Science Archive
Archives for December 2014
From the Ebola quarantine wars to exercises that will add length to your legs and healthy e-cigarettes, these were the worst attacks on science and reason this year.
How geologic activity, melting ice caps, wind patterns, and even the weather affect the earth’s rotation.
Drug-resistant infections, Ebola, and fixing a broken clinical trials system are among the big ones.
Here’s the United States of sleepiness.
This new experiment shows that the screen’s light delayed sleep and made people groggier in the morning, too.
Congress keeps erratically killing and then renewing a key tax credit for wind. They did it again in 2014.
NASA’s high-resolution computer simulation shows how the greenhouse gas moves through Earth’s atmosphere.
Experiments show that psilocybin mushrooms can be a surprisingly effective treatment
#1: We seem to be doing more swearing than ever
There are 85 billion neurons in the human brain with 100 trillion connections between them. Here’s how scientists are creating the ultimate brain atlas.
This might be one of the better things that has ever come out of a comments section on the internet.
This is what happens when you give a psychoactive drug to your pet.
Try not to think about it.
Ivan Oransky is basically the Perez Hilton of science blogs.