Bed rest triumph

A glowing press release brings news of the end of the WISE (Women International Space Simulation for Exploration) bed-rest experiment: The volunteers in question are twelve women, drawn from seven European countries. Since March they have been confined to bed at the MEDES (French Institute of Space Medicine and Physiology) space clinic in Toulouse, in […]

Vino: describe it OR remember it

When novices talk about this wine or that, the more they talk, the more they’re talking baloney. An experiment has proved it. Some experiments are more fun than others. This was one of the some. Joseph Melcher and Jonathan Schooler of the University of Pittsburgh carried it out, wrote it up and then published it […]

Improbable Research