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Platinum jewelry. Platinum card. Platinum drug?
Platinum is symbol of prestige, wealth and success, and the basis of one of the most successful anticancer drugs of the last 50 years. Not bad for a metal that at one point was thought to be a nuisance.
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Spare a moment for the humble fly and his aerobatic feats
When you swat a fly, you're swatting a biological machine that in many respects makes the electromechanical machines (read: robots) that we make look less than crude by comparison. Don't take my word...
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Like coffee and chocolate? Thank the alkaloids.
Coffee, chocolate, morphine and cocaine all have one thing in common. Their active ingredients -- the things that makes them work as they do -- are all parts of a chemical family called the alkaloids.
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Science small plate (March 15, 2013)
The Vatican blows smoke, you can't burn DNA, bringing extinct animals back from the dead, Martian life and more.
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Salt is dead. Long live salt.
Too much salt kills. But we need salt to survive. It's all about balance.
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Science small plate (March 22, 2013)
Watch a fish think, the science of swarms, tracking cicadas, resurrection's all the rage, and more.
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You have extra parts: Organs you can live without
You'd be surprised by what you can fairly easily live without.
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Science small plate (March 29, 2013)
Don't drink the Visine, mind the backyard chickens and their bacteria, the physics of moshing, and more.
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What’s gluten doing in there? (In the wheat plant, that is.)
When I started wondering what gluten does in wheat, imagine my surprise when I found out that actually, there isn't any.
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Science small plate (April 6, 2013)
Ducks fathering chickens, breathprints, human-rat mind melds and more.
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Bad news for the short and small
Short of stature and small of member, that is. Yes, you read that right.
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Science small plate (April 12, 2013)
Transparent brains, plants that trap bedbugs, the distance to Mars, and more.
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Magnets and nanoparticles: Can we fish bacteria out of the blood of sepsis...
On Vector today I published a post about a research team that's trying to filter the blood of patients with sepsis using a combination of magnets, nanoparticles, and a molecule that acts like a hook...
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Shut up, brain!
It's been a long day, and you're dog tired. You've pulled up the covers, closed the book, put your glasses in the nightstand, and turned off the light. And that's when your brain kicks in.
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It’s not baby’s first tanning bed
It's a Bili-Hut, a portable pop-up tent for jaundiced babies, and it could save millions of lives in developing countries.
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Science small plate (April 19, 2013)
Fishy genomes, stop kissing your dog, why beer makes you happy and more.
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Science small plate (April 26, 2013)
DNA's birthday, asteroids older than Earth, rat tickling and more.
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Long live red wine. What about those who drink it? Jury’s still out.
The cultured would have us believe that with warming temperatures we should switch from white wine to red. Balderdash, I say. Because red wine is where the good stuff is. And by good stuff, I mean...
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Science small plate (May 3, 2013)
Sharks take sibling rivalry to a new level, Russian geckos in space, better to know a cancer's genes than where it comes from, and more.
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