Aquaman may have had more going for him than he gets credit for. Scientific American reveals the amazing power fish have to reverse global warming:
… Read the rest “Fish are saving the planet.”By assigning a dollar value to carbon stored
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From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 28.
It’s a dyke, a rock formation between two layers of Australian rock like jam in a sandwich.… Read the rest “Science Art: “Dolerite” Dyke Traversing “Desert Sandstone”, 1872.”
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.
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
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