Photographic memory and multitasking explained
Photographic Memory This term is actually just a very broad term that could include an entire range of people and is often misused or misunderstood. It is important to differentiate…
Measles Outbreaks Shows Potential Dangers of Conspiracy Nutters
Conspiracy whack jobs have always lived among us. I imagine there were even some neanderthals with some interesting theories. After 9/11 you heard them tell us this was a conspiracy…
Breakthrough on chronic pain
For the first time, scientists have found evidence of neuroinflammation in key regions of the brains of patients with chronic pain, according to a new study from Massachusetts General Hospital…
Je Suis Charlie. Vive La France!
Pour mes chers amis en France Je suis un Américain et aussi un francophile. Le français était la première langue étrangère que j’ai appris. Je n’ai pas parlé ou écrit…
Kepler ‘rising from the ashes’
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the report of the Kepler spacecraft’s death was greatly exaggerated. Despite a malfunction that ended its primary mission in May 2013, Kepler is still alive and…
Creating ‘genomic origami’
In a triumph for cell biology, researchers have assembled the first high-resolution, 3-D maps of entire folded genomes and found a structural basis for gene regulation, a kind of “genomic…