-
Recent Posts
- NASA’s JWST just saw two new planetary systems forming #space #astronomy #science
- Albert Square is open…. mostly
- Bakewell in the Derbyshire Peak District
- Menai Bridge
- If a GERMAN Invented English Idioms 😂😂 #germanlanguage #german #comedy #funny
- Should their country leave the UK behind?
- “Ti regalo un fiore” (“I give you a flower”) was created by the Italian street artist Cheone (Cosimo Caiffa)
- One of my favourite buildings, St. Pancras, London
Archives
Categories
Category Archives: Nature
We Were Wrong About Wolves and Wolf Packs This Whole Time
Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about about something important in regards to wolves Article: https://sciencenorway.no/ulv/wolf-pac… Papers: https://brage.inn.no/inn-xmlui/handle… https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/h… https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/vi… https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/vi… https://wolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2… https://books.google.no/books?id=_mXH… https://phys.org/news/2021-04-wolf-do… Images: L. David Mech – Wolves of Isle … Continue reading
Meet Our Nitrogen-Breathing Bacterial Relative
[…] Oxygen is pretty great stuff, but this recently discovered organism couldn’t care less about oxygen. It breathes nitrogen and may offer a window into how the types of cells in OUR bodies may have evolved billions of years ago. … Continue reading
Blend up a hydra, and its cells will coalesce back into a full creature. How? | Aeon
A relative of jellyfish, the rice-sized freshwater creatures known as hydra are, at first glance, rather basic – all tentacles and mouth, with lives dedicated to nabbing passing prey. But, as scientists have gradually been discovering over centuries, these simple … Continue reading
Why Vultures Don’t Get Sick When Eating Dead and Rotting Things
[…] In this video: In the video today we’re looking at why vultures can happily eat various dead and rotting things, even when said flesh is disease ridden, all without apparent negative effect on themselves. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.p… … Continue reading
Homochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules
[…] Molecules of biological origin always have a fixed handedness or chirality. For example you only ever see right handed sugars and left handed amino acids in nature. But why? Credits: Meteorite image – Art Bromage – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… RNA and … Continue reading
Homochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules
Molecules of biological origin always have a fixed handedness or chirality. For example you only ever see right handed sugars and left handed amino acids in nature. But why? Credits: Meteorite image – Art Bromage – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… RNA and DNA … Continue reading
The Emergence of a New Queen Bee | Medium
Science Uncovered Articles and excerpts from Oxford University Press that… Did you know that the daughters of a queen bee engage in a deadly fight for succession? To celebrate World Bee Day on May 20th this year, read an … Continue reading
The Otherworldly Sounds of Ice | Kottke
The holes drilled into Arctic, Antarctic, and glacial ice to harvest ice cores can be up to 2 miles deep. One of my all-time favorite sounds is created by dropping ice down into one of these holes — it makes … Continue reading
Grey seals on the foamy beaches of Bardsey Island | The Kid Should See This
On Bardsey Island in Wales, the grey seals lounge on the winter beaches. In December of 2015, local wildlife photographer and naturalist Ben Porter filmed the seals on the sand and in the sea foam that’s sometimes caused by stormy … Continue reading
msamba 