Romeo's Juliet is not actually a little girl. Credit: Gordon, used via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 |
- A new gravitational wave detector is almost ready to join the search by Emily Conover for Science News.
- Particle physics may have reached the end of the line by Sabine Hossenfelder for Backreaction.
- Scientists are building a quantum computer that "acts like a brain" by John Christian for futurism.com.
- The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces by Jordana Cepelewicz for Quanta Magazine.
- Men React to Repeated Painful Experiences Differently than Women Do by Diana M. Kwon for The Scientist.
- A Surprising New Way To Avoid Choking Under Pressure – Imagine You Have The Prize And Are Performing To Keep It by Christian Jarrett for British Psychological Society Research Digest.
- Podcast of the week: Creative Differences: The Benefits Of Reaching Out To People Unlike Ourselves by Jennifer Schmidt, Parth Shah, Shanka Vedantam, Tara Boyle, Maggie Penman and Max Nesterak for NPR Hidden Brain.
- Nature Shapes Faithful and Unfaithful Brains by Sarah Jane Alger for The Scorpion and the Frog.
- Romeo finally found his Juliet, and an endangered frog has new prospects for survival by Mongabay.com.
- Why I don’t bite everyone that stresses me out: The cost-benefit analysis of predators by Michelle Jewell for Southern Fried Science.
- After a year of no babies, three right whale calves spotted off U.S. coast by Mongabay.com.
- Don’t Kiss Your Pet Hedgehogs, C.D.C. Warns by Julia Jacobs for The New York Times.
- Inside Earth, Microbes Approach Immortality by Jennifer Frazer for Scientific American.
- A New Infectious Mechanism for Alzheimer’s? by Derek Lowe at In The Pipeline
- Is This Tiny Copepod the Key to Sustainably Producing Omega-3s? by Erica Cirino for Hakai Magazine.
- Coffee crisis? 60% of wild species could go extinct, some within decades by Carol Cruzan Morton for Science.
- Study: Keep craft beer cool and drink in three months for best flavor by Jennifer Oullette for Ars Technica.
- Examining Food Cravings In Women During Their Menstrual Cycle by Sridevi Krishnan for Science Trends.
- Pesticides on Our Plates: Is Our Food Safe to Eat? by Monica Reinagel for Scientific American.
- Finding eco-friendly alternatives to cotton — in the forest by Nancy Bazilchuk for Science Nordic.
- How to Reduce Your Plastic Use by Beni Kolenovic for InnoTechToday.
- Earth’s Essential Elements for Life Probably Came from Another Planet at Sci-News.com.
- The Periodic Table by Alex Bolano for Science Trends.
- Building Teamwork and Perseverance in Early Elementary Students with Breakouts by Katrina Schwartz for KQED News.
- One more reason to remove letters of recommendation when evaluating candidates for jobs or scholarships by Andrew Gelman for Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science.
- The landscape of MRSA in America's largest healthcare system: Acquisition carries a 1-4% chance of infection in the following year! by Daniel Morgan for Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention.
- Reversing an MD5 hash by John D. Cook at John D. Cook Consulting