The Northern Territory-based FrogWatch group says it has found a new species of frog in East Arnhem Land — via ABC News
A newly discovered species of spider living in Madagascar makes the world’s longest known web, spanning 25m. The spider also makes the largest orb web yet found for any spider, and constructs it out of the most tough biomaterial yet known, say scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 500 years after Spanish priests brought wheat seeds to Mexico to make wafers for the Catholic Mass, those seeds may bring a new kind of salvation to farmers hit by global warming.
Scientists working in the farming hills outside Mexico City found the ancient wheat varieties have particular drought- and heat-resistant traits, like longer roots that suck up water and a capacity to store more nutrients in their stalks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A research team reports new findings of stone age tools that suggest humans came “out of Africa” by land earlier than has been thought — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 600,000 plant species have been deleted from the dictionary of life after the most comprehensive assessment carried out by scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Not a road, but dead fish. This large fish kill was reported last Friday in Plaquemines parish, Louisiana. Associated Press reports that biologists at the state department of wildlife and fisheries have determined the BP oil spill is not at fault — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Guy Consolmagno, who is one of the pope’s astronomers, said he would be “delighted” if intelligent life was found among the stars — via solidarity-nite.newsvine.com
Investigators Geri Sullivan, Gavi Levy Haskell and Susan Levy Haskell have knitted a gallery full of bacteria, a few varieties of which are shown here. The undertook the project partly in honor of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, where the theme is BACTERIA and where everyone will be covered, one way or another, with bacteria — via Improbable Research
Scientists in the UK have developed a new treatment, similar to a paint, that could almost double the life of a transplanted organ — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Harper government has tightened the muzzle on federal scientists, going so far as to control when and what they can say about floods at the end of the last ice age — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists in Britain say they have devised a new ultra-sensitive test which can diagnose the presence of the tuberculosis bacterium in one hour — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Imagine a metal that remembers
its original, cold-forged shape, and can return to that shape when exposed to heat or a magnetic pulse. Like magic out of a Harry Potter novel, such a metal could contract on command, or swing back and forth like a pendulum — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Veterinary officials are investigating how a Devon horse became infected with a rare exotic disease — via redwolf.newsvine.com
People who were still developing in the womb at the time of severe World War II food shortages did worse than others of similar ages at mental tests almost 60 years later, researchers say — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Biotech wizards have engineered electronic skin that can sense touch, in a major step towards next-generation robotics and prosthetic limbs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists say they are one step closer to solving the most common eye disorder in the world – myopia or short-sightedness — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For most people, wisdom teeth are not much more than an annoyance that eventually needs to be removed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Writing sometime around the 10th century BC, the furious author of Psalm 14 thundered against those who say there is no God. “They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” If the denunciations of wicked atheists coming from today’s apologists for religion are any guide, the spirit of Iron Age Israel is abroad in 21st-century Britain.
In advance of the pope’s visit, clergymen and commentators are deploying every variety of bogus argument against those who advocate the superiority of secularism. Edmund Adamus, director of pastoral affairs for the Catholic diocese of Westminster, led the way when he denounced the “wasteland” secularism produced. If he had been condemning the atheist tyrannies of communism and fascism, I would have no complaint. However, Adamus was not objecting to Cuba, China or North Korea, but to the wasteland of secular, democratic Britain “with its ever-increasing commercialisation of sex, not to mention its permissive laws advancing the ‘gay’ agenda” — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The eyes of cattle may reveal signs of neurological disorders such as mad cow disease, say scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Palaeontologists in Spain have discovered the remains of a strange dinosaur with a hump that they believe is the forerunner of flesh-eating leviathans which once ruled the planet — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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