Neurologica
‘Science-based farming optimized for reduced environmental impact’: What’s behind the hydroponic farming boom — and attempts to deny its sustainability advantages?
Hydroponic farming allows for vertical farming, because it is not dependent on the soil. This allows for greater plant yield ...
Misinformation trifecta: How disinformation spreaders weaponize science
Recently it has become more apparent to me that often there is a common strategy to weaponizing misinformation. It’s likely ...
It may sound fantastical, but some forms of brain cancer may be treatable with magnets
I look at any therapeutic claims about magnets with a huge does of skepticism. Generally I assume it is a ...
How dogs and humans developed our symbiotic relationship
Dogs show an incredible ability to understand their human companions, even without extensive training. The question is – how much ...
How does CRISPR’s ‘on-off switch’ work? How will it revolutionize genetic research and the development of therapies?
[R]esearchers have published perhaps the greatest advance since 2013 – a way to use CRISPR as an on-off switch for ...
Cavendish banana could ‘disappear’ in the 2020s. Can CRISPR gene editing save it from a deadly fungus?
[T]hat the Cavendish banana will disappear sometime in the 2020’s is extremely likely. It is being threatened by a fungus ...
A video claiming to show dangerous COVID vaccine side-effects has gone viral – but scientists are skeptical
[W]e are now living in a post-social media world. Information, even medical or scientific information, may get to the public ...
Why the COVID death rate is dropping even as case numbers soar
One recent study looking at the case fatality rate in the New York region from March to August found that the ...
‘Spectacularly unimpressive’: Neural network AI asked to judge human personalities through photos
[If] personality traits have a significant genetic contribution (which seems clear) then we can ask – to what extent do ...
Are we getting closer to understanding how our brains make memories?
How do memories work? That has been a burning question for over a century, since Richard Semon introduced the term ...
Viewpoint: YouTube, Facebook and Google should do more to stop spread of dangerous cancer quackery
Many outlets are covering the story of Mari Lopez, a YouTuber who claimed, along with her niece, Liz Johnson, that ...
Replacing the polygraph: Brain imaging could give us a reliable lie detector
It’s fairly common knowledge at this point that the polygraph test for detecting who is lying is not reliable enough ...
Viewpoint: ‘Indigenous ways of knowing’ and the rejection of science
Science and the enlightenment are under assault from many directions, and in many incarnations, but they all tend to boil ...
