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It might seem a more than gruesome recipe for many. More if we think that these were the ingredients of the headline for an article published in the Medical Daily to report on the findings of recent work appeared in the journal PNAS. As it usually happens, there was a lot of the two first…
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…
Well my dear friends, it is that time of the year. I am not talking about that annoying Christmas time where the only good thing is not having to work. No. I am refering to the Small World 2012 Microphotography Contest, the annual Nikon scientific photography contest, that just like every other year brings us…
Long time no see…Sorry I haven’t posted anything in english for quite a while but I have a perfect excuse: I was on holidays. In Paradise aka Cuba. While in there I had time to catch up with sleep, recharge my vitamin D reservoirs for the winter and taste a bit (only a bit 😉…
Today’s post started as many do. As a discussion over coffee. These things DO happen. At least among nerds… Anyhoo, who has not ever encountered that situation where someone really impressed with something they learnt at school cannot really understand the possibility that in biology, as in so many other things in life, things are…
Such a common question to break the ice among strangers can be really problematic when your job is actually doing science, and even more if you do it with animals. Because behind that exclamation: Neuroscience, how cool! comes the next question: but what exactly? So today I am going to try explain what I do…
Even cavemen were scientists. Thanks to their curiosity we managed to discover fire, to invent the wheel and develop all those tools that in time lead us to the fancy cars, computers and phones we use today. But today it might happen that we have to go back to playing with stones and sticks, at…
Even though in fairy tales -and in Hollywood movies- it seems love’s forever and monogamy is what’s natural, some time ago prairie voles showed us that in fact it depends, at least partly, of a variant in the vasopressin gene, this is a hormone that can act as a neuropeptide as well, and that way…