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Month: April 2015

A plant-eating T. rex… with a long neck.

30 April 2015 grant 0

Science Daily tries to describe a “platypus dinosaur” that combines the oddest bits of Brontosaurus and T. rex:

Chilesaurus diegosuarezi is named after the country where

… Read the rest “A plant-eating T. rex… with a long neck.”

Lionfish have reached Brazil.

29 April 2015 grant 0

Nature reports on a strikingly beautiful – and utterly destructive – invasive critter that’s swept across warm waters from Ft. Lauderdale to Venezuela:

Lionfish

… Read the rest “Lionfish have reached Brazil.”

Science Art: The Golden Horns of Gallehus.

26 April 2015 grant 0

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These are two ancient horns, made of gold and engraved (or embossed) with runes and pictures that seem to tell a story. Or maybe just look cool.

Also, they are horns that it seems like no one … Read the rest “Science Art: The Golden Horns of Gallehus.”

SONG: “How the Moon Began”

24 April 2015 grant 0

SONG: “How the Moon Began.”

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SOURCE:Based on “Puzzle of Moon’s origin resolved”, Nature, 8 April 2015, as used in the post “Scientists:… Read the rest “SONG: “How the Moon Began””

Dinosaur eggs in the big city.

22 April 2015 grant 0

Sometimes, as South China Morning Post demonstrates, you just can’t dig a hole in some parts of China without making some kind of remarkable dinosaur discovery:

The fossils were

… Read the rest “Dinosaur eggs in the big city.”

The phrase “human-induced seismic hazards” means “man-made earthquakes.” Thanks to oil mining…

21 April 2015 grant 0

Nature has more on the research into the aformentioned artificial earthquakes:

It’s the first thing that geologist Todd Halihan asks on a sunny spring afternoon at Oklahoma State University

… Read the rest “The phrase “human-induced seismic hazards” means “man-made earthquakes.” Thanks to oil mining…”

Vampire squid stranger, even, than previously thought.

20 April 2015 grant 0

Science Daily goes deeper into the singular (and kinda sexy) oddness of the vampire squid:

At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don’t swim so much as float, and they get by

… Read the rest “Vampire squid stranger, even, than previously thought.”

Science Art: Las Cascadas Slide (Section 6) from AB Nichols Notebook Vol. 38, 1910

19 April 2015 grant 0

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This is a handmade map from the construction of the Panama Canal, one of history’s greatest feats of engineering. Culebra Cut is where the project experienced massive… Read the rest “Science Art: Las Cascadas Slide (Section 6) from AB Nichols Notebook Vol. 38, 1910”

Our cannibal roots.

17 April 2015 grant 0

Science Daily digs into new evidence that early humans enjoyed an occasional bite of early human:

Gough’s Cave in Somerset was thought to have given up all its secrets when excavations

… Read the rest “Our cannibal roots.”

Pictish fort found off Aberdeen

16 April 2015 grant 0

BBC is reporting that University of Aberdeen researchers have got all het up over the thought that there are traces of all kinds of pre-Celtic settlements in the rocks along the coast:

Pictish

… Read the rest “Pictish fort found off Aberdeen”

New Alzheimer’s hope?

15 April 2015 grant 0

The Independent reports on Duke University researchers who think they’ve figured out how Alzheimer’s happens… and how to stop it:

Researchers at Duke announced that

… Read the rest “New Alzheimer’s hope?”

The thing that really sets human beings apart: our chins.

14 April 2015 grant 0

Thanks to Science Daily, I’ll never think of my beard the same way again. They’ve got new insight into the evolution of humankind’s most uniquely human feature –… Read the rest “The thing that really sets human beings apart: our chins.”

Science Art: Firing in the Fog, 1995

13 April 2015 grant 0

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In which NASA tests a Space Shuttle engine in Mississippi, on a cool and humid day.

Found on GRIN.

Obesity contra dementia. (How the extra pounds protect your brain.)

10 April 2015 grant 0

Popular Science plunges into a study in The Lancet examining the possible neurological benefit of being obese:

The team of British researchers looked at records of almost two million patients

… Read the rest “Obesity contra dementia. (How the extra pounds protect your brain.)”

Humor boosts the bottom line. (Call it “funny business.”)

9 April 2015 grant 0

Scientific American examines what’s so wise about cracking up at meetings:

…Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen explored whether humor in the workplace might also help a corporation

… Read the rest “Humor boosts the bottom line. (Call it “funny business.”)”

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