The Righteous Drug Smugglers
Of all the challenges facing the pharmaceutical treatment of brain diseases, the most fundamental is also one of the most difficult: getting drugs into the brain. Our brain comes with its own bouncer, the...
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Down-sizing to upgrade: How nanomedicine might, eventually, revolutionise cancer treatment
Nanocarriers, often referred to as ‘nanoballoons’ or ‘nanobubbles’, have long been considered the next big thing in cancer treatment. Yet they haven’t delivered the revolutionising results scientists and doctors have hoped for – perhaps...
Going Sour: A New Explanation for the Mass Dino Death
The undying mystery of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction – the one where the dinosaurs famously perished – has gained another plot-thickening twist. A Japanese research team now claims to have shown that acid rain,...
Promiscuous Primates Hold Key to Animal Intelligence Research
theGIST reports: Professor Dick Byrne at Glasgow Skeptics in the Pub
Party Animals
Tim Revell and Emilie Steinmark take a look at animal experience with intoxicating substances.
A Need to Chill
This autumn yielded yet another hypothesis on the Mpemba effect; are we closer to an answer? Emilie Steinmark wraps up warm and finds out
