Shedding Light On The Cosmic Skeleton

Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 7:23 AM EST (Science Daily)

Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years away from us.

science, astronomy

Oldest known spider's web found in amber

Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 4:46 AM EST (PhysOrg.com)

Pieces of amber containing parts of a spider's web have been found in East Sussex and dated back to the Cretaceous period 140 million years ago, which makes it the oldest spider's web known.

science, palaeontology, spiders

Bacteria 'launch a shield' to resist attack

Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 6:33 AM EST (EurekAlert!)

Bacteria that cause chronic lung infections can communicate with each other to form a deadly shield against the body's natural defenses.

science, bacteria, microbiology

First Evidence For A Second Breeding Season Among Migratory Songbirds

Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:02 AM EDT (Science Daily)

Biologists for the first time have documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South America.

science, biology, birds, ornithology

Ancient 'monster' insect offers Halloween inspiration

Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:28 AM EDT (PhysOrg.com)

A single, incredibly well-preserved specimen of the tiny but scary-looking fly was preserved for eternity in Burmese amber, and it had a small horn emerging from the top of its head, topped by three eyes that would have given it the ability to see predators coming.

science, palaeontology, insects

Killer Algae

Seeded on Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:48 AM EDT ()

Supervolcanoes and cosmic impacts get all the terrible glory for causing mass extinctions, but a new theory suggests lowly algae may be the killer behind the world's great species annihilations.

science, biology, algae

Scientists find fossil bones of smallest dinosaur

Seeded on Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:20 AM EDT (PhysOrg.com)

A new dinosaur species, Fruitadens haagarorum, is the smallest dinosaur ever discovered from North America. The tiny Fruitadens weighed less than a kilogram (two pounds) and was just 70 cm (28 inches) in length.

science, palaeontology

A Different Kind of Whale

Seeded on Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:33 AM EDT (ScienceBlogs)

During the past 30 years the evolution of fully aquatic whales from terrestrial ancestors has gone from one of the most enigmatic evolutionary transitions to one of the best documented.

science, whales, palaeontology

Chinese fossil find gives clue to ear's evolution - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:30 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Researchers digging in north eastern China say they have discovered the fossil of a previously unknown chipmunk-sized mammal that could help explain how human hearing evolved.

science, palaeontology

The First Diplodocid From Asia

Seeded on Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:41 AM EDT (www3.interscience.wiley.com)

An isolated anterior caudal vertebra from the Qingshan (= Ch'ing shan) Formation (Early Cretaceous) of Shandong Province, China, is redescribed and shown to be an advanced diplodocid sauropod.

science, palaeontology, diplodocid

The earliest known venomous animals recognized among conodonts

Seeded on Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:12 AM EDT (app.pan.pl)

Conodonts, a large group of tiny extinct marine animals ranging in age from the Late Cambrian to Late Triassic (c. 500 to 200 MYA), are usually considered as jawless vertebrates.

science, palaeontology, venom

New type of flying reptile discovered

Seeded on Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:36 AM EDT (EurekAlert!)

An international group of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) have identified a new type of flying reptile – providing the first clear evidence of an unusual and controversial type of evolution.

science, palaeontology

Israel M. Gelfand, 96, Mathematics Giant, Dies in New Jersey - Obituary

Seeded on Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:56 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Israel M. Gelfand, one of the giants of 20th-century mathematics, whose work cleared paths for other thinkers in fields as diverse as physics and medical imaging, died on Monday in New Brunswick, N.J. He was 96.

science, mathematics, obituary

First 'mainly vegetarian' spider described

Seeded on Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:12 AM EDT (EurekAlert!)

The 40,000 or so spiders that have been described are generally known as strict predators, trapping their prey in elaborate webs or hunting them down directly.

science, biology, spiders

First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home Of The Titanoboa -- World's Biggest Snake

Seeded on Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:14 AM EDT (Science Daily)

ScienceDaily (Oct. 13, 2009) — Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest.

science, palaeontology, snakes

Unexpected amber find rewrites botanical history

Seeded on Sun Oct 4, 2009 9:31 AM EDT (PhysOrg.com)

An unexpected discovery made by Macquarie University PhD student Sargent Bray about the origin and nature of chemical compounds contained in ancient amber has changed our understanding of when modern flowering plants first began to evolve.

science, palaeontology, botany, amber

Eating Sweets Every Day In Childhood 'Increases Adult Aggression'

Seeded on Thu Oct 1, 2009 9:53 AM EDT (Science Daily)

Children who eat sweets and chocolate every day are more likely to be violent as adults, according to new research.

science, children, development

Fungi-Infected Violins Best Stradivarius

Seeded on Thu Oct 1, 2009 9:51 AM EDT (Discovery.com)

A soggy wooden board carpeted in soft white fungi doesn't look like much, but in the right hands it can become a world class violin. According to a recent sound test before about 180 people, two fungi infested violins bested a multi-million dollar Stradivarius.

science, acoustics, stradivarius

Sharks swarmed on ancient sea monster

Seeded on Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:39 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

Remains of a shark-bitten, 85-million-year-old plesiosaur reveal that around seven sharks likely consumed the enormous dinosaur-era marine reptile in a feeding frenzy, leaving some of their shark teeth stuck in the plesiosaur's bones, according to a new study.

science, sharks, palaeontology, plesiosaur

A tiny tyrannosaur

Seeded on Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:38 AM EDT (EurekAlert!)

When you think of Tyrannosaurus rex, a small set of striking physical traits comes to mind: an oversized skull with powerful jaws, tiny forearms, and the muscular hind legs of a runner.

science, palaeontology, dinosaurs, tyrannosaur

First solid evidence for a rocky exoplanet

Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:54 AM EDT (EurekAlert!)

The longest set of HARPS measurements ever made has firmly established the nature of the smallest and fastest-orbiting exoplanet known, CoRoT-7b, revealing its mass as five times that of Earth's.

science, astronomy

Bathing, but Not Alone

Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:43 AM EDT (The New York Times)

There are some things it is better just not to think about. Like the 10,000 bacteria you inhale with each breath in the average office building. Or the 10 million bacteria in each glass of tap water.

science, bacteria

Longest Lightning Storm: Saturn Sets Record

Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:46 AM EDT (space.com)

A powerful lightning storm brewing in Saturn's atmosphere since January has become the solar system's longest continuously observed thunderstorm, astronomers have announced.

science, astronomy, storm, solar-system, saturn

How Stingrays Sense Their Surroundings

Seeded on Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:25 AM EDT (jeb.biologists.org)

In some ways, stingrays are the Cinderellas of the elasmobranch world. Compared with their better-studied cousins, the sharks, little is known about the ways that stingrays sense their environment.

science, biology, stingrays

Medieval News: Ring belonging to 15th century mayor of Bristol discovered

Seeded on Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:09 AM EDT (medievalnews.blogspot.com)

An inquest in Bristol has ruled that a 500 year old silver ring, found on a medieval settlement site, must to be sold to a local museum. The ring is thought to have once belonged to a 15th century mayor of Bristol.

science, archaeology, ring

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