biology
Public contributions to science increasingly common
Posted in Featured, Science on 19th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
Biology and ecology have a long tradition of citizen science. Researchers relied on the public to observe and classify animal and plant species for over 100 years.
Hormone boosts immune function and might extend lifespan
Posted in Science on 14th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
As you age, the thymus becomes fattier, limiting its ability to generate pathogen-hunting T cells.
Astronomers Want to Build A Forty Foot Space Telescope to Find the Next Earth
Posted in Hardware on 8th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
To achieve this, well need a spacecraft more advanced than anything humans have built, a telescope with 10x the seeing power of Hubble.
Not enough sleep may help alzheimers take hold
Posted in Science on 5th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
Disrupted sleep has long been a common complaint for patients in the early stages of Alzheimers, sometimes decades before they develop noticeable memory loss.
A mathematical model to explain animal stripes
Posted in Featured, Science on 30th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
Researchers have assembled a range of models into a single equation to identify what variables control stripe formation in living things.