A new study suggests sharks may be colour blind, challenging the long-held belief they were mainly attracted to yellow — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Children play and draw with crayons practically every day, so why not make the experience more educational? While children are coloring, they are also exposed to the names of chemicals that will make those colors! So instead of thinking I want green
they will think I want Barium Nitrate Ba(NO3)2 Flame
and then when they take chemistry in high school and their teacher sets some gas on fire and it makes a green color and they ask the class what chemical it was your student will know it was Barium! Genius! — via Etsy
Chaser, a border collie who lives in Spartanburg, SC, has the largest vocabulary of any known dog. She knows 1,022 nouns, a record that displays unexpected depths of the canine mind and may help explain how children acquire language — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States hopes to clone a mammoth, a symbol of Earth’s ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, according to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun. The researchers say they hope to produce a baby mammoth within six years — via woofwoof79.newsvine.com
A copper-alloy sword guard was recently found in a shipwreck thought to be Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge, archaeologists said in March 2009 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It sounds like something a guided missile would do. Foxes seem to zero in on prey using Earth’s magnetic field. They are the first animal thought to use the field to judge distance rather than just direction — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Powerful thunderstorms on Earth can fling beams of antimatter into space, a new study finds.
Scientists picked up on the never-before-seen phenomenon by peering at thunderstorms with NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The antimatter particles were likely created by what scientists call a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF), a brief burst of gamma rays produced inside thunderstorms and known to be associated with lightning, researchers said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest wine-making facility ever found, using biochemical techniques to identify a dry red vintage made about 6,000 years ago in what is now southern Armenia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists in the Netherlands have discovered that insects produce significantly less greenhouse gas per kilogram of meat than cattle or pigs. Their study, published in the online journal PLoS One, suggests that a move towards insect farming could result in a more sustainable – and affordable – form of meat production — via redwolf.newsvine.com
South Australian researchers say a breakthrough in IVF technology will increase the chances of women becoming pregnant — via redwolf.newsvine.com
2UE’s Tracey Spicer spoke to The Australian Vaccination Network Inc President, Meryl Dorey about the information that she has put up on her website about Vaccination and how we shouldn’t vaccinate our children — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Central American leaf-cutter ants retire
from their cutting role when they grow old, switching to carrying when their jaws blunt with age — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists say they have developed a way to predict a person’s probable hair colour using markers in their DNA — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian scientists have made a discovery that may lead to a simple way of identifying a common and debilitating anxiety disorder — via redwolf.newsvine.com
American scientists say stem cells producing the wrong kind of hair could be the root cause of most baldness in men — via redwolf.newsvine.com
American researchers say they have made a breakthrough in the quest for a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A ten-year old girl from Canada has discovered a supernova, making her the youngest person ever to find a stellar explosion. The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada announced the discovery by Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton, New Brunswick, (wonderful middle name!) who was assisted by astronomers Paul Gray and David Lane. Supernova 2010lt is a magnitude 17 supernova in galaxy UGC 3378 in the constellation of Camelopardalis, as reported on IAU Electronic Telegram 2618. The galaxy was imaged on New Year’s Eve 2010, and the supernova was discovered on January 2, 2011 by Kathryn and her father Paul — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Six bird species are set to be added to the list of extinct Australian animals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist famous for his Body Worlds
shows of preserved corpses, has told a German newspaper that he is suffering from Parkinson’s disease. He is preparing to become an exhibit himself, he said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian scientist has discovered an unusual species of frog in southern Vietnam — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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