All Posts Dec 27 Memories are made of this 🎷🎶 – (Part 2) by adam phillips | Interviews Thomas McHugh from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science continues his discussion about memories, emotions, the brain, and life. Dec 26 Spacey, nerdy nights in Tokyo by kelly jackson | What's Up With Us Kelly, our new It Ain’t Magic contributor, writes about her nerdy nighttime experiences in Tokyo. Dec 16 Memories are made of this 🎶 🎷 – (Part 1) by adam phillips | Interviews Brain science ’round midnight episode 8: Thomas McHugh from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science discusses memories and the brain Nov 18 Hibernation-like state can protect kidneys during heart surgery by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Activating Q-neurons in the mouse brain led to a hibernation-like state that protected kidneys during heart surgery. Sep 14 Crying baby? Science says walk, then sit by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Recipe for success: Walk 5 min, sit 8 min, lay no-longer-crying baby down. Now you can relax. Sep 6 Cyborg cockroaches to the rescue! by masataka sasabe | Hot Off the Press The key to this remote-controllable cyborg cockroach is a solar-cell rechargeable battery and an ultrathin flexible backpack. Aug 25 Ethanol pretreated soil protects plants from drought by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Pretreating soil with ethanol protected plants, including wheat and rice, from the adverse effects of water deprivation. Aug 22 Marsupial heart regeneration ability given to mice by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Regeneration of mouse hearts 🐁 🫀🫀 after birth achieved by figuring out how it’s possible in opossums. Aug 19 How an herbal medicine protects against inflamed bowels by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press A Japanese herbal medicine promotes good bacteria and innate immune cells in the gut, which protects against intestinal inflammation. Jul 7 Robotic AI helps efficient growth of replacement organs by masataka sasabe | Hot Off the Press Humans team-up with a robotic AI to speed up experiments to find the best way to regrow damaged eye tissue from stem cells. Jun 20 Extra “eye” movements are the key to better self-driving cars by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press If self-driving cars make saccades like people, they might make fewer mistakes identifying important features of the road. May 26 Palaeospondylus: mystery of vertebrate evolution solved by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Micro-CT scans using synchrotron radiation X-rays reveal Palaeospondylus morphology, finally allowing its placement on the evolutionary tree. Apr 28 Xist knockout rescues miscarriages in mice by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Xist knockout rescues miscarriages in mice whose egg cells lack H3K27me3 epigenetic instructions. Apr 27 A new type of cell death discovered in fly guts by masataka sasabe | Hot Off the Press A completely unknown type of cell death called “erebosis” has been discovered in the guts of the common fruit fly. Apr 6 Diagnosing fetal heart disease benefits from explanatory AI by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Diagnosis accuracy improved when doctors used explanatory AI to help diagnose congenital heart disease from fetal ultrasound videos. Apr 5 Chaos theory provides hints for controlling the weather by jens wilkinson | Hot Off the Press Computer simulations were used to show that small adjustments to certain variables in the weather system could modify weather phenomena such as sudden downpours. Mar 29 Robotic exoskeleton learns to help people stand up by jens wilkinson | Hot Off the Press This new robotic exoskeleton uses machine learning to know when users want help standing up. Feb 25 Nanocarrier spray: better crops without genetic modification by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Gene expression, but not genomes, altered in plants and crops with a spray containing bioactive molecules tethered to nanocarrier peptides Page 1 of 1112345...10...»Last »
Dec 27 Memories are made of this 🎷🎶 – (Part 2) by adam phillips | Interviews Thomas McHugh from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science continues his discussion about memories, emotions, the brain, and life.
Dec 26 Spacey, nerdy nights in Tokyo by kelly jackson | What's Up With Us Kelly, our new It Ain’t Magic contributor, writes about her nerdy nighttime experiences in Tokyo.
Dec 16 Memories are made of this 🎶 🎷 – (Part 1) by adam phillips | Interviews Brain science ’round midnight episode 8: Thomas McHugh from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science discusses memories and the brain
Nov 18 Hibernation-like state can protect kidneys during heart surgery by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Activating Q-neurons in the mouse brain led to a hibernation-like state that protected kidneys during heart surgery.
Sep 14 Crying baby? Science says walk, then sit by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Recipe for success: Walk 5 min, sit 8 min, lay no-longer-crying baby down. Now you can relax.
Sep 6 Cyborg cockroaches to the rescue! by masataka sasabe | Hot Off the Press The key to this remote-controllable cyborg cockroach is a solar-cell rechargeable battery and an ultrathin flexible backpack.
Aug 25 Ethanol pretreated soil protects plants from drought by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Pretreating soil with ethanol protected plants, including wheat and rice, from the adverse effects of water deprivation.
Aug 22 Marsupial heart regeneration ability given to mice by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Regeneration of mouse hearts 🐁 🫀🫀 after birth achieved by figuring out how it’s possible in opossums.
Aug 19 How an herbal medicine protects against inflamed bowels by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press A Japanese herbal medicine promotes good bacteria and innate immune cells in the gut, which protects against intestinal inflammation.
Jul 7 Robotic AI helps efficient growth of replacement organs by masataka sasabe | Hot Off the Press Humans team-up with a robotic AI to speed up experiments to find the best way to regrow damaged eye tissue from stem cells.
Jun 20 Extra “eye” movements are the key to better self-driving cars by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press If self-driving cars make saccades like people, they might make fewer mistakes identifying important features of the road.
May 26 Palaeospondylus: mystery of vertebrate evolution solved by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Micro-CT scans using synchrotron radiation X-rays reveal Palaeospondylus morphology, finally allowing its placement on the evolutionary tree.
Apr 28 Xist knockout rescues miscarriages in mice by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Xist knockout rescues miscarriages in mice whose egg cells lack H3K27me3 epigenetic instructions.
Apr 27 A new type of cell death discovered in fly guts by masataka sasabe | Hot Off the Press A completely unknown type of cell death called “erebosis” has been discovered in the guts of the common fruit fly.
Apr 6 Diagnosing fetal heart disease benefits from explanatory AI by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Diagnosis accuracy improved when doctors used explanatory AI to help diagnose congenital heart disease from fetal ultrasound videos.
Apr 5 Chaos theory provides hints for controlling the weather by jens wilkinson | Hot Off the Press Computer simulations were used to show that small adjustments to certain variables in the weather system could modify weather phenomena such as sudden downpours.
Mar 29 Robotic exoskeleton learns to help people stand up by jens wilkinson | Hot Off the Press This new robotic exoskeleton uses machine learning to know when users want help standing up.
Feb 25 Nanocarrier spray: better crops without genetic modification by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press Gene expression, but not genomes, altered in plants and crops with a spray containing bioactive molecules tethered to nanocarrier peptides
