Spiders have been listening in on us this whole time
Gone are the days when you can gossip freely about your friends in the arachnid world. They don't have ears and were thought to mostly interpret the world around them through sight and touch, but scientists have now discovered that spiders possess the ability to hear over relatively long distances, a sense that appears finely tuned to recognizing the sounds of incoming enemies. While spiders don't "hear" per se, it has long been established that they can sense vibrations through the hairs in th..>> view original"Drowning islands", "climate refugees" and other warming lies
It is incredible - so telling - that politicians and journalists still peddle the lie that global warming is drowning the low-lying atoll islands. As I've pointed out, the evidence shows 40 per cent are actually growing in size and 40 per cent are stable. Now Bjorn Lomborg presents more data exposing this hoax. Using historic aerial photographs and high-resolution satellite imagery, Auckland University scientists Murray Ford and Paul Kench recently analyzed shoreline changes on six atolls and tw..>> view originalING Groep NV Reduces Stake in Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD)
ING Groep NV cut its position in Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) by 85.0% during the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 132,224 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock after selling 748,634 shares during the period. ING Groep NV’s holdings in Gilead Sciences were worth $11,022,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Other institutional investors have also recently added to ..>> view originalScientists just broke a fusion world record - and it lifts the bar for clean energy potential
Scientists have set a new world record for plasma pressure - the 'key ingredient' for producing energy from nuclear fusion - which means this clean and sustainable energy source is closer to our grasp than ever before. The new record stands at 2.05 atmospheres - a 15 percent jump over the previous record of 1.77 atmospheres. Both this record and the last were set at the custom-built Alcator C-Mod reactor at MIT. While a viable nuclear fusion reactor ready to power our homes is still a long way..>> view originalForget holograms, here's a 'floating e-ink' display
That holds the JANUS objects in place, but to make them spin and show different colors at different times is something else entirely. What seems to be the key to the rotation is that the spheres are coated with titanium dioxide -- also used to purify air when mixed with concrete -- which, when a exposed to an electrical field causes them to rotate."JOLED could be like having a floating e-ink display that can also change its shape," researcher Deepak Sahoo said in a canned press release quote.Ma..>> view originalGreat Barrier Reef climate history unlocked as CSIRO maps offshore Queensland Basin
Great Barrier Reef climate history unlocked as CSIRO maps offshore Queensland Basin Updated October 15, 2016 16:38:18 Scientists from the CSIRO are using cutting-edge technology to map the seafloor of the Queensland Basin to understand how the Great Barrier Reef responded to past climate change events.While the reef is one of the world's most studied ecosystems, its depths could still hold many surprises, including how resilient it might be in the future.Scientists on t..>> view originalQuantum dots bring practical solar-harvesting windows a step closer
The solar panels people are most familiar with are the dark, photovoltaic (PV) cells often seen on roofs, but strides have been made in the last few years to develop transparent versions that could eventually be fitted into windows and other glass surfaces. Known as luminescent solar concentrators (LSC), these devices so far haven't proven as efficient or scalable as regular panels, but now a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has demonstrated a new technique that could make for larger, more..>> view originalWhale calf rescued from shark net as debate rages over NSW beach safety
The Baird government's decision to drop its opposition to shark nets for the state's northern beaches ignored recommendations of one of its own departments and the scientific consensus, experts say.The unintended impacts of shark mesh was on show on Saturday, with a juvenile humpback whale becoming entangled in a net near Coolangatta on the Gold Coast. The calf's mother helped keep the animal near the surface long enough for a patrol to arrive and cut the whale free. More News Video..>> view originalAncient wingless wasp, now extinct, identified as one of a kind
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have identified a parasitic wasp without wings preserved in 100-million-year-old amber from what is now the Hukawng Valley in Myanmar on the continent of Asia and created a new family for the specimen, called Aptenoperissidae. The well preserved insect, named Aptenoperissus burmanicus, is now extinct. It seems to borrow parts of its anatomy from a range of other insects but belongs to no other family ever identified on Earth. It probably crawled al..>> view original
Thursday, October 20, 2016
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