Michael Windelspechtflipped into Advances in GeneticsFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoA koala's diet would kill most mammals. Their genome reveals how they survivesciencemag.orgImagine being able to sniff or lick a chunk of cheese and immediately know its nutritional value. That's what koalas do when they forage on their …
Michael Windelspechtflipped into Science !Some monkeys in Panama may have just stumbled into the Stone Agenewscientist.com - Colin BarrasAnother non-human primate has entered the Stone Age – the fourth type known to have done so. One population of white-faced capuchins living in Panama …
Michael Windelspechtflipped into Space!NASA's next Mars mission launches Saturday: Everything you need to knowverified_publisherMashable - Miriam KramerLet's go to Mars to look at some rocks. On Saturday, NASA will launch its next mission to Mars. This time the lander, known as InSight, is focused squarely on learning more about the inner-workings of the red planet. The space agency's InSight lander is expected to take about seven months between …
Michael Windelspechtflipped into The Changing ClimateOxygen-Free "Dead Zone" as Big as Scotland Discovered in Arabian SeaInverse - Kevin Litman-NavarroIn the Gulf of Oman, the water is still. But tranquility isn’t always a positive sign — in fact, the gulf is less Garden of Eden than it is …
Michael Windelspechtflipped into Evidence of Evolution700,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Point to Mysterious Human RelativeNational Geographic - Michael GreshkoSomeone butchered a rhinoceros in the Philippines hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans arrived—but who? Stone tools found in the Philippines predate the arrival of modern humans to the islands by roughly 600,000 years—but researchers aren’t sure who made them. The eye-popping …
Michael Windelspechtflipped into Science !Plants 'talk to' each other through their rootsverified_publisherThe Guardian - Hannah Devlin Science correspondentScientists studying corn seedlings believe that they send signals under the soil, advising each other of the proximity of other plants Plants use their roots to “listen in” on their neighbours, according to research that adds to evidence that plants have their own unique forms of communication. The …
