by Captain Skellett | Dec 15, 2012 | Recent Research
With huge eyes peering through a bundle of fluff, slow lorises are the epitome of adorable. Just look at that face! And that’s just what scientists have done – looking at the facial markings of slow lorises to identify one completely new species, and...
by Captain Skellett | Nov 10, 2012 | Recent Research
Did you know there’s a battery in your inner ear? It was news to me when I found this on EurekAlert.com. Turns out not only is there a natural battery, but a group is working to utilise it to run medical devices. The natural role of your ear battery is to turn...
by Captain Skellett | Oct 14, 2012 | Recent Research
Oh dear, I’m seriously struggling to keep up this blog at the moment. Europe is just so distracting! So many pretty things to see and history to learn, when I get home I usually just zonk out and berate myself silently for not having the strength to blog. I did...
by Captain Skellett | Aug 13, 2012 | Recent Research
Nothing like a stuffy nose to ruin your day. You sound like a ponce, food tastes like cardboard and you have to sleep with your mouth open for spiders to crawl in. No joke. It happened to a friend of a friend of mine. But have you ever noticed how quickly your sense...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 15, 2012 | Recent Research
Something happened when I was spliced, something wrong. Some random event in my chromosomes, I suppose it was. In any event, I wound up lacking. My sister took all the toxin genes, and I was left with nothing. It’s a scary world out there for a fungus without a...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 5, 2012 | Recent Research
The world of science is abuzz with the news! CERN have discovered a new particle, and it looks like the elusive Higgs boson. That large hadron collider has really come in handy! It was announced today at CERN as a ‘curtain raiser’ for the International...
