Nature reveals a truth with some odd implications about insects’ inner lives. Memory tests prove that bees are more thoughtful than we realize:
… Read the rest “Bees know their way. As in they *know*. They remember.”“The surprise comes for many people
New York Times explores the mapping of a new genome, as researchers chart a family tree of craft beer:
… Read the rest “A beer family tree.”After thousands of years of unwitting domestication, brewing yeasts — the microorganisms
Harvard researchers have found a whole new kind of planet. It’s just like ours, only way bigger:
… Read the rest “Meet the Mega-Earth”Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a new type of planet –
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:
… Read the rest “Fisherman reels in pagan god.”Nikolay Tarasov, 53,
Nature covers the hard decisions that NASA faces in its latest budget… which may include shutting down a great space telescope (and an asteroid watchdog) to keep some other great … Read the rest “Farewell, Spitzer telescope?”
Scientific American watches NASA launch another satellite to watch the way our planet breathes:
… Read the rest “Watching the Earth breathe… again.”But since [David Crisp] first conceived the project nearly 15 years ago, he and other scientists
When it comes to finding new information, The Independent reports, those crazy, criss-crossing paths that ants take are more efficient than Google at processing new information:
… Read the rest “Ant colonies are smarter than Google.”The
From IBM’s patent 3470399, a device to tell how fast an electric motor is running by detecting its magnetic field.
SONG: “Something Missing.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Man prefers $50 3-D printed hand to $42,000… Read the rest “SONG: Something Missing”
Science Daily peeks into the mind of insects with new research that shows that fruit flies think before they act:
… Read the rest “Thinking insects”In experiments asking fruit flies to distinguish between ever closer concentrations
Another one for the unintended consequences file? From Slashdot (not normally a research reporting resource, but bear with us) we hear a note of concern sounded about Google cars cutting… Read the rest “Driverless cars: an economic problem.”
And now, Nature says, we know the names of the interplanetary stowaways:
… Read the rest “We’ve sent these germs to Mars.”Swabs of Curiosity’s surfaces before it was launched, including its heat shield and flight system, revealed 65
Science Daily pokes a hole in the optimism around electronic cigarettes with findings that they’re really not that different from the kind you light and burn:
… Read the rest “E-cigarettes not really that much better than the non-e variety.”The devices, which
In the 1970s, NASA hired some artists to visualize life in three kinds of space colonies. Here, we’ve got a Bernal Sphere, a “point design with a sphere living area,” … Read the rest “Science Art: Inside a Bernal Sphere Colony, by Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center”
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