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Vaclav Smil: "The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking"

lundi 13 janvier 2014 — Energy & Sustainability,Mind & Brain,Space,More Science,Evolution,Health,Technology

Vaclav Smil (Image: Wikipedia Commons) That’s Vaclav Smil, the prolific University of Manitoba thinker writing in this month’s issue of Scientific American . When Smil says something... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Shark Species Thought to Be Extinct Found in Fish Market [Slide Show]

lundi 13 janvier 2014 — More Science, Biology, Society & Policy, Energy & Sustainability, Environment, Evolution

After more than a century, the smoothtooth blacktip shark has been rediscovered -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Shark Species Thought to Be Extinct Found in Fish Market [Slide Show]

lundi 13 janvier 2014 — More Science,Environment,Society & Policy,Energy & Sustainability,Evolution,Biology,More Science

After his 1902 trip to Yemen, scholar and naturalist Wilhelm Hein returned with a variety of plants and animals, which he donated to the Vienna Museum. One of these specimens, a shark, sat unnoticed... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Shark Species Thought to Be Extinct Found in Fish Market [Slide Show]

lundi 13 janvier 2014 — More Science, Biology, Society & Policy, Energy & Sustainability, Environment, Evolution

After more than a century, the smoothtooth blacktip shark has been rediscovered -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Love Wine and Tea? Scientists Discover Plant Part Whence Their Pucker Springs

dimanche 12 janvier 2014 — Evolution

Teas made from variously fermented leaves. Left to right: Green, yellow, oolong, and black. Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Click for source. When you take a sip of red wine or black tea,... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

North America: land of obscure, freaky voles

dimanche 12 janvier 2014 — Evolution

Arborimus longicaudus, based on a photo in Nowak (1999). Image by Darren Naish, colouring by Gareth Monger. CC BY. As a European person, I find European voles (and, to a degree, Asian voles) pretty... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Why drug discovery is hard - Part 3: Vacuum cleaners that make Sir James Dyson weep

vendredi 10 janvier 2014 — Evolution,Mind & Brain,More Science,Health,Technology

P-glycoprotein (PgP): A combination of vacuum cleaner and high-powered pump that is designed to eject drug molecules out of the cell( Image: Wikipedia Commons) This is part 3 of a series of posts... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Octopus Arms, Human Tongues Intertwine for Science

vendredi 10 janvier 2014 — Evolution,More Science,Health,Mind & Brain

Image courtesy of Flickr/Joe Parks Unless you’ve eaten sannakji, the Korean specialty of semi-live octopus, you might never have had a squirming octopus arm in your mouth. [More] -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Fish Go Birding [Video]

jeudi 9 janvier 2014 — More Science, Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

Tigerfish have now been confirmed to swallow swallows after grabbing them out of the air over a lake in South Africa -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Fish Go Birding [Video]

jeudi 9 janvier 2014 — Evolution,More Science,Evolutionary Biology,Biology,Evolution

The waters of the African lake seem calm and peaceful. A few migrant swallows flit near the surface. Suddenly, leaping from the water, a fish grabs one of the famously speedy birds straight out of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American