An unconventional take on vaccine design has been shown to protect mice against HSV-1 and HSV-2, the two most common forms of herpes that cause cold sores and genital ulcers, respectively.
Neuroscientists have implanted false memories into the brains of sleeping mice, creating artificial associative memories that persisted while the animals slept and influenced their behavior upon waking. The results, the latest to spring from this burgeoning field of neuroscience, appear this week in Nature Neuroscience
A recently published analysis combined data from nine studies to create the "life course trajectories of alcohol consumption" for folks in the UK. The study marks the first attempt at estimating, from longitudinal data, how our drinking habits change with age.
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Are you doing the environmentally responsible thing and trying to eat more produce and less meat? Hey, good on you! Pat yourself on the back. Now brace yourself for some bad news.
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If you're familiar with the original definition of "meme," you know that ideas can spread and mutate. But what makes memes spread faster? Anger. Here's a video that explores how "angry thought germs" can spread, and reinforce opposing viewpoints.
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission turns six years old today. The space telescope was launched the night of March 6, 2009 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The $600-million dollar mission has since become one of the most prolific – and cost-effective – scientific missions in history.
Do time-lapse videos put you to sleep? This creatively edited footage of Austria's various natural and cultural attractions is something you might actually enjoy.
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A new, noninvasive technique has been used to create a real-time map of the simian AIDS virus (SIV) in the entire body of a living monkey, researchers report today. The method is called immunoPET, and it's already turning up unexpected "viral reservoirs" where AIDS may gain a purchase in the body.
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Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes is one of the most widely revered comic strips of all time. Why?
This week's puzzle poses an apparent paradox. Given ten self-referential statements, your task is to determine which of statements are true, and which are false.
The characters on House of Cards have terrible sleep hygiene. "I've been pretty appalled by the Underwoods' poor sleep habits," notes science writer Jordan Gaines Lewis on her blog. In observation of Sleep Awareness Week, she lists three simple sleep hygiene rules that Frank and Claire would be wise to follow.
It is notoriously difficult to photograph an owl. The stately birds tend to be close-taloned with their trust, requiring several months to become comfortable with even one human handler – a fact that explains both the rareness of intimate owl portraiture, and the magnificence of these shots by photographer Brad Wilson.
Many people know that diamond is actually pretty common when it comes to gemstones (you can find millions of them in your typical candle flame), but who among us can actually name any that are rarer? Here, we present to you a collection of ten of the rarest gemstones on Earth.
Looking for good schools, good health, good morals, and good times? Well, then you'd need to find good roads first, according to the National Highway Association. Which is why the NHA drew up the first proposed highway plan in 1913.
A vast, ancient ocean reaching depths of more than one mile may have once occupied close to half of Mars' northern hemisphere, NASA scientists reported today.
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Rays and skates are members of a superorder of fishes called Batoidia (they're also in the subclass Elasmonbranchii, to which sharks also belong). Batoids are super weird. You should read about them. But for the purposes of this comic, what you need to know is that batoid undersides look like funny little faces.
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Bernard Meyerson, chief innovation officer of IBM and chair of the World Economic Forum's Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies, today published the Meta-Council's list of the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2015.
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Cats seem pretty apathetic about a lot of things. You might think music is one of them. But according to a new study, it's not that cats don't care about music – it's that they don't care about YOUR music. So what kind of music do cats appreciate? We're so glad you asked.
Researchers have cross-referenced a 3D model of Sophie, the world's most complete stegosaurus specimen, with data on the masses of living animals to calculate that the animal weighed approximately 1,600 kg (3527 pounds, about the weight of a small rhino) in life. Their findings are published today in Biology Letters.
