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This article was first published in mappingignorance.org Some weeks ago in Naukas.com I wrote about the wonderful latest video released by the team responsible for the Inner Life of a Cell which deals with the intricacies of cell trafficking in the inside of a neuron. Today I want to discuss an article recently published in…
I know it seems like forever since there was any news on this regard but not long ago in the german newspaper Die Zeit they referenced Science’s initiative to reward science’s best ways to illustrate science: The Visualization Challenge. Being able to conjugate meaningful science and beauty might seem challenging but the awarded show it’s…
Two interesting stories have reached my nose and I had to bring them to you because it smells like there’s something juicy here to discuss. Let’s get started. It’s probably too soon to speak about the smell of spring, specially given that here in Munich we are still forcing our way out of winter BUT…
Sometimes it can be hard to juggle the increasingly demanding tasks of a normal day: a hectic day at work, attending to a house, enjoying something of a social life…Getting to the end of the day without going crazy and/or feeling sick feels like an odisey in those stress dominated periods. Since I am myself…
Not that long ago I learned about a paper published by the lab of Björn Brems about the big fraud that impact factor in scientific publishing is when it comes to being an actual measure of how good science is. Not that it was news to many of us but it comes with a wealth…
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…
People say: You get used to everything. And it’s true that when far away you get used to eating at times you would have otherwise considered crazy, and even to eating stuff had we been asked beforehand we would have denied more than three times ever getting close to our mouths, but there are things…
There’s many ways to recognize a scientist and maybe surprisingly to some, the lab coat is not the most obvious, neither is the bad hair nor the distracted look, as the topic falsely assumes. In fact, the easier way to recognise them is that while having a beer -not necessarily the fourth one- they are…
Love is in the air…actually there is more cold and snow but don’t let that cool you down. Today we are talking about oxytocin. You know, that hormone they call the love hormone because it is secreted during coitus and it is partly responsible for those butterflies in your stomach at the beginning of 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…