Worms, organize!
It’s not just ants and naked mole rats that organize into eerily intelligent colonies, Discovery News says. Worms are getting in on the action, too: […]
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Prescription pop.
Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University are using music (and audio engineering) to treat pain and depression – by mapping out emotional terrain in pop songs: […]
Duck penis competition.
This is so going to trigger spam filters, but I don’t care. Science News has reported breaking news… that male ducks grow bigger penises when […]
Hurricane from orbit.
Hurricane Igor, from the International Space Station. [via]
The Michigan extinction event.
It’s happening now, the CS Monitor writes. The entire Lake Michigan ecosystem is collapsing: The quagga [mussel] is found in all of the Great Lakes; […]
Science Art: Robert Roy (Fig. 14) Heredity of Albinism
Click to embiggen Found in VintagePrintable.com’s Life Science gallery.
Humpbacked weirdosaur.
There’s a great piece up at ScienceBlogs demonstrating how paleontology (and, even better, paleontological art) really works. It’s Darren Naish enthusing about a particularly strange-looking […]
Conching dolphins.
New Scientist tells the story of dolphins using tools to hunt: Simon Allen, a behavioural ecologist at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, was out on […]
Medical diamonds.
Discovery News digs deep for a story on things diamonds can do that are more than skin deep: Virtually any kind of protein or chemical […]
Charles Darwin: Terraformer
The BBC exposes a secret experiment by the man who brought us evolution: an island that Darwin turned into an artificial ecosystem: Ascension was an […]
Science Art: Two-Dimensional Low-Turbulence Tunnel
Click to embiggen NASA has a new collection on Flickr Commons. It’s pretty awesome. So is this wind tunnel, also known as the “ice tunnel” […]
Frog skin super-drugs…
…will beat those super-bugs. Science Daily reveals a brand new source for potent antibiotics: The scientists are currently screening skin secretions from more than 6,000 […]
What do you have to say?
That’s the question posed by a fun linguistic think-piece in the New York Times. The article looks over the latest developments in linguistic determination – […]
Lungless, projectile-tongued salamander discovered.
And it’s up to the Guardian to tell me about the latest critter found in Appalachia: Its jaw and tooth structure suggest that it uses […]
Look who’s running the asylum.
And, in fact, the whole discipline of psychology. National Post exposes the sad truth that industrialized, post-Enlightenment Westerners are weird: The article, titled “The weirdest […]