Popular Science News | Young Birds getting Drunk on Berries

Popular Science News – no this is not a pre-Christmas story of young women getting intoxicated on a new fad drink. It’s about the feathered variety found reeling underneath Rowan trees after having eaten the fermented berries. This time it was blackbirds, in 1999 it was redwings falling from holly trees after eating fermented […]

Popular Science News | Make a Backup of Your Mind

Popular Science News – as ridiculous as it might sound, experiments are currently being tried in order to make a carbon copy of a person’s mind. Substrate Independent Mind (SIM) as it is called intends to produce copies of a person’s mind on a material other than a person’s brain. Initial experiments are on […]

Popular Science News | Spinal Cord Damage Recovery Possible

Popular Science News – it must have been a bit like the episode of Downton Abbey where a character recovers from a spinal injury despite every expectation that he wouldn’t. It now seems that with the help of a prompt from an electrical implant the spinal cord can be restarted. It even functions when […]