Friday, January 25, 2013

Science Of Interest

[Recent links of scientific interest, and by recent I mean since March, 2011]

-SciAm: Bison versus Mammoths: New Culprit in the Disappearance of North America's Giants

-NewSci: Vikings' crystal clear method of navigation

-NPR: New 'Giant' Species Of Crayfish Found In Tennessee Creek

-Wired: Shark Teeth Found Stuck in Ancient Ammonite Shell

-80Beats: Scientists Find First Evidence That Weather Affects Movement of Tectonic Plates

-SurprisingScience: Gigantic Plume Beneath Yellowstone Now Even More Gigantic

-The Rach 3 recordings page

-Wired: Gut-Bacteria Mapping Finds Three Global Varieties

-80Beats: Ancient Stone Structures Herded Gazelles to Mass Slaughter [like Lake Huron?]

-SciAm: How Science Stopped BP's Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

-Time: More Proof That Vikings Were First to America
...a small group of Icelanders — roughly 350 in total — carried a lineage known as C1, usually seen only in Asians and Native Americans.

-PhysOrg: New theory proposed to explain Pioneer probe gravitational anomaly

-Wired: Lava Lamp Action Helped Create Grand Canyon

-USGS: US Topo – A New National Map Series

-Dr. Jeff: America's Achilles' heel: the Mississippi River's Old River Control Structure

-Spacenews: U.S. Weather Satellites Saw Tornado Swarm Coming 5 Days Out

-TR: Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake

-Wired: Hot, Rocky Pancake Formed Hawaiian Islands

-Wired: Humans Could Have Geomagnetic Sight

-SciAm: The Behavioral Immune System

-EarthSky: Discovery of new force driving Earth’s tectonic plates

-BBC: Gravity satellite yields 'Potato Earth' view

-EarthSky: MIT discovery: A drug to cure nearly any virus

-SciAm: Solar System Likely Once Had Another Gas-Giant Planet

-Wired: Recent Human Evolution Detected in Quebec Town History

-Wired: Ozone Gas May Signal Coming Earthquakes

-EarthSky: Was a fifth gas giant ejected from our solar system?

-Wired: Multicellular Life Evolves in Laboratory

-PhysOrg: Anthropologists clarify link between Asians and early Native-Americans: A tiny mountainous region in southern Siberia may have been the genetic source of the earliest Native Americans, according to new research by a University of Pennsylvania-led team of anthropologists.

-WaPo: Radical theory of first Americans places Stone Age Europeans in Delmarva 20,000 years ago

-Smithsonian | Surprising Science: Clovis People Hunted Canada’s Camels

-EarthSky: Correlation between tornadoes and activity recorded by seismographs
[very interesting that seismographs picked up noise before the tornadoes formed]

-Atlantic: Superweeds: A Long-Predicted Problem for GM Crops Has Arrived

-PhysOrg: How religion promotes confidence about paternity [in other words, the world's major religions were founded to keep control of women's sexuality]

-PhysOrg: Research finds Stonehenge was monument marking unification of Britain

-Wired: Spectacularly Preserved Fossil Suggests Most Dinosaurs Were Feathered

-Discover/80Beats: Star Formation is Coming to a Close

-Wired: Top Scientific Discoveries of 2012

-Ars: No absolutes: How shifting plates completely remake the Earth

-SciAm: The Most Fascinating Human Evolution Discoveries of 2012