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First Ten Searches
A link-based post for the first of the month. Here are the first ten searches today from visitors over on SciScoop's sibling site Sciencebase.com
Promising Results from Gene Therapy Trial
The BBC has reported promising results from a gene therapy trial designed to halt the progressive loss of sight in people suffering from a genetic condition called Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA).
Doctor Who Always Plays Hard to Get
We've all had the doctor who plays hard-to-get. Aloof, always in a hurry, impossible to have a real conversation with. But it's not you - or your chronic halitosis. Doctors are usually paid based on how many patients they see in a day. So, knowing this, can you really blame your doctor for always having one foot out the door? A new publication "Navigating the Medical Maze" is set to empower everyday patients looking for the best from their health care.
Eagles Flies Supercontinent Theory
Graeme Eagles of the University of London thinks he understands what happened to the supercontinent that existed before the present-day continents between 500m and 180m years ago. Apparently, it split in two because it got too big.
Evolution and the Law
Does evolution break the second law of thermodynamics? The law states that entropy, a measure of randomness, cannot decrease in a closed system.
Antioxidant Scam
Corroboration of what I and many other observers have been saying for years - that antioxidants and other nutraceuticals can do you more harm than good. A scientific review shows that people who use antioxidant supplements may actually die earlier than their counterparts who don't.
The Plastic Brain
by Norman Doidge Author of The Brain That Changes Itself Recently I wrote a book about the revolutionary discovery that the human brain can change itself, as told through the stories of the scientists, doctors, and patients who have together brought about these astonishing transformations.
Genesis Design
In his Art meets science concept, Michael Buckler (Germany) creates intersections between these two disciplines, using thin sections of meteorite as 'metaphoric materials'.
NanoArt
The artist created a nanosculpture (sculpture at the molecular and atomic levels) by freezing a tiny drop of colloidal graphite (graphite nanoparticles in a suspension) in liquid nitrogen at -196 degrees Celsius.
Heavy Gas Produces a Sinking Feeling
An "empty" glass tank, an aluminum foil boat a small beaker...enough to put David Copperfield to shame?
Seven Pains Not to Ignore
Pain is the body's way of getting your attention when something is wrong. Pain can be bothersome or serious and many of us think we're in tune with our bodies sufficiently to know when to act. But when pain is signaling something more serious it's time to get it checked out.
Best Steam in Town
Is there something better than water out there?
Discovery
A lone pilot flies towards his mothership after discovering more about an emerging cloud.
Art and Science, Hand in Hand
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) inventor, engineer, architect, mathematician, geologist, and astronomer, he is most famous for his works of art like the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Though best known as a painter, Leonardo primarily worked for the military, producing designs of airplanes, tanks and submarines, long before such war-machines were created. He is also famous for his sketches of the muscles & bones in the human body and also discovered how sedimentary rocks and fossils form.
Visualizing Magnetic Fields
Magnetic fields can be hard to understand or characterize. Two natural means of visualization are the aurora and the Sun's corona. In the laboratory, Michael Snyder and Jonathan Frederick of Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, have explored a novel way to visualize fields. They start with a Hele-Shaw cell, comprising two parallel glass plates with the narrow gap between them filled with a ferrofluid--a colloidal dispersion of 10nm ferromagnetic particles.
Art Meets Science
Welcome to the first SciScoop Art Meets Science posting. You can submit your science-inspired art or images from art-inspired science right here, right now. In this first edition, artist Randall Kopping, who suggested the idea of an art meets science section for the site, shows us his cosmic view of the birth of a galaxy. If you'd like to post your own artwork on SciScoop please follow the instructions here
Seven Ways to Become a Great Scientist
Writing in the open access journal Plos Computational Biology, Morgan C. Giddings of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, offers fellow scientists his seven top tips for becoming a great scientist. Follow these to the letter and you can start packing your bags for Sweden rightaway.
PMS and Epilepsy Receptor Found
Researchers have determined the structure of a receptor in the brain thought to be involved in conditions as diverse as epilepsy and pre-menstrual syndrome. The same receptor has even been linked to alcohol sensitivity.
SciScoop Six Pack
SciScoop is fast approaching the 3000 members, (join now if you're not already on the list). We've got a growing archive of almost 3000 articles, so check out the six-pack of top posts so far for 2008.
Nuclear Cannibals
Nuclear energy production must increase by more than 10 percent each year from 2010 to 2050 to meet all future energy demands and replace fossil fuels, but this is an unsustainable prospect because nuclear will have to cannibalize itself to sustain power plant production.
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