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 | Dec 2, 2010 | Jibber Jabber, Science Art
Get a pair of double helix earrings or a neuron necklace. Each piece began as a sketch, then was modeled digitally, and finally cut with a laser beam. These gorgeous creations are courtesy of Morphologica, a Sydney-based scientist completing a PhD in neuroscience....
by Captain Skellett | Oct 29, 2010 | Recent Research
Imagine being able to control a computer with your mind! No longer would we be tied down to keyboards, mice and touchscreens! We need NEVER put down our coffee to work! It’s not fantasy, that just happened. Twelve subjects sat in front of a computer and looked...
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...
