The death of the calorie: how the end-all of food units is outdated in pretty much any possible wayOur understanding of modern food is mostly based on a 1890 study which enshrined a relatively unknown unit – the calorie – as the best way to count...

Why Pavlov actually won the Nobel Prize – while teaching music to dogsBelow is the edito from the latest edition of Nautilus, titled Variables, a brilliant online journal on all things science. It relates the experiments of Ivan Pavlov, the famous Russian...

The enigmatic brain drawings of neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (via Brain Pickings)