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Sequoias are used to this 27 Aug 2013 | 04:41 am
Fire scars (arrows) in a sequoia cross-section show that this tree survived repeated wildfires over its 500 year lifespan. Credit: National Geographic National Geographic has a nice write-up of.....
Tame dogs-- and feral scientists 26 Aug 2013 | 10:50 pm
Via John Hawks, I had missed this during last summer: there are several big scientific groups interested in when and where dogs were first domesticated. It is clear that there were dogs in human socie...
Asian carp-- not (yet) in the Great Lakes 25 Aug 2013 | 02:02 am
Asian Carp approaching Lake Michigan via waterways in the greater Chicago area. Credit:mlive Asian carp are a group of invasive species that are working their way up tributaries of the Mississippi ri...
Bats as a possible reservoir for Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome 25 Aug 2013 | 12:41 am
Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome , or MERS, is a lethal viral pneumonia which has only been known to epidemiologists since 2012. The causative agent of MERS is a coronavirus, a member the same vir...
Possible therapy for people with Ebola Virus Disease 22 Aug 2013 | 05:25 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A map of historical outbreaks of Ebola Virus Disease. A related virus also escaped in Reston, Virginia (U.S.A.) but did not infect humans. Cr...
How dinosaurs were able to have such long necks 18 Aug 2013 | 05:25 pm
Comparison of saruopod dinosaur necks (right side) to necks of non-dinosaurs (left). Credit: Taylor and Weidel, PeerJ 2013 ) Via National Geographic, I found this interesting analysis by Taylor and ...
That sinking feeling 17 Aug 2013 | 05:31 pm
This makes sense in retrospect, but I would not have predicted it: fish farms set up near the Yellow River delta are contributing to a faster-than-average sea rise in the area. The fish farms are usin...
It's all in the wrist 16 Aug 2013 | 04:33 am
There's a famous scene early in the movie 2001: A space odyssey in which a tribe of human ancestors learns (from a mysterious monolith ) how to use a club. They leverage this knowledge to whack their...
Summary of the Curiosity rover's year on Mars 16 Aug 2013 | 01:52 am
There's a nice write-up of all of the science that has come out of the Curiosity rover's time on Mars over at Wired Science.
Brain-eating amoebas 15 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
While on the topic of amoebas, there have been a few cases of kids getting meningitis after inhaling amoebas while swimming in freshwater lakes. Click though the link for an image of the infectious am...
