Giant Spider Discovered in Sri Lanka
“Little Miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider and sat down beside her, and frightened Miss Muffet away.” Recent news out of Sri Lanka may seem like something...
View ArticleGenomics Solves the Great Potato Famine Mystery
Researchers at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, U.K. have sequenced the genome of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the mid-19th century that was responsible for the deaths of...
View ArticleScientists Solve Moon Gravity Mystery, Piece Together the Moon’s Violent Past
The variations in the lunar gravity field as measured by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) during the primary mapping mission from March to May 2012. Image credit:...
View ArticleEvolution News: 55 Million Years Ago Human Predecessors Weighed One Ounce
A reconstruction of Archicebus achilles in its natural habitat of trees. (AP Photo/Xijun Ni, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) “If you retrace...
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