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Graham Hartland ن sur Twitter : ".@Perapiteticus this is also fascinating #human #science... Daversa_g : The blood vessels in the human ... Mitosis and Meiosis by JRO ft Lil Sis. 2013-11-12 12.50.00.jpg. Realscientists : Another nerdy #science t shirt... David Miranda detainment under Section 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Can we learn to love vultures? 11 September 2013Last updated at 20:45 ET Kerri Wolter explains the impact a decline in vultures could have on humans Vultures have suffered something of an image problem over the years. Eating the bodies of dead animals has never attracted us to them. But now a project - supported by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - is trying to turn round how we think about the birds, which are facing new threats, as the BBC's Kevin Bishop reports from Johannesburg. Cape vultures swoop down from South Africa's blue spring sky over the Magaliesberg Cliffs. Dozens skim over the dry, brown grassland to a "vulture restaurant".

Continue reading the main story “Start Quote All you need is for one poisoned rhino, or one poisoned elephant, and you wipe out 600 vultures” End QuoteKerri WolterVulPro A carcass has been laid out in the sun, flies buzzing around it and crows and egrets pecking at its skin. Step by step, each gently-landed claw accompanied by a cautious scan of the area for danger. Sinister threat. DNA study suggests hunting did not kill off mammoth. 10 September 2013Last updated at 21:30 ET By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News The traditional view of the woolly mammoth as a hardy, abundant species will have to change Researchers have found evidence to suggest that climate change, rather than humans, was the main factor that drove the woolly mammoth to extinction. A DNA analysis shows that the number of creatures began to decrease much earlier than previously thought as the world's climate changed. It also shows that there was a distinct population of mammoth in Europe that died out around 30,000 years ago.

The results have published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The view many researchers had about woolly mammoths is that they were a hardy, abundant species that thrived during their time on the planet. But according to the scientist who led the research, Dr Love Dalen of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, the study shifts that view. The researchers analysed samples DNA from 300 remains “Start Quote. Official Texas Review: "Creation Science" Should Be Incorporated into Every Biology Textbook.

Behind closed doors, textbook reviewers appointed by the Texas State Board of Education are pushing to inject creationism into teaching materials that will be adopted statewide in high schools this year, according to new documents obtained by watchdog groups. Records show that the textbook reviewers made ideological objections to material on evolution and climate change in science textbooks from at least seven publishers, including several of the nation's largest publishing houses. Failing to obtain a review panel's top rating can make it harder for publishers to sell their textbooks to school districts, and can even lead the state to reject the books altogether. "I feel very firmly that 'creation science' based on Biblical principles should be incorporated into every Biology book that is up for adoption.

" Here are five striking examples of comments submitted to publishers by the state review panels urging them to water down scientific teachings. BBC Nature - Smart approach to house spider survey. 13 September 2013Last updated at 01:09 By Ella Davies Reporter, BBC Nature The summer heat might be fading but things are hotting up for house spiders.

If you're not afraid of them, autumn is the best time of year to see one of the arachnids as males come out of their usual hiding places in search of a mate. And according to the Society of Biology, which has launched a new recording scheme, the spiders may have started early. Thanks to a smartphone app they have already received 3,000 reports - including sightings in August - but there have been few previous studies of this kind for accurate comparison. Dr Geoff Oxford from the University of York and the British Arachnological Society cites his paper published in 1987 that suggested sightings of house spiders peaked in late September but the spiders' movements were not recorded earlier in the year, so their exact behavioural patterns remain to be revealed.

"We are trying to collect as much data as possible from around the UK. Met Office in the Mail on Sunday | Met Office News Blog. An article appears in the Mail on Sunday today focusing on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) which it bills this as the ‘world’s most authoritative climate study’. It’s fair to say that AR5 is expected to be the most comprehensive review of climate change science to date. The first part of the report, from its Working Group I (WGI), has been worked on by more than 800 scientists from around the world who have assessed more than 9,000 scientific publications and taken into account more than 50,000 comments from over 1000 expert reviewers.

The WGI report is now in its final stages and the major conclusions will be finalised and released on 27 September. It is at that point that we should debate its findings and their implications. Further parts of the report, from its Working Group II and III, as well as a final version of the whole report will be published next year. There is no scientific evidence to support this claim. UK Energy Watch - Electricity: Real-Time Data. Electricity: Real-time Data Data provided by Elexon under licence. Indicative only; no warranty given, no liability accepted. To further exploit this data contact Elexon. Electricity Generation by Category ? ? Updated: 23 April 2014 14:40:00 Settlement Date: 23 April 2014 Settlement Period: 30 Information - Electricity Generation by Category Electricity in the UK is generated from: Large power stations within the UK. Large power stations can be categorised by which fuel they use to generate electricity, as shown in the table. Information - Generation Type Power production within the UK is split into categories, depending on the source of the electricity.

