biology
- arstechnica.com 520-million-year-old larva fossil reveals the origins of arthropods
Early arthropod development illuminated by a microscopic fossil.
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- www.discoverwildlife.com Chimpanzees seen eating medicinal plants to help cure diarrhoea and infections
Chimps have a basic awareness of the healing properties of plants, according to a new study.
- boingboing.net Here's why eggs are chipping more when you crack them
Katie Notopoulos observed that eggshells chipped more in recent years so she asked a scientist to explain what changed.
- www.businessinsider.com A lone stingray mysteriously became pregnant in an aquarium. Scientists now think a male shark could be responsible.
North Carolina aquarium staff were puzzled by when a stingray became pregnant in a male-free tank.
- nautil.us A Peculiar Fish and an Evolutionary Mystery
What we can learn from the macabre diets of a curious species of cichlids.
- arstechnica.com Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from?
There are competing theories about the origin of the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.
- www.wired.com Magnetic Minerals May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry
The preferred “handedness” of biomolecules could have emerged from interactions between electrons and magnetic surfaces on primordial Earth, new research suggests.
- slate.com The Truth About Golden Retrievers Could Change How We Think About Dogs for Good
Some vets are spotting an alarming trend.
- www.scientificamerican.com Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why
Cats have attained evolutionary perfection
- www.businessinsider.com Scientists have found the great white sharks that fled for their lives from gruesome liver-eating killer whale attacks
Great white sharks disappeared from their natural habitat in South Africa after attacks by liver-eating killer whales. Scientists just found them.
- boingboing.net Do spiders dream? New study finds evidence of REM-like movement in arachnids | Boing Boing
Researchers at the University of Konstanz in Germany have been seeking the answer to the age-old question: Do spiders dream of webbed-up sheep? Or at least, do spiders dream in general? And so far …
- www.businessinsider.com A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies
Scientists on Thursday published a paper identifying and naming the worm, which they said belonged to an unidentifiable species.
- science.ku.dk Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks
No, oxygen didn’t catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth’s first multicellular organisms. The result defies a 70-year-old assumption about what caused an explosion of oceanic fauna hundreds of millions of years ago.
