Sunday SciKu | Humming Along
I almost forgot to share this week’s sciku! It was inspired by researchers at Stanford and TU/e who have been studying how hummingbirds hum. If you’ve spent any time watching hummingbirds, you might...
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Sunday SciKu | Bittersweet
cr: Andrew Johnson via Unsplash In a study out of Yale this week, researchers explored the neurological pathways governing a fly’s choice in what to eat—is it the taste or the calories they’re after?...
View ArticleSunday SciKu | King Tides
Who knew that the moon’s orbit wobbled on an 18.6-year cycle? Well, actually, we’ve known about this since 1728—and Bronze Age peoples knew about it thousands of years ago, and tracked it in their...
View ArticleSunday SciKu | Pleasure Seeking
Honestly, I can’t quite wrap my head around this week’s sciku article. The role of dopamine in our external rewards system has been studied extensively, but we also have regular passive spikes of the...
View ArticleSunday Sciku | Seedy Places
Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered what amounts to a reflexive negativity bias in our sense of smell, showing that bad smells are processed rapidly and unconsciously....
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