Fotografar o buraco negro no centro da Via Láctea

De forma indirecta vai ser tentado:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/26/black-hole-telescope-big-as-earth-event-horizon-project-sagittarius-a

Estudo sobre Orgasmos

Estudo sobre orgasmos para todos os gostos. As estatísticas e os possíveis motivos:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/23/golden-trio-of-moves-boosts-chances-of-female-orgasm-say-researchers

Fractais e Inkblots...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4225270/FRACTALS-key-images-Rorschach-inkblots.html

Citando:
"From bats to jack-o-lanterns, Rorschach’s inkblots brought out a vast array of image associations during their use, with up to 300 different images recorded for each of the 10 blots. The top image shows Rorschach's inkblot, while the bottom shows it with the fractal pattern removed"

Ratos à prova de coca?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mice-genetically-modified-cocaine-drug-addiction-research-lab-university-british-columbia-a7577356.html

Citando:

“That plasticity allows for the pruning of some neural pathways and the formation of others, enabling the brain to adapt and to learn.

“Ideally, we would need to find a molecule that blocks formation of a memory of a drug-induced high, while not interfering with the ability to remember important things.”

Her colleague, graduate student Andrea Globa, added: “Through genetic engineering, we hard-wired in place the synapses in the reward circuits of these mice.

“By preventing the synapses from strengthening, we prevented the mutant mice from ‘learning’ the memory of cocaine, and thus prevented them from becoming addicted.”

Poluição do fundo do mar estudada (e perdura por décadas aparentemente)

(os estudos tipicamente analisam até 2000m, este não):
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-016-0051

Citando:

• "POPs were released into the environment through industrial accidents and discharges, leakage from landfills, or incomplete incineration 7 . Two key POPs are polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs, used as dielectric fluid) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs, used as flame retardants). From the 1930s to when PCB production ceased in the 1970s, the total global production was ~1.3 million tonnes 8 . Approximately 65% is thought to be contained in landfills or still within electrical equipment, with the other 35% residing in coastal sediments and open oceans 9 . These pollutants are invulnerable to natural degradation 10 and so persist in the environment for decades. Moreover they can spread great distances, including to seemingly isolated environments, such as polar regions and the open ocean 3 .

Pollutants entering the deep sea are deposited in sediments and can readily accumulate in the food chain 11 . Studies on deep-sea organisms have reported higher concentrations than in nearby surface-water species 11,12 . However, although these studies are described as ‘deep sea’, they rarely extend beyond the continental shelf (<2,000 m), so contamination at greater distances from shore and at extreme depths is hitherto unknown."

Nova supernova detectada muito cedo...

O que permite recolher mais dados sobre o evento:
http://www.space.com/35689-supernova-baby-discovery-star-explosions.html

O que acontece quando aprendemos a tocar piano?

https://www.publico.pt/2017/02/11/ciencia/noticia/como-e-que-os-neuronios-se-organizam-quando-aprendemos-a-tocar-piano-1761480#

Proteínas em cabelos podem ser usadas em investigações forenses

Num futuro próximo. As proteínas degradam-se menos que o ADN com o tempo:
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/176792/20160908/when-dna-fails-a-single-strand-of-hair-may-save-the-day.htm
Citando:
"A breakthrough study has established that proteins found in human hair can work like fingerprints in the arena of crime investigation. This is because hair protein is unique to each individual and is more effective than traditional DNA profiling used in forensic analysis of human remains.
The new study beats the limitations posed by the conventional DNA profiling used by forensic scientists. It asserts that proteins are more stable and can offer accurate identification of human remains.
Details of the protein-centric hair analysis technique were published in PLOS ONE. According to lead author Brad Hart, a forensic scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the protein analysis will be a "game changer""

CVs criativos?

12 sítios aqui:
https://www.economias.pt/curriculos-criativos-online/

Estados mais felizes e ricos dos EUA

Interessante para se ver como está classificada a felicidade neste estudo americano:
http://time.com/4655836/health-happiness-well-being-states/?xid=newsletter-brief

Os números (da quantidade) do sexo no RU

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2789259/heres-how-often-the-average-british-person-has-sex-and-the-figure-may-shock-you/

Mudar o mundo ensinando?

http://hughculver.com/change-world-teaching/

RESOURCE: Notícias sobre espaço

Uma série de notícias sobre ciência / espaço, cobertura muito completa:
http://zap.aeiou.pt/tag/astronomia

O nosso antepassado comum?

Tanta coisa e afinal o nosso antepassado comum media menos de 1mm e era um emoticon:
http://www.history.com/news/youll-never-guess-what-our-oldest-known-ancestor-looked-like
Citando:
"Meet Saccorhytus coronaries, the species that scientists in a new study believe is the earliest known step on the evolutionary path that led to fish and—eventually—to humans.

An international team of scientists uncovered the microfossils of the speck-size creature they are calling Saccorhytus coronaries in Shaanxi Province, central China. According to their findings, published this week in the journal Nature, Saccorhytus lived 540 million years ago, during the early Cambrian period, when a shallow ocean would have covered the region where it was found. At that advanced age, it is believed to be the oldest known member of a category of animals known as “deuterostomes,” which are common ancestors to a wide range of other species, from starfish, sea urchins and acorn worms to the large group classified as vertebrates (backboned animals)."