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Three neat article appearing on the ScienceDaily website from yesterday and today. The first is about how the brain prevents verbal errors.

From the article:

"The researchers showed that the brain responds to such faulty utterances with a specific electrophysiological signal. It was already known that this wave occurs when making behavioural errors, such as pressing a wrong button by accident. This wave, called Error-Related Negativity, is informally known as the 'Oh-shit' wave. The brain regi… Continue

This headline has been splashed across all major media outlets as of yesterday morning when it was announced the popular speculative fiction author lost his battle to cancer.

From NPR:

"The master of the "techno thriller," Michael Crichton, has died at the age of 66. He was battling cancer. Crichton was best known for scary stories of science gone wrong in popular books like The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park."

They include a recent interview with the author before he died, remembering an… Continue

A few weeks ago, I posted about how a team of researchers found a new function for junk DNA in en… Continue

Earlier this year, I read a great… Continue

Scientific American has a number of great ghoulish stories out this week including:

Taking Wing: Uncovering the Evolutionary Origins of Bats

"Survey the sky at twilight on a summer’s eve, and you just might glimpse one of evolution’s most spectacular success stories: bats. With representatives on every continent except Antarctica, they are extrao… Continue