Scientific American
- Brain Activity during Sleep Can Predict When Someone Is Dreaming
- Monkey Say, Monkey Do: Baboons Can Make Humanlike Speech Sounds
More here.
The Scientist
- Brain Listens During Sleep
- NIH Tackles Neglected Mystery Illness
- Bumblebees’ Electric Sense
- Quantifying Consciousness
- Another Retraction for Diabetes Researcher
- Locating Language within the Brain
- Antibiotics From Scratch
- Brain Keeps Watch During Sleep
Business Insider
- Scientists may soon be able to ‘cut and paste’ DNA to cure deadly diseases and design perfect babies
- A scientist who studies psychopaths found out he was one by accident — and it completely changed his life
- Here’s what fruits and vegetables looked like before we domesticated them
- I ‘showered’ in bacteria for a week, and it totally changed my definition of clean
- The scientist behind the most comprehensive study of brain training says apps like Lumosity are based on shaky science
- I controlled a robot arm with my brain, using this high-tech headset
Live Science
- Artificial Intelligence: Friendly or Frightening?
- Here’s What Zapping Your Brain with Electricity Feels Like
- Famed TV Explorer David Attenborough Shares His Favorite Adventure
- Growing Human Kidneys in Rats Sparks Ethical Debate
- Goliath Encounter: Puppy-Sized Spider Surprises Scientist in Rainforest
- Girl’s Uncontrollable Laughter Caused By Brain Tumor (reprinted by The Washington Post)
- World Cup Exoskeleton Demo: Hope or Hype?
- A Beautiful Mind: Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius
- Pompeii-like Eruption Fossilized Dinos in Death Poses (reprinted by Scientific American)
- Inside a Gross Anatomy Lab: The Human Body as Textbook
- “Incredible Technology” series
Space.com
- Take It to Your Leaders: SpaceX’s Futuristic Dragon Spaceship Invades D.C.
- Growing Up in the Shadow of Hawaii’s Keck Observatory
- Incredible Technology: How to Search for Advanced Alien Civilizations
Science News
- Disorder at Work
- Sea level rise overflowing estimates
- Hunting dark matter with DNA
- Gulf floor might be releasing seafloor methane
- Scientists probe fresh Martian meteorite
- Solar blobs collide with a bounce
- Black mamba bite packs potent pain killer
Wired
- Unlock Your Inner Rain Man by Electrically Zapping Your Brain
- Scientists Discover How Brains Keep Clean
- Engineering Life to Survive on Mars and Aid Human Colonization
- Giant Ice Avalanches Found on Saturn’s Moon Iapetus
- Hubble Unearths New Moon Around Pluto
- Scorpion Venom Heals Drug-Resistant Bacteria Infection
- Astronomers Use Zeppelin to Hunt for Meteorites
- The Classic, Beautiful and Controversial Books That Changed Science Forever
Santa Cruz Sentinel (reprinted by San Jose Mercury News)
- Santa Cruz becoming hot spot for tech: Locals to gather for TechRaising
- Davenport Marine Biologist Takes an Unconventional Approach to Saving the Oceans
- Kepler’s mission: Find planets like Earth
Other:
- Entertainment media skews public perception of chimpanzees in the wild (Mongabay.com)
- Genome on a Stick (BioTechniques.com)
- Scientists identify defect in brain cell channel that may cause autism-like syndrome (Inside Stanford Medicine)
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