The subject of Mars is a popular one. Not only in science fiction but, of course, in real life, too. Curiosity’s presence on the red planet at the moment - you can look at interactive panoramas of Mars! - has been generating a great deal of international media interest, and there has been talk of […]
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Introducing a new blog: sleep on it
Having realised that we’re sufficiently fascinating to be the cause of sleep deprivation in some of our readers, we thought we’d try to help. And so, we’d like (very happily) to introduce Karyn O’Keeffe, who will be blogging about all things sleep-related on sleep on it. Karyn’s been working in the field of sleep for […]
Interesting bits: starving to stay awake, and an LCA on Li-Ion
I have seen many interesting sciencey things this week. Which makes sense, given that a large part of my job is to track new research. Sadly, and for the sake of brevity, I’ve had to pick but two for this post. Starving to stay awake? Another interesting factoid related to, well, taking in less calories […]