Another amazing story from the who-would-have-suggested-that department. Stick a probe in a mouse’s brain, sit the mouse on top of a ball and project a virtual-reality game on an iMax screen in front of the poor thing. Teach the mouse to control the game by running on the ball, and reward it with a drop…
One of the topics I think I need to understand more is the reality or otherwise of human impact on climate change. My knowledge of that to date has been limited to the overwhelming media bias towards our culpability in that regard, and our consequent responsibility to decrease CO2 emissions. South African Lewis Pugh astonished…
Researchers recently claimed to have found water in the top layer of moon soil. Sounds promising … except that the concentration is lower than you find in the Sahara!
