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Month: June 2014

Science of dance music: it’s what’s not there that counts.

10 June 2014 grant 0

Or, as NPR clarifies, what’s not there that makes *us* want to count. With our feet. Studies of syncopation have revealed that it’s absence that makes you want to dance:

Last

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Fish are saving the planet.

9 June 2014 grant 0

Aquaman may have had more going for him than he gets credit for. Scientific American reveals the amazing power fish have to reverse global warming:

By assigning a dollar value to carbon stored

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Science Art: “Dolerite” Dyke Traversing “Desert Sandstone”, 1872.

8 June 2014 grant 0

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From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 28.

It’s a dyke, a rock formation between two layers of Australian rock like jam in a sandwich.… Read the rest “Science Art: “Dolerite” Dyke Traversing “Desert Sandstone”, 1872.”

Bees know their way. As in they *know*. They remember.

5 June 2014 grant 0

Nature reveals a truth with some odd implications about insects’ inner lives. Memory tests prove that bees are more thoughtful than we realize:

“The surprise comes for many people

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A beer family tree.

4 June 2014 grant 0

New York Times explores the mapping of a new genome, as researchers chart a family tree of craft beer:

After thousands of years of unwitting domestication, brewing yeasts — the microorganisms

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Meet the Mega-Earth

3 June 2014 grant 0

Harvard researchers have found a whole new kind of planet. It’s just like ours, only way bigger:

Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a new type of planet –

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Fisherman reels in pagan god.

2 June 2014 grant 0

A Siberian fisherman netted a priceless archaeological artifact – a little statue from 2000 BCE. No word from the New York Daily News on the one that got away:

Nikolay Tarasov, 53,

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Science Art: Compound flower with pollen no scale bar, by Philippa Uwins

1 June 2014 grant 0

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Here, have a flower.

Up close. Colored in photoshop.

Found in the Wikimedia Commons.

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