NASA scientists are claiming a breakthrough in the search for alien life forms, following the discovery of new micro-bacteria at the bottom of a lake in California — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The fragmentation of tropical rainforests 300 million years ago helped pave the way for the rise of the dinosaurs, a new study suggests — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Some UFO sightings could be explained by ball lightning and other atmospheric phenomena, claims Australian astrophysicist Stephen Hughes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A team of researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a biological system, in fact a baterial cell system, as an alternative solution for data en/decryption and storage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Claims that global warming has slowed down over the past decade were partly based on faulty data. Instead, the rate of global warming was underestimated because of a new way of measuring sea-surface temperatures, suggests a new study.
Since the 1970s average global temperatures have risen by 0.16°C per decade, but over the past decade they seemed to rise by only 0.09°C, an apparent slowdown of 0.07°C. John Kennedy and colleagues at the UK Met Office have now found that the real slowdown was smaller — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
What might your surroundings look like with a bionic eye? New simulations from Australia’s National ICT Centre for Excellence (NICTA) are recreating what patients can expect to see with the next two generations of their device — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
— via Science Punk
Army ants have a reputation for annihilating everything in their path as they march through the jungle.
But the most complete study of its kind has found that army ants are creators of whole worlds, not destroyers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An American nuclear scientist says he was shown a vast new nuclear facility when he visited North Korea last week.
Dr Siegfried Hecker said he had been shown hundreds of centrifuges for enriching uranium, which can be used for making nuclear weapons — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
Evidence supporting Australia’s internal quarantine restrictions designed to stop the spread of insect pests, has been published in the respected scientific journal, Nature Communications — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The local farmers call it a flood; an inundation that happens every 50 years.
Others believe it to be an act of God, an inevitability.
It isn’t water flooding the precious farmland in north-eastern India, but rats.
A once in a generation, gigantic plague of rats, that ruins crops and leaves people starving.
A rat army so big, so mythical, that until now some scientists did not believe it was real. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Jimmy McBride makes these completely incredible intergalactic quilts. He writes:
they say in space,
no one can hear you scream. well, they can’t hear the low drone of the internal power generators kick on again when you’re half way to nowhere. i can. i work for a shipping company calledintergalactic transport. i travel back and forth from rock to rock carrying those two all important gems- salt and vinegar. there’s a lot of time to kill up here so i downloaded a grandma program and she’s been teaching me how to quilt. there’s no “log cabins” or “poinsettias” around so i just stare out the window until something catches my eye.
— via CRAFT
If you were an octopus, would you view the world from eight different points of view? Nine?
The answer may depend on how many brains an octopus has, or, to say it another way, whether the robust bunches of neurons in its coiling, writhing, incredibly handy arms bestow on each of them something akin to a brain. Is an octopus a creature ruled by a single consciousness centered in its large brain, or, by dint of its nerve-infused legs, a collaborative, cooperative, but distributed mind?
The idea of a distributed mind among animals is not new, according to Peter Godfrey-Smith, who focuses his efforts on the philosophy of science. Experiments indicate that when a bird learns a skill using only a single eye, and is later tested while being forced to use the other eye, the learning does not transfer well — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Giving breast cancer patients cough syrup might tell doctors how well they will respond to a vital drug — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A search for frogs believed to be extinct has instead led scientists to discover some new ones.
Three species hitherto unknown to science have been found in Colombia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
May beer have helped lead to the rise of civilization? It’s a possibility, some archaeologists say. Signs that people went to great lengths to obtain grains despite the hard work needed to make them edible, plus the knowledge that feasts were important community-building gatherings, support the idea that cereal grains were being turned into beer, said archaeologist Brian Hayden at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Beer is sacred stuff in most traditional societies,
said Hayden — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A large new species of deep red, glowing squid has been discovered living near undersea mountains in the southern Indian Ocean, scientists announced Monday — via logicalabsurdity.newsvine.com
A new species of large squid with light-producing organs it uses to attract prey has been discovered in the Indian Ocean, a UK researcher says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The public release of the genome of the cacao tree – from which chocolate is made – will save the chocolate industry from collapse, a scientist has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
People being treated for severe acne should have their mental health closely monitored, a study reports — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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