Does a serving of science or some fascinating nature facts get your synapses firing? Guest: Edith Widder, marine biologist Highlights: In the dark regions of the world's oceans, strange, wonderful creatures make spectacular light displays called bioluminescence, which Widder has spent her career studying. Guest: Nunia Thomas-Moko, herpetologist and conservationist Highlights: Thomas-Moko is Fiji's leading expert in rare frogs and …
Tennessee Tech University is defending its hiring of a publisher who has managed and written for "pink slime" news websites bankrolled by conservative political action committees and accused of "pay-for-play" journalism. Raw Story exclusively reported Thursday that Tennessee Tech had hired Kyle Barnett to teach journalism classes during the school's spring 2024 semester. Barnett, who is publicly cited as a …
Forget its exciting plot involving secret government experiments gone wrong, dangerous creatures from another dimension, and the group dynamics of a bunch of hormonal teenagers all discovering themselves and each other while fighting terrifying things that are, well, quite strange — is Stranger Things actually a show about making science cool? In an interview with NPR, physicist Brian Greene, author …
Slime mold memory Published in PNAS How does the slime mold Physarum polycephalum, with no nervous system, save memories? By studying fruit flies, researchers have now found that a family of proteins called OSCA/TMEM63 plays an important role in sensing particle sizes in food. These proteins are also found in humans and researchers say that the new findings could help …
