Of Mice and Research
As always, over the last few weeks there has been a plethora of research and new scientific discoveries published in the literature. Perhaps one of the most surprising studies is one published in Neuroscience...
Category: Snippets
Direct Measurement of Proton Magnetic Moment
The proton is a particle composed of two u quarks and one d quark, which makes it a hadron – a particle composed of quarks bound by the strong interaction (which is mediated by...
Gravitational Blasts from the Past?
Recently, scientists have made a huge leap in finding new evidence supporting the Big Bang model. The idea behind it is that all the matter in our observable Universe originates from an explosion that...
Death and Taxes
Benjamin Franklin is attributed with saying “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Although intended as a comment on economics, it does mirror a fatalistic view of...
Impulsive Animals
When trying to understand where a certain feature of the human brain has emerged from in evolutionary terms, we often turn to other species in the animal kingdom to investigate it further. In a...
Modular Smartphones Have the Potential to Cut Electronic Waste
Towards the end of the last decade, recycling of electronic waste in the United States of America stood at a pitiful 13.6% . Out of 2.8 million tonnes of waste, that accounted for just...
Hitting the Bottle: Stress and Alcohol Craving
Most of us are familiar with the feeling: craving a cold beer after a stressful week at work, or hot-footing it to the bar for a Pimm’s straight after the last exam of the...
New Cloaking Device Could Hide Future Buildings from Earthquakes
Usually if a building needs to withstand an earthquake, architects and engineers find ways to safely absorb its energy, for example, by building shock absorbers into the foundations. However, scientists at the Institut Fresnel...
