Month: September 2010
Humpbacked weirdosaur.
There’s a great piece up at ScienceBlogs demonstrating how paleontology (and, even better, paleontological art) really works. It’s Darren Naish enthusing about a particularly… Read the rest “Humpbacked weirdosaur.”
Conching dolphins.
New Scientist tells the story of dolphins using tools to hunt:
… Read the rest “Conching dolphins.”Simon Allen, a behavioural ecologist at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, was out on a routine survey when one of the
Medical diamonds.
Discovery News digs deep for a story on things diamonds can do that are more than skin deep:
… Read the rest “Medical diamonds.”Virtually any kind of protein or chemical can coat nanodiamonds. When placed into the body, those
Charles Darwin: Terraformer
The BBC exposes a secret experiment by the man who brought us evolution: an island that Darwin turned into an artificial ecosystem:
… Read the rest “Charles Darwin: Terraformer”Ascension was an arid island, buffeted by dry trade winds
Science Art: Two-Dimensional Low-Turbulence Tunnel
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NASA has a new collection on Flickr Commons.
It’s pretty awesome.
So is this wind tunnel, also known as the “ice tunnel” because it was studying that… Read the rest “Science Art: Two-Dimensional Low-Turbulence Tunnel”
Frog skin super-drugs…
…will beat those super-bugs. Science Daily reveals a brand new source for potent antibiotics:
… Read the rest “Frog skin super-drugs…”The scientists are currently screening skin secretions from more than 6,000 species
What do you have to say?
That’s the question posed by a fun linguistic think-piece in the New York Times. The article looks over the latest developments in linguistic determination – the idea that… Read the rest “What do you have to say?”
Lungless, projectile-tongued salamander discovered.
And it’s up to the Guardian to tell me about the latest critter found in Appalachia:
… Read the rest “Lungless, projectile-tongued salamander discovered.”Its jaw and tooth structure suggest that it uses a projectile tongue to capture small prey such as