Worth a Few Minutes of Your Time: “Why water is really, really weird | BBC Ideas”
“Why water is really, really weird | BBC Ideas”
Consciousness: how the brain chemical ‘dopamine’ plays a key role – new research
Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, University of Cambridge; Christelle Langley, University of Cambridge; Emmanuel A Stamatakis, University of Cambridge, and Lennart Spindler, University of Cambridge Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would after all be no science. But while we all know what it is like to be conscious…
How does smoking marijuana affect academic performance? Two researchers explain how it can alter more than just moods
Jason R. Kilmer, University of Washington and Christine M. Lee, University of Washington In a trend that coincided with the pandemic, marijuana use among college students in 2020 reached levels not seen since the 1980s. That’s according to the latest research from Monitoring the Future – an annual survey that looks at drug and…
What is mRNA? The messenger molecule that’s been in every living cell for billions of years is the key ingredient in some COVID-19 vaccines
Penny Riggs, Texas A&M University One surprising star of the coronavirus pandemic response has been the molecule called mRNA. It’s the key ingredient in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. But mRNA itself is not a new invention from the lab. It evolved billions of years ago and is naturally found in every cell…
A new force of nature? The inside story of fresh evidence from Cern that’s exciting physicists – podcast
Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, the inside story of how scientists working at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider found tantalising new evidence that could mean we have to rethink what we know about the universe. And an update on the situation for Rohingya refugees…