Nature delves into the surprising intricacies of bat language:
… Read the rest “Bats have more to say than you think.”Bats are noisy creatures, especially in their crowded caves, where they make calls to their neighbours. “If you go into a
Popular Science brings a 1970s science-fiction dream one step closer to reality with news that Uber Freight is ready to put robot truckers on the highway:
… Read the rest “10-4, bot buddy. Robot truckers join the convoy….”Uber, the technology company (which,
SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Reindeer are shrinking, because of warmer arctic temperatures ,” Science, 11 Dec 2016, as used in the post “Reindeer… Read the rest “SONG: “Tiny Reindeer””
The Guardian reports on a rational, logical approach to making the big bucks… by evaluating trades (and making hiring and firing decisions) using a custom-built computer rather… Read the rest “World’s largest hedge fund set to replace management with supercomputer.”
BBC unveils how exactly our brains are able to turn the garbled sounds of a crowded room into understandable speech:
… Read the rest ““The Cocktail Party Effect” noise filter is revealed at last.”A team measured people’s brain activity as the words of a previously
Heard this odd bit of medical science on Marketplace this morning. A new study of 1.5 million patients found that those treated by doctors who were women have a 5-percent better chance of … Read the rest “Female doctors’ patients live longer.”
SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)”.
ARTIST: grant (originally by Mose Allison).
SOURCE: This song doesn’t have a scientific source; it’s… Read the rest “SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)””
My old dog was a basset. And now there’s a bulldog in my house. I’m not sure how dogs happen, but they do.
This is what these breeds (pretty “over-bred” breeds) look… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941”
Science Daily goes for a schvitz and a think with the University of Finland, where researchers have found that frequent sauna visits protect men against dementia:
… Read the rest “Sauna for your mental health.”The effects of sauna bathing
Science reports on a reindeer study that’s been running a lot longer than this Christmas season. Researchers in the Arctic have found that reindeer have lost an average of 12% of their… Read the rest “Reindeer have been shrinking since 1994.”
Science Daily looks at the vacation habits of Neanderthals on Jersey:
… Read the rest “Jersey shore (the one in the English Channel) was a prehistoric tourist attraction for *millennia*.”As part of a re-examination of La Cotte de St Brelade and its surrounding landscape, archaeologists from Southampton,
BBC has, courtesy of the Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), a quarter-century of satellite images of Antarctica showing how the ice is shrinking, and where the melted water… Read the rest “Antarctic ice-loss: a 25-year-long look from space.”
Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, just before the Mercury-Atlas… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962”
Not that anything’s trying to get out. No, Live Science wouldn’t want us to panic needlessly over a gigantic crevice yawning wide across shrinking ice-fields of the least-understood… Read the rest “70-mile-long, 300-foot-wide crack opens in Antarctica.”
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