Science Stories tagged with “Science” This 32-Year-Old Florida Woman Is Dead Because Her State Refused To Expand Medicaid One English Town’s Innovative Response To Sea Level Rise Women From Koch-Funded Conservative Groups Lambaste Equal Pay Measure Culture ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Star Duped Into Narrating Film That Says The Sun Revolves Around The Earth By Josh Israel on April 8, 2014 While the onetime Starfleet captain announces that "everything we think we know about our universe is wrong," it appears that everything she and several of the world's top cosmologists thought about the film was also incorrect 260 Tweets 4,395 Shares Economy Men Outnumber Women 7 to 3 In Tech Industry, Report Says By Lauren C. The tech industry's gender problem extends out further than Silicon Valley where men outnumber women 7 to 3 tech jobs in New York City -- and nationwide. 133 Tweets 269 Shares Home Page Creationist Lawmakers Derail Third Grader’s Campaign To Honor The Woolly Mammoth By Aviva Shen on April 2, 2014 Climate
Denim and Tweed MYRMECOS - Insect Photography - Insect Pictures Darren Naish: Tetrapod Zoology Afarensis: Anthropology, Evolution, and Science The Panda's Thumb S e q u e n c e S s blog What’s evolution got to do with math? This is an article I recently wrote (in Turkish) on the mathematical analysis of microevolutionary process, focusing on demography, variation and selection components of the current eco-evolutionary models. It is published in Cumhuriyet Bilim Teknik (1373: 10-11), a popular science magazine in Turkey, and reproduced here with their permission. Bu soruyu sormadan önce matematiğin doğa bilimleriyle ne alakası olduğunu bir kez daha hatırlayalım. Bilim insanları olarak, doğanın nasıl işlediğine dair gözleme dayalı öngörülerimizi hipotezler halinde paketleyip geçerliliklerini gözlem ve deneyler yoluyla sorguluyoruz. Modern sentezin mimarlarından J.B.S. Temel bilimlerin her alanında olduğu gibi, evrimsel biyolojide de hipotezlerimizin birçoğunu nicel olarak formüle ediyor, bu sayede bilimsel sorgulama işlemini daha titiz ve objektif hale getirebiliyoruz. * Aynı zamanda “çıkar” anlamına da gelen İngilizce “interest” kelimesinin doğru çevirisidir!
no dry light Why Evolution Is True Pharyngula As anyone who has ever raised aquarium fish knows, they’re all different. Maybe you think a fish is just a fish, not very different from one another and all rather stupid, but I spent years sitting next to tanks of zebrafish, and I can tell you you’re wrong. I’d watch them gamboling about, and you’d quickly realize that oh, that one is aggressive, that one likes to hid, that one gets the zoomies and darts about the tank. You can learn to recognize individual fish by their behavior. I always wondered about that. But now a new study comes along that does what I would have been excited to know about 20 years ago (and I still am!). To determine the causes and mechanisms that can generate behavioral individuality in the absence of genetic and environmental differences, it is essential to first pinpoint when behavioral individuality emerges and how it continues to unfold after emergence. To cut to the conclusion, Amazon mollies differ on Day One, with all that implies. What have we learned?
Bad Astronomy Well now, this is an interesting discovery: astronomers have found what looks like a "super-Earth" – a planet more massive than Earth but still smaller than a gas giant – orbiting a nearby star at the right distance to have liquid water on it! Given that, it might – might – be Earthlike. This is pretty cool news. We’ve found planets like this before, but not very many! Now let me be clear: this is a planet candidate; it has not yet been confirmed. The star is called HD 40307, and it’s a bit over 40 light years away (pretty close in galactic standards, but I wouldn’t want to walk there). Massive planets tug on their star harder, so they’re easier to find this way. In this case, HD 40307 was originally observed a little while back by HARPS, and three planets were found. We don’t know how big the planet is, unfortunately. That’s exciting because of the prospect for life. Here’s a diagram of the system as compared to our own: Image credits: ESO/M. Related Posts:
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