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How can scientists see the intricate details inside cells far too small for regular light microscopes? A powerful technique called expansion microscopy is revolutionizing how researchers study tiny organisms from plankton to developing embryos. If you want to know more about how, check the full article in MappingIgnorance.org
Credit: Nature, 2023 Despite their importance in our daily lives, we do not give much importance to our hands or feet, and even less at how they came to be. Even if roughly known, the process of human limb development had never been observed at single cell level resolution. If you want to learn (and…
It is said that music can appease the beasts, and every parent in the world has heard of the –unproven– Mozart effect for producing smarter babies, however, what not everyone knows is that one of his compositions, the Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448, can actually decrease the epileptic activity in the…
The brain could be said to be an ubiquitous organ. So much so, that in the heart there is what is called the intracardiac nervous system. Now, a team of researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia has created a 3D image of this heart’s brain in rats. So far that was not possible because…
I know it seems like an absurd question to start with: can a foetus without egg und sperm even exist? If you want to know more, go check my new article at MappingIgnorance.org
How many times have we seen on TV a police line up where a witness needs to recognise whether one of those present was the one guilty? and how many times have we seen him doubt? How many versions of the same accident can there be? because how many people can say they have a…
The other day talking to some members of our Asociation of spanish scientists in Germany (CERFA) we came to topic of writing. It might seem a bit far fetched, that is, if you don’t know that science involves more than the work done on a bench, at a microscope or in front of one or…
Someday I was asked why someone’s most creative time was right before going to sleep. When asked, I remembered having read about the topic of when are the most creative moments in the day for some people. I also remembered that creativity gets potentiated the more our prefrontal cortex (a brain area related to conscious…
I have a confession to make. We scientists are NOT Gods. I know, I know, I know. Ecologists say we like to play gods and mess around with genes or modify the course of rivers or even get energy out of atoms…but seriously, NO. And truth is, it is a big problem. Why? You say….