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Month: August 2015

The key to octopuses’ uncanny intelligence is in their genes.

13 August 2015 grant 0

Nature reports that the octopus has, for an invertebrate, a really large genome – including a long sequence of genes that regulates intelligence in “higher” animals… Read the rest “The key to octopuses’ uncanny intelligence is in their genes.”

The Lost Colony… found?

12 August 2015 grant 0

New York Times reveals what might be the ultimate fate of the Lost Colony of Roanoke:

They call the spot Site X. Down a dusty road winding through soybean fields, the clearing lies between

… Read the rest “The Lost Colony… found?”

Graphene’s tin cousin

10 August 2015 grant 0

Nature greets a new one-atom-thick material – a super-thin sheet of tin scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University are calling “stanene”:

Stanene (from the Latin

… Read the rest “Graphene’s tin cousin”

Science Art: Experience the Gravity of a Super Earth, NASA/JPL Exoplanet Travel Bureau

9 August 2015 grant 0

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Apparently, since last December at least, NASA has been creating vintage-style travel posters for exoplanets – the planets we’ve been discovering around… Read the rest “Science Art: Experience the Gravity of a Super Earth, NASA/JPL Exoplanet Travel Bureau”

Emotions help you remember information

7 August 2015 grant 0

Science Daily processes a University of Haifa finding about why first impressions are so important – and how *feeling* a thing helps you *know* a thing:

Dr. Shlomo Wagner of the Sagol

… Read the rest “Emotions help you remember information”

Teens and two-year-olds: The ages most vulnerable to trauma.

6 August 2015 grant 0

Quartz opens a window on the two periods of brain development when traumatic events do the most damage:

According to Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and senior lecturer at MIT, your “terrible

… Read the rest “Teens and two-year-olds: The ages most vulnerable to trauma.”

Oh, and your picky eater is doomed, too.

5 August 2015 grant 0

OK, I’m overstating things for dramatic effect… but another Science Daily report reveals even moderately picky eaters face health risks:

According to the study, published

… Read the rest “Oh, and your picky eater is doomed, too.”

You don’t know how (un)happy your children are.

4 August 2015 grant 0

Science Daily reveals that parents are (as we suspected) getting it all wrong – they think their 10-year-olds are happier – and their 15-year-olds are unhappier – than… Read the rest “You don’t know how (un)happy your children are.”

Science Art: Her Majesty’s Cochins; Imported in 1843, published 1904.

2 August 2015 grant 0

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These are ostensibly Cochin chickens, or forerunners of what we’d call Cochins today. They’re a breed with a *lot* of character, and are uniquely suited,… Read the rest “Science Art: Her Majesty’s Cochins; Imported in 1843, published 1904.”

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