Why the Mexican cavefish gave up their eyes

illustration: silverbackblog.com If you're a fish living in a cave, having eyes isn't going to be particularly useful to you. E...

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Don't trust Wikipedia when it comes to controversial science topics

That Wikipedia isn't a reliable source isn't exactly news to many of you, but despite its faults it is the most widely used online...

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Don't Use Bar Graphs to Represent Data

Many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. A recent criticism, published in PLoS Biology , has called into question the use...

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A New HIV Vaccine that Transforms Cell DNA

HIV-infected T cell. Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in California have managed to alter the DNA of Rhesus macaques to giv...

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Well-preserved fossil identified as new species of ancient Lungfish

3D representation of micro-CT scan data. Now christened as  Persephonichthys chthonica –  from  Persephone, a Greek goddess, daughter o...

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Overstating scientific progress makes people lazy about environmentalism

A paper by Dutch psychologists describes 4 studies that show that depictions in media of scientific progress made in battling climate ch...

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Direct brain-to-brain communication

Sender on the left. Receiver on the right. International scientists have managed to transmit words from one brain in India to another...

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Monkeys get upset with unequal pay

Capuchin monkeys were used in this study. Here is an interesting video that demonstrates so well that animals have a sense of fairness...

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Does your dog understand you're looking for your keys?

Scientists at the University of Portsmouth, UK, wanted to find out exactly that. More precisely to find out if domestic dogs understand hu...

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Monument to Lab Mice

There's a statue in Novosibirsk, Russia that is dedicated to honoring laboratory mice. Around the statue are smaller displays of ...

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Artificial 'biospleen' cleans up blood from viruses/bacteria

Nanobeads attach to  E. coli  (left) and  S. aureus  (right). There might be a new futuristic way of fighting viruses and bacteria. I...

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Send Your Name to an Asteroid for Free!

So have you ever wanted to visit an asteroid? Well, sorry, you can't. But if you want to have your name written on a space probe heade...

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Uwingu Will Let You Directly Fund Science

Have you ever wanted to do more for space exploration? Do you think it's a shame that NASA's budget is getting constantly slashed...

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A 281-Gigapixel Image of a Zebrafish Embryo

A new technique dubbed virtual nanoscopy can integrate existing electron microscopic imaging technology to visualize an animal completely...

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Rats look out for each other

Turns out rats are more emphatic than we first would have guessed. Scientists at the University of Chicago wanted to see if rats would try...

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World's smallest vertebrates

Paedophryne amauensis (top), P. swiftorum (bottom). Two new species of frogs have been found in New Guinea, one of them is now the smal...

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A few reasons to remain skeptical

The recent CERN experiment, involving neutrinos seemingly moving faster than lightspeed, is dominating the news and has a lot of people t...

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Scientists manage to record images in our mind

UC Berkeley scientists have managed to record and reconstruct a person's visual experiences. This is the closest we're ever been t...

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