; All of them waiting for an opportunity To blaze into life and burn away the haze.
Jul 28, 2017
Bloggers
Humanising mice – more an exercise in testing the limits of the technology and less the answer to a cure for hepatitis C.
Modifying tumour cells from malignant liver cancer so that they shine brightly under specific conditions might seem like a neat trick.
Jul 27, 2017
Bloggers
The Skies Perpetually Revolve in Vain
Out amongst the dense, and yet seemingly empty fabric of space the Plasma starts to accrue, piercing through distant lands and unseen skies.
Jul 21, 2017
Brain & Behavior
Replacing a palatable high-fat diet with low fat food causes withdrawal-like symptoms in mice
Researchers have found that mice fed a palatable high-fat diet experience stress responses that resemble drug withdrawal when their food is switched to a low-fat diet.
Jul 18, 2017
Technology
Unlimited Contrast: Technique could lead to cameras that can handle light of any intensity, audio that doesn’t skip or pop
Virtually any modern information-capture device — such as a camera, audio recorder, or telephone — has an analog-to-digital converter in it, a circuit that converts the fluctuating voltages of analog signals into strings of ones and zeroes.
Jul 17, 2017
Health
Researchers find first genomic biomarkers in extracellular vesicles in veterinary patients
Researchers at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University have discovered important biomarkers in extracellular vesicles in dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease and congestive heart failure.
Jul 14, 2017