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Elephants really never forget… their enemies’ words.

20 March 2014 grant 0

Nature reveals proof that elephants recognize individual humans – including the languages used who did them wrong:

Biologists Karen McComb and Graeme Shannon at the University

… Read the rest “Elephants really never forget… their enemies’ words.”

Chat with the folks who are building our future in space….

19 March 2014 grant 0

National Geographic is hosting a live chat tomorrow with some of the folks on the forefront of space exploration:

On March 20 at 2:30 p.m. ET, join us for a live video conversation with space

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Darker than Nemesis: Was it dark matter that killed the dinosaurs?

18 March 2014 grant 0

Nature tries to see what was behind the comet that killed the dinosaurs – and other mass extinctions that seem to happen every 35 million years. One guess: Our solar system passes through… Read the rest “Darker than Nemesis: Was it dark matter that killed the dinosaurs?”

LSD is back in the lab… helping people face death.

17 March 2014 grant 0

The New York Times looks at the first new research into LSD therapy in four decades:

“I’d never taken the drug before, so I was feeling — well, I think the proper word for it, in English, is dread,”

… Read the rest “LSD is back in the lab… helping people face death.”

Science Art:Bacterial morphology diagram, by Mariana Ruiz

16 March 2014 grant 0

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It could be the new collection of shower curtains and matching towels at Target. But no – pleasant though they may be to look at, these shapes make us feel bad.

Found on Wikimedia Commons.

Gonorrhea is coming back.

14 March 2014 grant 0

The Verge is rolling out the red carpet to welcome back the clap:

…[P]enicillin and various tetracyclines have all stopped working against the most prevalent strains. This means

… Read the rest “Gonorrhea is coming back.”

New class of antibiotics may kill MRSA.

13 March 2014 grant 0

Science Daily has promising research from Notre Dame in the fight against antibiotic-resistant germs – a new class of chemicals that should kill bacteria like MRSA, the “super… Read the rest “New class of antibiotics may kill MRSA.”

Are antibiotics making us obese?

12 March 2014 grant 0

The New York Times investigates the strange history of American antibiotics – and how the medicine hailed as a “superdrug” in the 1940s might have made us an overweight… Read the rest “Are antibiotics making us obese?”

Our air pollution *weakens* hurricanes (but makes them wetter).

11 March 2014 grant 0

Science Daily says “aerosols produced by human activities” – that is, soot and exhaust fumes and all that great air pollution – definitely has an effect on the… Read the rest “Our air pollution *weakens* hurricanes (but makes them wetter).”

This home really speaks to me. Over the internet…

10 March 2014 grant 1

The New York Times looks inside the house of tomorrow, which is staying in touch with its owner via Twitter:

So it is with Tom Coates’s San Francisco home, which live-tweets the movements

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Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.

9 March 2014 grant 0

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Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) of a bee’s compound eye.

Full credit … Read the rest “Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.”

Electric current rouses the vegetative after years of unconsciousness.

7 March 2014 grant 0

New Scientist has an amazing new therapy for patients in a vegetative state – using the same direct current-stimulation that increases creative “flow” to turn their… Read the rest “Electric current rouses the vegetative after years of unconsciousness.”

Three-armed cyborg drummer. Yeah. A drummer with a third robot arm.

6 March 2014 grant 0

Georgia Tech researchers are trying to become prosthetic Neal Pearts, Science Daily reports, with an improvising robotic drumming limb:

The robotic drumming prosthesis has motors that

… Read the rest “Three-armed cyborg drummer. Yeah. A drummer with a third robot arm.”

Robot swarms that build. By themselves…

5 March 2014 grant 0

Nature digs up the info on the termite robots built this castle:

The robots all work independently. Each travels along a grid and can move, climb a step and lift and put down bricks. And they

… Read the rest “Robot swarms that build. By themselves…”

Giant, prehistoric virus thawed from Siberian permafrost.

4 March 2014 grant 0

New Scientist is not (we hope) introducing a 1950s-style horror film with their story on the giant, prehistoric virus THAT LIVES AGAIN:

Dubbed a pithovirus after the Greek pithos, meaning

… Read the rest “Giant, prehistoric virus thawed from Siberian permafrost.”

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  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
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