Need some inspiration for spicing up your Valentine’s Day? Don’t just settle for the boring chocolate and roses. Ok, those are sweet and my myocardium will still give a sudden contraction to pump more blood from my left ventricle into my aorta if I get those on February 14th. But as Harvard scientists we can’t simply follow the stereotype; we [...]
I did not know a leap second existed. Yes, I’ve heard about leap years and as a strict proponent of the lunar calendar, which is responsible for predicting the date of one of the most celebrated holidays, Spring Festival, I think it’s totally legitimate. But wait, we’re arguing not about leap years, leap months, leap days, leap hours, oh for [...]
Can there really be a wonder drug? Lately research has shown that almost so-called cure-all has its downsides. So before you pop that daily aspirin to help reduce your risk of heart attack, stroke, or cancer, please note this article
In my humble opinion, this is perhaps the most exciting physics related news of 2011. First theorized by British physicist Peter Higgs, the Higgs boson, the so called “God particle,” if successfully created, would confirm the Standard Model explaining why every elementary particle has a mass. Two independent teams have been searching for this elusive prize at CERN, the European [...]
A recap of all the amazing findings and achievements of 2011, and looking forward to greater things in 2012 Click here for the full gallery
Scrooge exerting a force upward against gravity and increasing the potential energy of Tiny Tim: http://www.thegate.ca/reviews/05794/film-friday-a-christmas-carol-the-box/
Think that with all the things going on in the world that the environment has been pushed to the backburner? Think again. These companies have just been asked to retire due to restrictions of EPA policy. And that means fewer smokestacks and higher quality air for us all as we build our snowmen outdoors in the…er…upcoming white Christmas (come on, [...]
It’s the middle of midterm season, so my favorite topic right now is dinosaurs. My favorite type of dinosaur is actually the velociraptor, but since I couldn’t find any articles on that, I had to make do with the pterosaur. Boy these dinosaurs were huge. Their wingspan stretched about 7 meters (23 feet). Toothless pterosaurs could have wingspans of up [...]
We all know that when we don’t sleep our IQ’s take a nosedive into the pre-school pool. But here, doctoral student Bryson Voirin takes us through a fascinating journey with potentially the world’s greatest sleeper, the sloth, popularized by the image of Sid the Sloth in the children’s animated film Ice Age. So, the next time you’re feeling a little [...]
We normally think of C. elegans as harmless, translucent wimps. Sure, it may have thrice been a Nobel Laureate, but who can really respect a worm that when prodded, slithers away without a fight, and when starved or frozen hibernates in their dauer stage (a non-reproductive phase). But you might want to think again before you squish that seemingly identical [...]
