PubPeer and Anonymity in Science
Earlier this week Times Higher Education (THE) published a very interesting piece called Should post-publication peer review be anonymous? It…
American Football's Year in Virtual Reality
You can’t learn kung-fu from downloading a program in “The Matrix” just yet. But this year, a growing number of…
Stonehenge Wasn't the First 'Second-Hand' Prehistoric Monument
I led the team of researchers that discovered that Stonehenge was most likely to have been originally built in Pembrokeshire,…
To Study OCD, Scientists Get Their (Rubber) Hands Dirty
The rubber hand illusion is a classic experiment that reveals how our brains build a sense of our bodies. For…
Antibiotics Are Powerless Against This New Superbug
Sooner or later, evolution was going to render antibiotics useless, and new evidence indicates we’re quickly being outflanked by infectious…
Tracking the Viruses of Yellowstone's Acidic Hot Springs
Viruses are the most common biological entities on Earth, numbering in the cool billion billion trillions. And while their dependency…
Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks at the Right Time
Break out the blanket and the lawn chair. This year’s Geminid meteor shower will be a gem. When the shower…
Flashback Friday: A scientifically proven method to quit smoking that works in your sleep!
What if quitting smoking were so easy you could do it in your sleep? Well, the scientists behind this study…
A Paradigm Shift for the Motor Cortex?
Many people will be familiar with this rather strange image: It’s a depiction of the motor homunculus, which is essentially…
A New Planet in the Solar System? Not So Fast
Astronomers working with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered what they claim could be another large planet on…