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Review: Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
newscientist.com — The first "why" that struck me on seeing Why Evolution is True was why do we need yet another book on evolution? There are lots of good ones out there already and nothing less than a mountain of evidence to support the reality of evolution by natural selection.More… (General Sciences)
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Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008
blog.wired.com — Scientists had plenty of reasons to celebrate in 2008. After decades of work, researchers made rat stem cells, built the first memristor, and watched a language evolve like an organism. But none of those accomplishments impressed us as much as the breakthroughs on this list. From stem cell therapy to finding ice on Mars.More… (General Sciences)
BullHunterToday (January 5th) Is The Most Stressful Day Of The Year
telegraph.co.uk — Today is the most stressful day of the year, according to researchers. A combination of the cold weather, economic gloom and end to Christmas festivities will leave workers battling the January blues.More… (General Sciences)
ScottMcIntyreScientists Unlock Secrets Of Australia's Giant 30kg Koalas
independent.co.uk — Hundreds of thousands of years ago, giant versions of Australia's unique wildlife stalked the continent. There were kangaroos up to 3m tall and enormous wallabies, wombats and echidnas. There were also koalas: larger and weightier than the creatures sometimes seen today in eucalyptus trees.More… (General Sciences)
Military Hoping Chat Bots Will Replace Deployed Parents
informationweek.com — The U.S. Department of Defense is looking to develop virtual parents to comfort children when moms and dads on active duty aren't available to talk.More… (General Sciences)
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Nanodiamonds point to comet catastrophe
washingtonpost.com — Scientists have long blamed climate change for the extinctions, for it was 12,900 years ago that the planet's emergence from the Ice Age came to a halt, reverting to glacial conditions for 1,500 years, an epoch known as the Younger Dryas. Now the proponents of this apocalyptic scenario say they have found a new line of evidence: nanodiamonds. More… (General Sciences)
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60 Minutes: Mind Reading No Longer Science Fiction
cbsnews.com — Neuroscience has learned much about the brain's activity and its link to certain thoughts. As Lesley Stahl reports, it may now be possible, on a basic level, to read a person's mind.More… (General Sciences)
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Obama Offers New Hope for Science in America
thestar.com — When President-elect Barack Obama showed off Steven Chu, the Nobel-prize winning physicist he picked to be his energy secretary, you could almost hear the American scientific community exhale, loudly & deeply – thousands of researchers, from Berkeley to MIT and everywhere in between, breathing a long, satisfying collective sigh of relief.More… (General Sciences)
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New transplant organ is 'repaired' and given to patient
dailymail.co.uk — Surgeons have for the first time repaired an injured donor lung and transplanted it into a patient.More… (General Sciences)
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How Hunting is Driving Evolution in Reverse
newsweek.com — When hunting is severe enough to outstrip other threats to survival, the unsought, middling individuals make out better than the stronger alpha animals, and the species changes. "Survival of the fittest" is still the rule, but the "fit" begin to look unlike what you might expect.More… (General Sciences)
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Green Algae Bloom Process Could Stop Global Warming
cleantechnica.com — A team of UK scientists have discovered a natural process that could delay, or even end, the threat of global warming.More… (General Sciences)
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Stonehenge was 'giant concert venue'
telegraph.co.uk — A university professor who is an expert in sound and a part-time DJ believes Stonehenge was created as a dance arena for listening to "trance-style" music.More… (General Sciences)
Where You Sit On A Bus Can Define Your Personality
telegraph.co.uk — Where you sit on a bus can define your personality, according to a psychologist. Forward-minded people tend to sit at the front of the top deck, according to Dr Tom Fawcett of Salford University, the independent-minded in the middle and those with a rebellious streak at the rear.More… (General Sciences)
Scientists Discover True Love
women.timesonline.co.uk — Brain scans have proved that a small number of couples can respond with as much passion after 20 years as most people exhibit only in the first flush of love...researchers nicknamed the couples “swans” because they have similar mental “love maps” to animals that mate for life such as swans, voles and grey foxes. More… (General Sciences)
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