in-the-lab
Electronic Cigarettes Are Screwing with Your Lungs
Clearly anything that might possibly get people to stop smoking cigarettes is a good thing. I don't think anyone disputes this fact that doesn't work for Philip Morris. Though, I personally seem to come across electronic cigarettes -- oft touted as a...
The Smartphone of the Future Is You
"Cyborg" is a fluid term. It just means a biological something that's boosted by artificial enhancements of some kind, electronic or mechanical or robotic. So, the kid with the "3D printed exoskeleton":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/6/3d-printing...
We Need to Play For the Same Reason Puppies Do
Dogs don't have the kinds of aspirations children do. I don't think they dream of going to space or digging holes to China. But they do play, just like kids. Our children's games must have evolved to help set us up to practice skills we might need...
Smoking a Ton of Weed as a Teenager Probably Makes You a Dumb(er) Adult
Are you kind of an idiot? Did you own more than two named bongs as a teenager? Have you ever smoked weed out of an apple procured from a high school lunchroom? Well then, the _Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences_ has a "brand new study...
3D Printing Is Even Cooler When It's Molecular
We thought we'd seen everything come out the other end of a 3D printer — guns, <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/1...
Mouse on Mars Is Back with a Hypnotic and Sciencey New Video
"Mouse in Mars":http://www.mouseonmars.com/, the way-old German mutant IDM duo, has been quiet for almost six years now, finally showing up again this summer with a "new record":http://www.monkeytownrecords.com/releases/view/51/mouse-on-mars/monkeytown...
Bill Nye To Creationists: You're Anti-American and Hurting Your Children
Here's a recipe for video views: Take Bill Nye, famously "well-spoken defender of science":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/7/28/beautiful-bill-nye-patiently-explains-the-nature-of-science-to-fox-news, and have him tell creationists that they're hosing...
This Really Has Been the Hottest Year Ever of All Time (for Peppers and iPads Too)
Ever since CERN found the Higgs boson, they seem to just be showing off their giant science brains just for fun. A few weeks ago, the European megalab hosted American "Congress folk and Astronauts":http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57479585/gabrielle...
America's Books Are Less Moral, but Is America? Let's Hope Not
There's a new paper our now about a "pair of studies":http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2120724 that show a decrease in the frequency of "moral words" in the books of America, as represented by the Google Books archive. And it turns...
How to Go to the Bathroom on a Fake Asteroid: Talking to Aquarius, Earth's Last Sealab
In July, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it was killing its funding for the Aquarius Reef Base, which, located off the coast of Key Largo, Florida, is the only sea lab of its kind in the world. Even during a science...
New Study Accuses Antibiotics of Boosting Civilization's Fatness Problem
Antibiotics enable much of the lifestyle we've grown accustomed to on planet Earth. An infected wound or case of syphilis or any of the other great many sinister things caused by bad bacteria are no longer things that carry a very real possibility of...
Neurologist Oliver Sacks Says Tripping on LSD Has Helped Him Empathize With Patients
There's a reason psychonauts and other curious trip-seekers often experience such intensely profound, if not chemically-risky pleasures while rolling hard on hallucinogenic drugs. Suddenly you and the most beautiful people in the galaxy, who in turn...