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Lantern Festival 2021: How to celebrate Lantern Festival in a traditional way (Video)
The Lantern Festival, also known as the Yuan Xiao Festival, welcomes the lunar year’s first full moon. It’s a dazzling holiday that wraps up Chinese New Year’s annual Spring Festival with a night of sparkling lights.
Lantern Festival 2021 is February 26, 2021. It takes...
Biology: Retroviruses are re-writing the koala genome and causing cancer
Photo: Koala in the Wild
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Credit Image: A. Gillett
The koala retrovirus (KoRV) is a virus which, like other retroviruses such...
Pfizer vaccine ‘dramatically reduces’ Covid transmission risk after one dose (Study)
New data from Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge suggests that a single dose of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine can reduce by four-fold the number of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections. This implies that the vaccine could significantly reduce the risk of transmission of the virus from people...
Full Moon in February 2021: How to see the next full moon in the sky this weekend
By now, you're probably sick of the snow, but there's one last cosmic event commemorating the winter season before we gear up for the Spring Equinox.
On Saturday, February's full moon, or the Snow Moon, will shine at its brightest in the night sky, and...
Biology: A-maze-ing pheasants have two ways of navigating
Photo: A maze used in the study (here with all doors/walls open).
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Credit Image: Pip Laker
Pheasants fall into two groups...
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Offbeat: Universal features of music around the world —
Is music really a "universal language"? Two articles in the most recent issue of Science support the idea that music all around the globe shares important commonalities, despite many differences. Researchers led by Samuel Mehr at Harvard University have undertaken a large-scale analysis...
Offbeat: The difference between an expert’s brain and a novice’s —
When mice learn to do a new task, their brain activities change over time as they advance from 'novice' to 'expert.' The changes are reflected in the wiring of cell circuits and activities of neurons.
Using a two-photon imaging microscope and a wealth of...
Offbeat: Data-driven definition of unhealthy yet pervasive ‘hyper-palatable’ foods —
A popular U.S. brand of potato chips once promoted itself with the slogan, "betcha can't eat just one!"
Maybe that's because potato chips, like so many foods in the American diet, can pack a mix of ingredients apt to light up people's brain-reward neural...
