Nature reveals proof that elephants recognize individual humans – including the languages used who did them wrong:
… Read the rest “Elephants really never forget… their enemies’ words.”Biologists Karen McComb and Graeme Shannon at the University
National Geographic is hosting a live chat tomorrow with some of the folks on the forefront of space exploration:
… Read the rest “Chat with the folks who are building our future in space….”On March 20 at 2:30 p.m. ET, join us for a live video conversation with space
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?”
The New York Times looks at the first new research into LSD therapy in four decades:
… Read the rest “LSD is back in the lab… helping people face death.”“I’d never taken the drug before, so I was feeling — well, I think the proper word for it, in English, is dread,”
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.
The Verge is rolling out the red carpet to welcome back the clap:
… Read the rest “Gonorrhea is coming back.”…[P]enicillin and various tetracyclines have all stopped working against the most prevalent strains. This means
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.”
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?”
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).”
The New York Times looks inside the house of tomorrow, which is staying in touch with its owner via Twitter:
… Read the rest “This home really speaks to me. Over the internet…”So it is with Tom Coates’s San Francisco home, which live-tweets the movements
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.”
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.”
Georgia Tech researchers are trying to become prosthetic Neal Pearts, Science Daily reports, with an improvising robotic drumming limb:
… Read the rest “Three-armed cyborg drummer. Yeah. A drummer with a third robot arm.”The robotic drumming prosthesis has motors that
Nature digs up the info on the termite robots built this castle:
… Read the rest “Robot swarms that build. By themselves…”The robots all work independently. Each travels along a grid and can move, climb a step and lift and put down bricks. And they
New Scientist is not (we hope) introducing a 1950s-style horror film with their story on the giant, prehistoric virus THAT LIVES AGAIN:
… Read the rest “Giant, prehistoric virus thawed from Siberian permafrost.”Dubbed a pithovirus after the Greek pithos, meaning
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