The Labrigger audience has been steadily growing since it launched. Many, many more people visit Labrigger in a month than attend the Society for Neuroscience meeting (web traffic aficionados, that’s unique visitors, humans not robots, and…
The US Government is in shutdown right now. What does that mean for researchers funded by the NIH and NSF?
This notice explains what to expect with respect to the NIH. If that link…
You might recognize the Bruker brand from their small animal MRI machines. It’s a decently large company (market cap $3.4B).
They just bought Prairie Technologies, the Madison, WI-based manufacturer of multiphoton microscopes ($11M in 2012…
The magazine Popular Science dates back to 1872. It’s older than Nature (1879), Science (1880), and American Scientist (1913). It was originally an academic journal, before it split into two parts, with the academic portion eventually being absorbed into Science. It’s high quality…
This is perhaps the most exhilarating patent I’ve ever read:
Search for patent 4455333 at this link.
Here’s a excerpt:
When the cookie dough enters the oven, the water in the dough is saturated with sugar and appears to be evenly distributed throughout the dough. As the water temperature…
Apparently kittens can see an optimized Farser-Wilcox optical illusion.
Fraser and Wilcox 1979 (pdf)
Rotating Snakes (pdf)
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