Acidifying Oceans Could Get Help from Kelp

Could interferon help treat Ebola?

Mitochondria help dynamins get a grip

T he dynamin-like GTPases spur mitochondria to break up. Two papers (1, 2) reveal new details about the molecular platforms that position these mitochondria-splitting proteins on the organelles. In yeast, the dynamin-like GTPase Dnm1 dismembers mitochondria by settling on the outer surface of the mitochondrial membrane and polymerizing into spirals that cleave the organelle (3). Two other prote...

Cheap Technology Like Transcrinal Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Could Help in Stroke Rehabilitation in South Asia

Hydrogen from Stormy Oceans

Extinction of megafauna: How could the research get so wrong?

The published evidence for the human-mediated extinction of megafauna is examined and is found to be unsubstantiated. It is shown that the claimed evidence is not based on the data describing the growth of human population but on invented data describing the growth of a non-existent, phantom genus we could call Phasmapithecus. Furthermore, it is also shown that contrary to the published claim e...