More wolves, more trees.
File this Washington Post story under “unintended consequences,” maybe. Researchers in Yellowstone Park are noting that as wolf populations are rebounding, the number of trees […]
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Electricity vs. depression.
Medical Xpress seems quite excited over the prospect of using “deep brain stimulation” to cure depression: The study was led by Helen S. Mayberg, MD, […]
A closer look at fish feet.
Oh, tetrapod. How Science Daily says you’ve changed. The first walkers, they’re saying, may have had more to do with floods than droughts: University of […]
Science Art: Chlamyphore tronque, Chlamyphorus truncatus, Harlan, by René Primevère Lesson
Click to embiggen The pink fairy armadillo wishes you a happy New Year. So, I am sure, would R.P. Lesson. [via Scientific Illustration]
Creatures of the Dragon Vent.
Guardian is taking a closer look at some of the strangest living things from one of the most peculiar places on Earth: In the first […]
Airplane profits – when “average” means “most dangerous.”
PhysOrg has something new for fearful flyers to obsess over. The further an airline is from its break-even point – either losing money or making […]
Last Neanderthals.
Next thing you know, they’re going to be showing up in our back yards. But Past Horizons says the last Neanderthals were about 8,000 years […]
Blood rice.
Not rice the cost of which is blood (I mean, not as in “blood diamonds”) but rice that PopSci says actually grows human blood: HSA […]
Science Art: Hickory, Norway Spruce, Chestnut, and Red Cedar & Pitch Pine, L. Prang chromolithograph.
From the New York Public Library Digital Gallery. Best wishes for a well-garlanded Yuletide.
Closer to Vesta.
NASA’s gotten downright cozy with that cute little planetoid: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its […]
Man bites dog; bug eats frog.
Science Daily dwells on a bizarre reversal of the usual order of things: …[I]n an unprecedented predator-prey role reversal, a certain group of ground beetle […]
Bb below the lowest C.
Not new research, but I just learned that the lowest note in the Universe: The black hole resides in the Perseus cluster of galaxies located […]
Eating for autism?
CBC News is reporting that the University of Ontario has found a connection between autistic behavior and digestion: UWO researchers investigated the “gut-brain” connection after […]
Science Art: Wels (Catfish) by Heinrich Harder, from Unsere Süßwasserfische by Dr. Emil Walter, 1913.
Click to embiggen A color plate from the BioDiversity Library’s edition of Our Freshwater Fish, first published in Leipzig in 1913. Heinrich Harder, as well […]
Entangled diamonds.
It’s, Ars Technica explains, a quantum thing – but looking bigger: Normally, two particles that can be described using separate mathematical descriptions. But, under certain […]