Desert feeds jungle.
Nature reveals a hidden connection between Sahara dust and the Amazon rainforest:
… Read the rest “Desert feeds jungle.”Significant amounts of plant nutrients have been found in atmospheric mineral dust blowing from a vast
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Catch the Perseids.
Big show. Shooting stars. Tomorrow night, night after that. Space.com has some details.
Go. Watch the skies.
Radioactive boars rising.
Oh. OK.
Discovery is reporting that the population of radioactive boars is increasing in Europe:
… Read the rest “Radioactive boars rising.”Radioactive wild boars are on the rise in Germany, where they have attacked and frightened
Science Art: Ventricose Cuttlefish, probably by Charles Knight
A close-up from another page of Charles Knight’s Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature. This may be mistitled – other creatures on the same page were called… Read the rest “Science Art: Ventricose Cuttlefish, probably by Charles Knight”
Zeppelin reborn
The Telegraph heralds the future fleet of mighty airships:
… Read the rest “Zeppelin reborn”Hybrid Air Vehicles has built a scale prototype of what will soon be the largest flying vessel in the world – a huge balloon made
Bringing down the sun.
Science Daily has the skinny on cheaper solar power:
… Read the rest “Bringing down the sun.”Stanford engineers have figured out how to simultaneously use the light and heat of the sun to generate electricity in a way that could
Gorilla glass!
The Christian Science Monitor loves primates. On the heels of the flying squirrel discovery, they’re analyzing the economic ramifications of “gorilla glass”:
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Need to bother your monkey? Try flying squirrels!
It’s really hard to beat the Christian Science Monitor’s headline on this story…. Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts:
… Read the rest “Need to bother your monkey? Try flying squirrels!”“Human
Fare thee well, Triceratops.
They came for Pluto. They came for Brontosaurus. And now, BoingBoing reports, they’ve come for Triceratops:
… Read the rest “Fare thee well, Triceratops.”maybe we should be calling it torosaurus now, I’m not sure. See,
Science Art: Seals, from The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature.
Seals and seal hunters, from Charles Knight’s Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, exact publication date unknown but currently accessible at archive.org.… Read the rest “Science Art: Seals, from The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature.”
The mosquito conundrum: Why not kill ’em all?
Nature wades into the controversy, asking scientists what would really happen if we killed all the mosquitoes:
… Read the rest “The mosquito conundrum: Why not kill ’em all?”A stronger argument for keeping mosquitoes might be found if they provide
Snail spit kills pain.
I have a vague memory of writing a story back in the 1990s about researchers trying to figure out how to use lethal cone snail venom for medical purposes. Well, EurekAlert says they finally… Read the rest “Snail spit kills pain.”
Super-scum. Again.
This is more covering-the-coverage than flogging a new discovery, but the New York Times is keeping tabs on the process of turning pond scum into an industrial fuel source:
… Read the rest “Super-scum. Again.”Foreign genes
Teen motherhood: Evolutionary strategy.
There’s a whole shovel-load of politics wrapped up in this New Scientist report on the evolutionary effects of poverty on human reproduction:
… Read the rest “Teen motherhood: Evolutionary strategy.”There is no reason to view the poor as
Science Art: Venus and the Ark, by Anne Sexton
… Read the rest “Science Art: Venus and the Ark, by Anne Sexton”The missile to launch a missile
was almost a secret.
Two male Ph.D.’s were picked
and primed to fill it
and one hundred
carefully counted insects,
three almost new snakes,
coiled in a cube,