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Dinosaur relative’s genome linked to mammals – ScienceBlog.com
Scientists from the University of Adelaide and South Australian Museum have collaborated with Otago University, New Zealand and a global team to sequence the genome of the tuatara – a rare reptile whose ancestors once roamed the earth with dinosaurs. The … Continue reading
Finishing the NYC Marathon While Paralyzed
Hannah Gavios runs using crutches. The native New Yorker calls it “crutching” or “going for a crutch.” An avid runner since high school, Gavios suffered a spinal cord injury after a horrific attack in 2016 that left her partially paralyzed. … Continue reading
Protecting the Planet with Earth’s Guardians
We can all find small ways to make our world a better place. In the fourth episode of “That’s Amazing”‘ we meet: a boar hunter preserving tradition and protecting birds in the wettest place on earth, an artist who transforms … Continue reading
MOBY – ” MY ONLY LOVE “
The deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is a constant threat to Brazilian fauna, flora and indigenous communities. In this new music video for the DJ and activist Moby, we brought the forest characters to life in order to raise awareness … Continue reading
Chirp to arms: musicians record album to help conserve endangered birds
Ten-track record samples recordings of endangered, vulnerable or near threatened birds by artists from same country A black catbird. The black catbird’s song was worked on by the Belizean group the Garifuna Collective, led by another keen birder-cum-musician, Al Ovando. … Continue reading
Reaching Earth’s Corners
In the final episode of “That’s Amazing,” meet two sisters whose ambitious science experiment took them up and out of this world, a woman climbing to outrageous heights in order to clean the nation’s wind turbines, and a photographer wading … Continue reading
Study reveals exciting speech processing similarities between humans and dogs
Dog brains, just as human brains, process speech hierarchically: intonations at lower, word meanings at higher stages. Human brains process lexical meaning separately from the emotional prosody of speech at higher levels of the processing hierarchy. Dog brains can also … Continue reading
Paper Wildlife Sculptures by Artist Diana Beltrán Herrera Document Nature’s Most Striking Details
In 2012, Bristol-based artist Diana Beltrán Herrera (previously) began sculpting impeccably layered paper birds and other wildlife as a way to record her surroundings. Her lifelike pieces continuously have captured nature’s finely detailed and minuscule elements, like the fibrous texture of … Continue reading
The mysterious echo from the Sun: the IBEX Ribbon | Unsolved Mystery in Physics
Go to http://brilliant.org/DrBecky and sign up for free. The first 200 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. In 2009 the IBEX satellite detected an excess of atoms reflected back from a particular … Continue reading
Wildlife revival: Conservation wins for tigers and gorillas
As mountain gorillas number more than 1,000 and India’s tiger populations rebound, recovery efforts reap their rewards. Nick Clark As we mark World Conservation Day this week, it is a good time for some heartening news from the environmental … Continue reading
Earth’s atmosphere rings like a giant bell, say researchers – Physics World
Study confirms 200-year-old prediction by Pierre-Simon Laplace The Earth’s entire atmosphere vibrates like a giant bell, with various large-scale resonant waves travelling in both directions around the globe. That is the conclusion of scientists in Japan and the US, who … Continue reading
How Plants Became Meat Eaters
Carnivorous plants capture the imagination because they are so unlike any other plant with their elaborate and sometimes beautiful traps. Seeing as how plants are defined by their ability to create their own food how did some of them take … Continue reading
