A book that criticizes alternative medicine to treat conditions that have names but no criteria is controversial - because it runs up against a supplement and alternative medicine enabled by governments that believe science can't be trusted
Intuitive processes may underlie decisions of those who help others while risking their own lives. Credit: AAresTT/ShutterstockBy Penny Orbell, The ConversationIf you noticed a person in grave danger would you act first and think later in order to save them? New research suggests people who put their own lives in danger to help others make the decision to do so without a second thought.
The extraordinary synod of bishops on family is meeting for two weeks at the Vatican. Credit: EPA/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Timothy Jones, La Trobe University
Lab scientists working with Ebola use respirators, while surgical masks are deemed adequate for nurses at the front line. Credit: EPA/Anne-Marie Sanderson/DOH By C Raina MacIntyre
Should academics be disciplined by their universities for things said over Twitter? Credit: Opensource.com/ Flickr, CC BY-SABy Janna Thompson, La Trobe UniversityAcademic freedom has been put in the spotlight with two universities recently coming down hard on academics for comments on social media.
Pulsars were discovered by a woman, Jocelyn Bell. Credit: WikimediaBy Hazel Hall, Edinburgh Napier University What was the greatest astronomical discovery of the 20th century? Some would say pulsars – highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars emitting beams of electromagnetic radiation. The scientific world was informed of these in a paper published by Nature in 1968.
It's Ada Lovelace day. Image credit: unknownBy Jan Bogg, University of LiverpoolThroughout the year there are special days that see newsagents fill with celebratory cards. Perhaps punched cards would be more appropriate for Ada Lovelace Day, which marks both the mathematical prowess of the woman dubbed the “first computer programmer” and the cultural barriers she faced – those women in science and technical fields still face today.
No, it's nothing to do with a reptilian existential crisis – just a name game. Credit: melanie cook/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SABy Dustin WelbourneYou have likely been to a zoo at some point and visited their reptile house. A building where the climate control dial is stuck on the “wet sauna” setting, and filled with maniacal children competing to be the first to press their ice cream covered face and hands on every available piece of clean glass.
Bacteria under attack by a flock of bacteriophages. Credit: Graham Beards/Wikimedia CommonsBy Luc Henry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
We are only beginning to see what augmented reality can do. Credit: Flickr/Karlis Dambra, CC BYBy Nick Kelly, University of Southern Queensland
Credit: Wing-Chi Poon, CC BY-SABy Sana Suri, University of OxfordThe 2014 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded to three neuroscientists for their pioneering work on the brain’s “inner GPS system”. Over the course of four decades, they revealed that a small part in the brain called the hippocampus stores a map of animals' surroundings and helps them navigate.
Very little has been published on VivaGel in peer-reviewed literature. Credit: Morgan/Flickr, CC BYBy Bridget Haire
