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In 1706, Mr Patrick Blair, a Scottish doctor, was asked to lead a dissection of an elephant that had died near Dundee, and he subsequently published a lengthy 1710 account that was the first detailed anatomical description of an elephant.
This Artificial Rat Brain Has 12 Seconds of Short-term Memory Ashwin Vishwanathan, Guo-Qiang Bi and Henry C. Zeringue, University of Pittsburgh
Scientists Create Tiny Artificial Brain That Exhibits 12 Seconds of Short Term Memory | Popular Science
‘Lefties’ more gifted ‘a myth’ (Science Alert)
Left-handed people consistently perform worse than right-handed people in measures of cognitive ability, or IQ, with the ‘level of disability’ equivalent to being prematurely born.
Italian government officials have accused the country's top seismologist of manslaughter, after failing to predict a natural disaster that struck Italy in 2009, a massive devastating earthquake that killed 308 people. Enzo Boschi, the president of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), will face trial along with six other scientists and technicians, after failing to predict the future and the impending disaster. Earthquakes are, of course, nearly impossible to predict, seismologists say.
Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake - FoxNews.com
Scientists in the US produced a clutch of antihelium particles, the antimatter equivalents of the helium nucleus, after smashing gold ions together nearly 1bn times at close to the speed of light.
US scientists get glimpse of antihelium | Science | The Guardian
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EU to invest 6.4 billion in research
BRUSSELS - Research organisations, universities and industry, will receive a sum of €6.4 billion next year in the European Commission's largest ever allocation for research and innovation.
Primordial Sperm Gene Found | Wired Science | Wired.com
A gene involved in the production of sperm is shared by almost all living animals, including sea anemones, worms, insects, marine invertebrates, fish and humans. The finding suggests the ability to produce sperm arose just once, 600 million years ago, and has been conserved through all subsequent animal evolution.Why is the news media comfortable with lying about science?
The year is only a couple of weeks old, but it's already been a strange one for science news.Liberdade poética - Foto de esfera verde microscópica envolta por fibras de polímeros foi batizada de 'Save our Earth.
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An extremely small RNA molecule created by a University of Colorado at Boulder team can catalyze a key reaction needed to synthesize proteins, the building blocks of life. The findings could be a substantial step toward understanding "the very origin of Earthly life," the lead researcher contends.
CU Team Discovers Tiny RNA Molecule With Big Implications for th
BBC - Earth News - Ants are first animal known to navigate by st
I get the feeling that whatever task these ants have to solve, they succeed Dr Markus Knaden, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical EcologyMembers of one damselfish species use facial patterns of speckles and swooshes to identify the fish species they regularly attack, researchers report in an upcoming issue of Current Biology . These markings show up only in ultraviolet light, says visual ecologist Ulrike Siebeck of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.