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Consciousness In The Brain
You see, but you do not observe… A Scandal in Bohemia, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle Can neuroscience provide an explanation as to how the brain enables us to consciously...
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Scientists discover bees that can reverse brain aging
By Maria Panagiotidi Scientists at Arizona State University have discovered that older honey bees can reverse brain aging when they take on nest responsibilities typically handled by much younger bees....
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Particle Consistent with the Higgs Boson Discovered at the LHC
By Stephen Sadler On Wednesday, in a seminar watched live on the Internet all around the world, scientists from the two main detectors at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva announced the...
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A New Moon Has Been Discovered Orbiting Pluto
By Maria Panagiotidi A fifth moon was discovered orbiting Pluto by a team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble space Telescope. The icy dwarf planet Pluto has four other known moons, the largest being...
View ArticleScience in British Sign Language – Summer Lecture
Science Brainwaves is proud to announce the details of our first summer lecture: Science in British Sign Language We are delighted to welcome Brainy and Brawny, aka Dr Audrey Cameron and Gary Quinn,...
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How delusions occur, and why they may be widespread!
Why do many people believe that Crop Circles are created by alien life forms? It is a common occurrence to come across people who believe things that seem extraordinary, and who maintain that belief...
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Food for the brain: How diet affects mental health
Is a diet of junk food bad for your mental health? In a recent article published in the Guardian (originally available on his personal website) George Monbiot looked at recent scientific evidence...
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Neuroscientists Make Declaration On Animal Consciousness
Scientists have officially acknowledged that birds have consciousness, and can experience emotions. On 7/7/2012 a group of prominent neuroscientists signed a declaration supporting the view that...
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Spooky goings on in Psychology!
Given that it is Halloween, it seems only right to discuss some recent psychology experiments relating to potential paranormal phenomenon! Can ‘psychic’ abilities be demonstrated during controlled...
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Life of a pathogen: pump some iron!
Has somebody set up a miniature weightlifting gym for microbes? Not yet, but just like you and I bacteria need iron to stay alive. However, unlike us they don’t get iron as a supplement in their...
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Chocolate Smarties
On Friday 23rd November, ‘Science Brainwaves’ hosted an evening learning the science behind one of the nations favourite treats – Chocolate! This sell-out evening allowed 130 guests to be educated by...
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A matter of inheritance
Image courtesy of ‘Digital Dreams’ / FreeDigitalPhotos.net The age-old ‘nature-nurture’ debate revolves around understanding to what extent various traits within a population are determined by...
View ArticleWhy refrigerated chocolate tastes better
The difference of opinion when it comes to whether chocolate tastes better out of the fridge or not has caused many a discussion between me and my peers, and has almost torn friendships apart (not...
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Heart attacks and hard ons
Would you believe me if I told you that the enzyme that can prevent heart attacks is almost identical to the enzyme that gives men erections? So much so, that in 1985 during clinical trials for a drug...
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Ultra-Ever Dry
I was recently offered a place at the Molecular Scale Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training based between Sheffield and Leeds universities, which I was more than happy to accept. Given that I will...
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Discreet Meat Deceit
As you’re probably aware, horse meat has been found in many of the UK’s cheaper ‘beef’ products. This led to an investigation which discovered that this is happening all over Europe, including Sweden,...
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Why being a masters student is a form of slavery
Obviously the title of this post is a vast overstatement, and this is probably one of the biggest first world problems out there, but sometimes it really does feel that way! Okay, slaves don’t get...
View ArticleWant to lie convincingly? Get practicing!
Lying, the deliberate attempt to mislead someone, is a processes that we all engage in at some time or another. Indeed research has found that the average person lies at least once a day, suggesting...
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Insights into the beginnings of microbiology
Over the holidays I rediscovered a book I picked up in an antique shop a year or so ago called “Milestones in Microbiology”. I had assumed it was going to be a standard history book with lots of dates...
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Biotech for all – taking science back to it’s roots?
This morning I came across a very interesting TED talk by Ellen Jorgensen entitled “Biohacking — you can do it, too” (http://on.ted.com/gaqM). The basic premise is to make biotech accessible to all, by...
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