A new research led by UCL and the University of Milan finds a molecule important in blood vessel formation and brain wiring is also essential for the onset of puberty. From scientific point of view, growing up means simply becoming capable of reproduction. While this by far does not require…
Can we clone dinosaurs? Can we revive the long gone beasts and put them in theme parks? Have the time of “Jurassic world” arrived? A Nature letters publication called “Embryology of Early Jurassic dinosaur from China with evidence of preserved organic remains” told an exciting story about dinosaur embryology.…
Smartphones are becoming smarter by the day! Nowadays, we can use smartphone technology for so much more than just staying in touch – social activities, navigation, planning, computing, programming, analysis of data, and now – data collection too! In March (2015) a group of scientists from Boston published a paper …
Is Homo sapiens the higher species? Is complexity always superior? Why are ants better society that humans? A group of researchers published in Physical Review Letters an article on trafficking in ant trails, comparing it to human highways based on data collected from real ant files. They describe the velocity…
Not long ago an article was published in The Wall Street Journal on recent attempts against ageing or rather – diseases related to ageing. Many diseases are developing during the later stages of our lives as a result or a cause for the ageing processes taking place in our bodies.…
Remember in the movie “Batman begins” the super cool memory shape cape he had? If you don’t remember that, then may be you should revise the movie, but just to give you a clue – here’s a YouTube link to the scene. Turns out memory fabrics have been around for…
Some research I would love to be part of, some – not so much. You might find some of these funny, but they were all dead serious about their research when they were conducting and publishing it: 1. “Fat destabilization and melt-down of ice creams with increased protein content” by…
Bulgarian science might be on the slower end of productivity at the moment, and it is so for objective, although not excusable reasons. But it has not always been so. In the 20th century many bulgarian scientists were on the top of their game and since today is one of …
Scientists can be very full of themselves (or rather of their own research topic) creatures. I consider myself a scientist (among other things). So I suppose I need to live up to the expectations?! Hence, my first attempt to make this blog live a life, will be by introducing my…
Hello, RealWorld, and goodbye petri dishes and flasks! No! It’s not that – I’ll hang around on the doorstep – one eye on the science, one ear on the news about it. Yes! There are one too many science blogs! So why not have two too many? I say “yes”…