Note that most energy in the UK is poduced by burning fossil fuels. Information - Power The power being generated now by each category. 1 MW = 1,000,000 Watts Compact fluorescent light bulb One household energy efficient lightbulb will usually use between 5 Watts and 15 Watts of power. Information - CO2 Emissions How are CO2 emissions calculated? 'Tanned' whales' sun response gives clues to human ageing.

30 August 2013Last updated at 00:48 ET By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News A blue whale’s head and tail fluke tend to be uniformly grey but their dorsal skin is usually mottled and can be quite pale. The way that whales react to sunlight can shed new light on the human ageing process, say researchers. Some species react by getting darker with UV exposure in the same way as humans get a tan. Others though, protect from themselves from sun burn by turning genes on and off. The work, which is published in the journal Scientific Reports, could lead to new anti-ageing treatments in humans.

For several years now, marine biologists in Mexico have noticed an increasing number of whales in the region with blistered skin as a result of exposure to UV light. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote The sunburnt DNA we find in whales is the same sunburnt DNA we find in humans and that is definitely linked to ageing” End QuoteProf Mark Birch-MachinNewcastle University Warmer Blue. Knitting and Nature: 52 forms of fungi. Words cannot express how excited I am to be back on this project again! I've definitely missed it. The next few forms for the 52 Forms of Fungi series also include a bit of exciting news... Berroco offered recently to provide yarn for some of my mycological creations, and I shortly thereafter received a nice little package of Ultra Alpaca (one of my most favorite yarns!)

In multiple gauges and a variety of colors, as well as a couple of other yarny surprises. I am overwhelmed with gratitude for the support, and want to say a big "THANK YOU! " to Norah Gaughan and the Berroco team. Thanks also to all of you who have followed along with the project and reached out along the way - it means a lot. Now, what do we have here? To create these blue milky cap fungi, I used Berroco's Ultra Alpaca yarn in Pastel Blue and Azure Mix. Victorian skiing holidays melted Alpine glaciers - environment - 02 September 2013. Victorian skiing holidays to Europe may be partially to blame for the rapid retreat of glaciers in the Alps during the mid-19th century. From 1865, Alpine glaciers started to shrink to lengths not seen in the previous 500 years, a trend that continues today. This has puzzled climatologists as records show local temperatures were cool in the decades before the glaciers retreated, meaning something else must have melted them.

Mark Flanner of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his colleagues say soot particles from increased rail transport, the booming tourist industry and coal fires – all brought about by the budding industrial revolution – are to blame, especially from coal burned on the doorstep of the Alps. Black soot landing on a glacier reduces its reflectivity, causing it to absorb more energy from the sun and melt. The team studied ice cores from the glaciers and found that soot concentrations in the ice increased rapidly around the time the glaciers began retreating. The Feynman Lectures on Physics -- Chapter 2: Basic Physics. 2–1Introduction In this chapter, we shall examine the most fundamental ideas that we have about physics—the nature of things as we see them at the present time. We shall not discuss the history of how we know that all these ideas are true; you will learn these details in due time.

The things with which we concern ourselves in science appear in myriad forms, and with a multitude of attributes. For example, if we stand on the shore and look at the sea, we see the water, the waves breaking, the foam, the sloshing motion of the water, the sound, the air, the winds and the clouds, the sun and the blue sky, and light; there is sand and there are rocks of various hardness and permanence, color and texture. There are animals and seaweed, hunger and disease, and the observer on the beach; there may be even happiness and thought. For example: Is the sand other than the rocks? A few hundred years ago, a method was devised to find partial answers to such questions. 2–2Physics before 1920. Ig Nobels 2013: from attaching penises to stargazing beetles | Dean Burnett | Science. This year's Ig Nobel prizes were awarded on September 12 at a meeting of nerds at Harvard University. The prizes are given for genuine scientific research that "first makes people laugh and then makes them think".

