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It’s hard to fool a nose
Ann-Sophie Barwich is a cognitive scientist, empirical philosopher and historian of science, technology and the senses. She is assistant professor at Indiana University, Bloomington in the departments of history, philosophy of science and cognitive science. Her book Smellosophy: What the … Continue reading
Does Consciousness Require a Radical Explanation? | Episode 1804 | Closer To Truth
Does consciousness require a radical explanation? What causes consciousness? Our inner sense of awareness is at once most mundane and most bizarre. No explanation makes sense. Here are three novel candidates for explaining consciousness. Featuring interviews with Giulio Tononi, David … Continue reading
Why does your cotton towel get stiff after natural drying? – ScienceBlog.com
Cotton towels often become stiff when washed without fabric softener and naturally dried, but the mechanism behind it has remained a mystery. In previous studies, the research groups at Kao Corporation suggested the involvement of bound water — a special … Continue reading
The Dark History of Matches
SUBSCRIBED When we began mass-producing matches in the 1800s, workers in the factories started dying mysteriously. The history of our sparking little flame-sticks is darker than you think.
I found the man in the most famous physics picture ever
The most famous image in particle physics is this one of the ATLAS detector at CERN. It shows the huge scale of the machine especially because there’s a person stood there for scale. But my question has always been WHO … Continue reading
There’s Something in the Water
“There’s two kinds of lakes in the South: them that’s got Giant Salvinia and them that’s about to have Giant Salvinia.” Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in Texas, but its delicate eco-system is threatened by a seemingly unstoppable … Continue reading
World Water Day focuses on climate change and “safe hands”
Water and climate are inextricably linked. We feel the effects of climate change mostly through water: more floods, more droughts, and more pollution. At the same time, we can tackle climate change through water, according to a joint message issued … Continue reading
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The Story of a Coronavirus Infection – Intelligencer
How the novel coronavirus could take over your body (before you ever felt it). By Jeff Wise You call a friend and arrange to meet for lunch. It’s unseasonably springlike, so you choose a place with outdoor seating, which … Continue reading
COVID-19 vaccine development – Oxford Vaccine Group
A vaccine candidate for COVID-19 has been identified by researchers from the Oxford Vaccine Group and Oxford’s Jenner Institute. COVID-19 is a disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). SARS-CoV-2 was first detected in the city … Continue reading
Science Behind Virus: Potential treatments for coronavirus
As the search for a vaccine continues, the medical community is moving fast to find drugs that can treat the coronavirus. Two tracks are being pursued: the first one is antibodies against the virus, another option is antiviral drugs. Subscribe … Continue reading
How One Man Playing with Human Urine for… Reasons… Led to a Huge Scientific Discovery
Today we’re looking at one of the most significant discoveries in science that came about all as the result of one guy playing with copious amounts of pee… If you’d like the text version of this or references, you can … Continue reading
5 Times People Gave Animals Diseases | Reverse Zoonotics
Usually when we think about animals and disease, we think about illnesses that they transmit to us – like swine flu or Lyme disease. But illness is often a two-way street, and while animals can pass pathogens to us, we … Continue reading
