There’s a whole new world buried under more than two miles (4.5 km) of ice in East Antarctica — or at least a whole new mountain range. An international team of researchers, braving insanely bone-chilling conditions, has used twin-engine light aircraft, along with a network of seismic instruments that would span Texas, to map the mammoth [...]
Most people have heard squirrels and other animals raise a racket when there’s a predator nearby. Sometimes, the chirps, tweets and screeches don’t change much when a prey species is threatened by a hawk, say, or a prowling jackal. But scientists are becoming increasingly aware of other animals — including prairie dogs, lemurs and red [...]
It’s a bit of an understatement to say journalists have been coming under scrutiny lately for coverage of climate change. On the extreme end of the criticism is the allegation that “the media” (can you tell I hate that, “the media?”) is deliberately hoodwinking the general public to believe in global warming. I’m not really sure [...]
ScienceDebate2008 and AAAS have tallied the final numbers for science funding in the stimulus package. The graphic at right will open in a new page if you click on it. Kudos to Arizona State Geologist Lee Allison for putting these on his blog.
Researchers in Germany and Russia have been spying on the creepy little bacteria that cause Lyme’s Disease, and think they may be closing in on an Achilles Heel. And that could translate into good news someday for the roughly 30,000 people who contract the tick-born disease in the United States each year (see map) — and [...]
