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Month: February 2014

Chimp civilization found in Congo.

10 February 2014 grant 0

OK, that’s a little hyperbolic, but only a little. The Guardian has more on the last chimp “mega-culture” just found in the central African jungle:

Harboured by the

… Read the rest “Chimp civilization found in Congo.”

Science Art: Occipital View of Skull of Ovibos Moschatus, by W. West & Co., 1866

9 February 2014 grant 0

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This is a very old skull from a Stone Age mammal called Ovibos moschatus, as pictured in A monograph of the British pleistocene mammalia, a publication by W. Boyd Dawkins… Read the rest “Science Art: Occipital View of Skull of Ovibos Moschatus, by W. West & Co., 1866”

2,000-year-old village uncovered… in downtown Miami.

6 February 2014 grant 0

Miami Herald gets the low-down on the underground 305 – hidden under Miami streets and condos and neon-lit skyscrapers, there’s a prehistoric village (and a priceless piece… Read the rest “2,000-year-old village uncovered… in downtown Miami.”

Neuroscientists: Your memory is a fiction.

5 February 2014 grant 0

Science Daily reveals the tricks that the present plays on our memories:

This the first study to show specifically how memory is faulty, and how it can insert things from the present into

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Little lost Chinese rover: “Good night, planet Earth. Good night, humanity.”

4 February 2014 grant 0

The Independent covers the poignant final hours of China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover as the rolling robot bids a sad farewell to the folks back home:

…Jade Rabbit – named

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Let’s bake up some stem cells!

3 February 2014 grant 0

Nature‘s sharing a recipe to make your own stem cells from scratch – by reprogramming ordinary cells in an acid bath:

In 2006, Japanese researchers reported1 a technique for

… Read the rest “Let’s bake up some stem cells!”

Science Art: Water Features and Relief Features, from The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey, with brief descriptions of processes of reproduction, 1920

2 February 2014 grant 0

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An illustration illustrating illustration. This is how standardized maps are made. These are the standards.

From The preparation of illustrations for reports of the… Read the rest “Science Art: Water Features and Relief Features, from The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey, with brief descriptions of processes of reproduction, 1920”

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