New Year’s resolution – better teeth?
We have 700 different species of bacteria swarming in our mouths, but only one species causes most of our tooth decay. Another dozen harm…
It is unromantic if you sweat like a horse or my brother
Over the last ten years, increasing evidence has mounted for why mammals choose, keep, and cheat on their mates. MHC, or Major Histocompatibility, is…
Public safety
I was recently in Sendai, Japan, known most recently as the epicenter of the 2011 Sendai earthquake and devastating tsunami that washed away or…
Stem cells
Recently, a Japanese group made an artificial liver from stem cells. Sooner or later we will be able to routinely personalize new body parts…
Amazing Minecraft map of the UK
Minecraft is a mesmerizing videogame that can be used like an infinitely large digital sandbox. A UK intern, Joseph Braybrook, spent the summer at…
Debate: Is Minecraft educational?
Check out any group of teens or tweens nowadays and you will find the culture vultures among them with a mobile device in…
Tooth Bacteria
We have 700 different species of bacteria swarming in our mouths, but only one species causes most of our tooth decay. Another dozen harm…
Cyber Attacks. What ScienCentral has in common with The New York Times
The New York Times web site went down two days ago. Hackers hijacked the domain name nytimes.com and redirected users to a site that…
When the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing
You may have heard about a study saying women’s hands have more types of bacteria than guys. But, as you’ll see in this ScienCentral…
Fictional scientists on TV
Recently I started binge watching a couple of TV series I somehow never got around to seeing. Star Trek Voyager and Breaking Bad. The…