The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released a new report today warning that consumption of the ‘super-food’ kale over a period of time can lead consumers to have heightened levels of arrogance. The study was conducted in several cafes in... Read More ›
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Okay so, we all know how the Earth ends, right? In six billion years or so, the Sun swells up into a red giant, and the Earth gets melted. Pretty straightforward. But it turns out that /life/ on Earth will end long before that. There are reasons to think that the biosphere will collapse about […]
Billions of miles away at the edge of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has gone mad and has begun to die. Let’s start with the “billions of miles”. Voyager 1 was launched in early September 1977. Jimmy Carter was a hopeful new President. Yugoslavia and the USSR were going concerns, as were American Motors, Pan […]
Australian health officials are reportedly set to ban a childhood favourite, fairy bread, in schools and day care centres and replace it with mung beans. The move is designed to get children away from sugar and used to a life that... Read More ›
An interesting paper: researchers inserted a gene for photosynthesis* into ordinary brewer’s yeast. It worked! The yeast began to photosynthesize, tapping energy from the sun. I’m not generally alarmist about this sort of thing. But this is… maybe very slightly alarming. Why? 1) Baker’s yeast is a single-celled fungus. A fungus, like a mushroom. You […]
Scientists are abandoning Elon Musk's Twitter amid a "mass extinction event" on the social media network, says Philipp Markolin.
With Australia facing potentially catastrophic bushfires this summer like the 2019–2020 season, one of its favorite animals, the koala, is under threat on a number of other fronts as well.
Scientists have released the results of a long range study that has found that the first work week of the year is in fact the longest, no matter if you start the week on a Monday or a Thursday. ”This... Read More ›
I mentioned that parasite biology was one of my interests. It didn’t used to be. When the children were smaller, we had bedtime rituals. The two oldest shared a room, so they would both get something at bedtime. Perhaps it would be a chapter from a book (Charlotte’s Web was a big hit, as was […]
Kit Yates argues that the former Prime Minister's lack of scientific training was not the real problem