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featured First waterworld planet GJ1214b observed by Hubble

GJ1214b, shown in this artist's impression, is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth; Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Aguilar (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) A planet...

On Feb 22, 2012 by Adrian Bishop 0 Comments

Human-generated Noise Affects Nestling Birds

Tree Swallow at nest site (tachycineta bicolor); Credit: © Elizabeth Fairhurst We've all seen nestlings squeaking on the ground, looking lost. Marty L. Leonard and Andrew G. Horn of Dalhousie...

On Feb 22, 2012 by Dave Armstrong 0 Comments

Chimpanzee Altruism

This guy can help. Chimpanzees only help each other on request, courtesy of Shutterstock When we help each other, it's often voluntary and we can offer varying forms of understanding....

On Feb 07, 2012 by Dave Armstrong 0 Comments

Can you hear the Jurassic crickets?

Above: Fig. 1. A. musicus sp. nov. (A-D) photographs and line drawing of the RW and LW of holotype illustrating wing venation. Red arrows show the location of the stridulatory...

On Feb 07, 2012 by Dave Armstrong 0 Comments

New clues to animal climate change adaption

Thirty-thousand-year-old permafrost bison bones from the Yukon region of Canada; Credit: The University of Adelaide Ancient bison bones may help scientists discover how animals adapt to rapid climate change. For...

On Feb 01, 2012 by Adrian Bishop 0 Comments

Mammal Evolution: Mouse to elephant-size in 24 million generations

Size transformations can happen much faster in animals that live in the water. An increase from rabbit-sized to elephant-sized would take at least five million generations, but the equivalent change...

On Jan 31, 2012 by Adrian Bishop 0 Comments

Tropical volcanoes caused Little Ice Age claim

Gifford Miller collects vegetation samples on Baffin Island; Photo Credit: University of Colorado Boulder The 13th-century Little Ice Age was caused by four huge tropical volcanic eruptions, scientists believe. The...

On Jan 31, 2012 by Adrian Bishop 0 Comments

Green light for jumping spiders

This cute H. adonsoni jumping spider shows four of his eight eyes via Shutterstock The zebra spiders and their allies (the Salticidae group) are jumping spiders that catch their prey...

On Jan 28, 2012 by Dave Armstrong 0 Comments

Satellite mapping could help prevent coral reef decline

Belize barrier reef via Shutterstock A marine ecologist says new satellite mapping should be introduced to help identify and halt the rapid decline of coral reefs. Phil Dustan has been...

On Jan 27, 2012 by Adrian Bishop 0 Comments

Ubehebe holds fire (in Death Valley)

Death Valley's half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater turns out to have been created 800 years ago - more recently than generally thought; Credit: Brent Goehring/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Holding out for 6000 years,...

On Jan 23, 2012 by Dave Armstrong 0 Comments

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