Copyright Daniela Hartmann
Each week, we read what's going on the world of science and bring three of the wildest findings straight to you. Scroll through for the latest:
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Your weekly science and health reads
A fertility doctor that decided to use his own sperm to help his patients have kids.Call me cozy. By Lena Dunham in The New York Times.
Sometimes coziness isn’t a luxury, but a necessity to cope with chronic pain.We aren’t really in control so why worry about neurointerventions? By Hazem Zohny in Aeon.
Just a friendly reminder that we have very little control of anything, let alone our brains.'Super-smeller' helps develop swab test for Parkinson's disease. By Ian Sample in The Guardian.
“Most people cannot detect the scent of Parkinson’s, but some who have a heightened sense of smell report a distinctive, musky odor on patients.” The super smeller in this story smelled the Parkinson’s in her husband 12 years before his diagnosis.The only metric of success that really matters is the one we ignore. By Jenny Anderson in Quartz.
We’re all so focused on improving ourselves and our careers—what if those things will never offer us happiness?Sign up for our newsletter to get the best of Tonic and This Week in Science delivered to your inbox.