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How Diet Can Change The Way Sugar Tastes – ScienceBlog.com
The taste of sweetness is highly subjective. Photo: Pixabay The food animals eat can change how they perceive future food. This response uses the same machinery that the brain uses to learn, new research has found.Researchers at the University of … Continue reading
The Race to Test the World for Coronavirus
There has been a wide range of responses to the novel coronavirus as it spread around the globe. When the outbreak began, the World Health Organization called on countries to act quickly emphasizing the importance of testing. As countries continue … Continue reading
Sorry Hulk: Gamma radiation found ineffective in sterilizing N95 masks – ScienceBlog.com
April 11, 2020 by Leda Zimmerman The research described in this article has been published on a preprint server but has not yet been peer-reviewed by scientific or medical experts. In mid-March, members of the Department of Nuclear Science … Continue reading
You aren’t getting it’: farmer urges public to stay away from fields
A Scottish sheep farmer has pleaded with the public to follow the government’s guidance to stay at home in order to prevent putting farmers ‘trying to provide for the nation’ at risk of coronavirus. Speaking in a video posted on … Continue reading
Time alone (chosen or not) can be a chance to hit the reset button – Aeon
Thuy-vy Nguyen is an assistant professor in psychology at Durham University in the UK. Solitude has become a topic of fascination in modern Western societies because we believe it is a lost art – often craved, yet so seldom … Continue reading
Virus Spillover, Wildlife Extinction and the Environment – It’s All Interlinked
The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spillover. As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, a common question is, can infectious diseases be connected to environmental change? Yes, indicates a study published today from the University of California, … Continue reading
Making Liquid Nitrogen From Scratch!
Making liquid nitrogen is hard – in fact up until 150 years ago scientists doubted whether it was even possible to liquefy nitrogen. In 1823, At the royal institution in London, Michael Faraday first produced liquid chlorine, kind of accidentally … Continue reading
Viral Counterpoint of the Coronavirus Spike Protein (2019-nCoV)
While we cannot see small nanoscopic objects like proteins or other molecules that make up virtually all living matter including our cells, tissues, as well as pathogens such as viruses, our computational algorithm allows us to make its material manifestation … Continue reading
Gut communicates with the entire brain through cross-talking neurons – ScienceBlog.com
You know that feeling in your gut? We think of it as an innate intuition that sparks deep in the belly and helps guide our actions, if we let it. It’s also a metaphor for what scientists call the “gut-brain axis,” … Continue reading
Tens of thousands of scientists are redeploying to fight coronavirus
Michelle Cipicchio (right) trains two lab technicians at the Broad Institute to extract viral RNA from patient samples.Credit: Scott Sassone/Broad Institute As labs shut down around the world, researchers are finding creative ways to donate their time, supplies and … Continue reading
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