So, at first glance, the research may strike you as somewhat baffling, surreal or even downright ridiculous. But science is rarely frivolous. None of the experiments awarded an Ig Nobel will have been the result of casual whims or unplanned notions, like the cast of TV series Jackass being set loose in a laboratory. Like the Nobels, the Ig Nobels are awarded for individual categories. Medicine The Ig Nobel for medicine went to Masateru Uchiyama and colleagues for their study which revealed that mice survived much longer after allograft heart transplants if they were made to listen to opera.

Interestingly, mice exposed to Mozart or Enya didn't show the same effect. Psychology Biology and Astronomy Safety Engineering Physics Chemistry Archaeology Probability Public Health. Ecuador's Galapagos islands get on Google Street View. 12 September 2013Last updated at 20:14 ET Street View allows users to explore a dive with sea lions off the Galapagos coast Some of the striking landscapes of Ecuador's Galapagos islands can now be explored online on Google Street View. The launch marks the 178th anniversary of the British scientist Charles Darwin's visit, which inspired his theory of natural selection.

The high-definition 360 degrees pictures are a joint project between Google, the Galapagos National Park and the Darwin Foundation. The pictures were taken with a special backpack camera during 10 days in May. Many of the animals seen by Darwin in his 1835 voyage were captured on camera by Google staff. Camera crews dived with sea-lions, trekked on the islands' biggest volcano and accompanied a leafy meal of the famous giant tortoises. Viewers can also have a taste of less famous Galapagos wildlife, including marine iguanas, blue-footed boobies and Frigatebirds. Tense on the surface. Keeled skimmer. Female field grasshopper. Clouded Yellow. Meadow grasshopper. 'Tanned' whales' sun response gives clues to human ageing. Does this photograph show Mary Anning? | Science. Born in 1799, Mary Anning was the discoverer of the famous ichthyosaur and plesiosaur fossils on the Jurassic coast of Dorset.

Following her death in 1847, Charles Dickens wrote of her contribution to geology: "It was not a science when she began to discover, and so [she] helped to make it one. " The Natural History Museum in London has called her the "greatest fossil hunter ever known". Simply titled The Geologists, the image above is known as a calotype or salt print.

It is one of the earliest examples of photography, captured by the pioneer who developed the method, William Henry Fox Talbot, on the Dorset coast in 1843. Could it show Anning? The dress of the woman looks strikingly similar to that in Anning's portrait. We know that Henry de la Beche, president of the British Geological Survey and a close friend of Anning, had corresponded with Talbot in February of that year, requesting him to take geological photographs. Io9. Web crawler. Living on the ceiling. Living dangerously. Common Darter. Child-deaths-from-heart-defects-plummets--thanks-to-the-nhs-8777143. But despite the intricacy, it is something that surgeons, and in particular NHS surgeons, have quietly been getting better at for decades. Today the British Heart Foundation has released figures that reveal a huge 83 per cent drop in the number of children dying from congenital heart disease – birth defects of the heart – over the last three decades.

Progress in diagnosis, intervention and post-op care has created a generation, now in their twenties and thirties, who are the first to have enjoyed high survival rates for major heart defects. There are so many survivors that a new speciality – adult congenital heart monitoring – has emerged to treat them in later life. “We are now getting generations of young people going into adulthood that wouldn’t have done 20 or 30 years ago,” Anne Keatley Clarke, chief executive of Children’s Heart Federation, told The Independent. Around eight in every 1,000 babies is born with a heart defect – 12 every day in the UK. The Most Bizarre and Beautiful Mushrooms on Earth - Likes.

August 14th, 2013. Born in First PlacePractice may make perfect, but geneticsdetermine athletic success by Michael Shermer Midway through the 1985 Race Across America, the 3,000-mile nonstop transcontinental bicycle race in which I rode as a competitor, Diana Nyad of ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” inquired what I might have done better in training in order to be able to catch the lead rider in front of me. “I should have picked better parents,” I answered, explaining that we all have certain genetic limitations that can’t be overcome through training. Michael Shermer, during the 1985 Race Across America around the time the camera crew from ABC’s Wide World of Sports pulled up to film him Or consider the “tale of two high jumpers” that David Epstein presents in The Sports Gene, his important book on the relative roles of genes and environment—nature and nurture—in the building of a professional athlete.

But then how do you explain Mr. What’s wrong with the 10,000-hour rule? Mr. In other words, genes matter. Fox moth caterpillar top. Cardiac health scanner worker Amy Sherwood detects her own heart tumour. BBC Science Club - Physics. Illegal palm oil developments force monkeys to down tools. Reading skill linked to differences in brain structure.

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