Stealing seeds. Digging earth…
Earlier this month, a federal court indicted a Chinese national for trying to steal GMO corn technology from DuPont, Monsanto, …
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Science. Publications. A lost cause…
Publishing is one of the most ballyhooed metrics of scientific careers, and every researcher hates to have a gap in …
Brain. Mind. The plagues of modern science…
An influential group of European neuroscientists is threatening to boycott the Human Brain Project (HBP), the hugely ambitious plan to …
Illusions…
Expanding and contracting circles, mutating colors, and false image matches dominated the 2014 Best Illusion of the Year Contest, held …
Turn off consciousness… So?
That’s what doctors at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., inadvertently discovered while evaluating a 54-year-old woman with epilepsy. …