by Captain Skellett | Feb 3, 2011 | Science Communication
Love chocolate? Tonight at Adelaide’s RiAus the spotlight is on gluttony and chocolate addictions. It’s sold out, but you can watch the livestream here from 6:00 Adelaide time and have your own chocolate tastings at home. Brendan Somerville from Haighs will talk...
by Captain Skellett | May 16, 2010 | Drugs, Recent Research
A recent study has found that mice are able to turn something normally found in mice brains into morphine. Morphine is a potent painkiller harvested from opium poppies. We can make it synthetically in the lab, but it’s cheaper to let plants do the hard work. If...
