SoT 99: Are They Good Eating?

May 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The head of a coelacanth, Natural History Museum (London). Scientists have sequenced the living fossil's genome, giving clues about the evolution of limbs. Image: Pascalou petit / WikiMedia Commons

Inoculating babies with ‘good’ bacteria, the genome of the coelacanth gives clues to limb evolution, conscious babies and more!

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SoT 95: Bacterial Hugs

April 2, 2013 By 2 Comments
Roller Derby game between the Cherry Bombs (Green) vs Rhinestone Cowgirls (Red) on Aug 27, 2011, in Austin, Texas. Image: Earl McGehee / WikiMedia Commons

Where’s Voyager? Roller derby and bacteria, 3-donor IVF, bacteria that commit suicide and the real age of the Universe.

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SoT 90: An Ice Core of Pee

February 25, 2013 By 2 Comments
A Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax, living in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. It pees goop, and always in the same spot. Image: Rieselsteinchen (WikiMedia Commons)

A small animal’s toilet habits provide piles of data, the not-so-useless appendix, eathquakes, poison, oral bacteria, evolution and heaps more!

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SoT 89: Sky Fall in Russia

February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Russian Meteor

Russian meteor strike, the common ancestor of mammals, self-assembling molecules, spiders in the sky and more!

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SoT 88: Monkeys In Space

February 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Iran has successfully launched a live monkey into space. Comedian Jon Stewart described the monkey as "seen here doing it's best 'Han Solo frozen in Carbonite' impression". Image: Comedy Central via inothernews.

Older stars can make planets, Iran sends a monkey to space, an old English king found in a car park and much more!

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SoT 87: Complex Mating Rituals With Balls of Dung

February 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A life-size model of a homo neanderthalensis at the Museum Neandertal in Germany. Image: via WikiMedia Commons.

Leprosy alchemy, dung beetle astronomers, bad science journalism, babies falling over and more!

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SoT 82: We Love Data

December 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Scientists have warned that grapefruit can have serious complications with a growing number of prescription medications. Photo: Sophie Jonasson [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Bookworms, gut worms, mycoplasma ghosts and the dangers of grapefruit. Plus the evolution of vision, and a US-Russian crew to spend a year in space.

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SoT 76: 2012 Nobel Prizes

October 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Black mamba in defensive posture, photo taken by Bill Love, Blue Chameleon Ventures. Via WikiCommons.

Nobel prizes for Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, snakes on a pain, adaptive mosquitoes and more!

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SoT 72: An Army of Roaches

September 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements

ENCODE finds function in junk DNA, malaria’s role in human evolution, remote controlled cockroaches and where are all the dinosaur tales?

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SoT 68: Wet Dog Shaking

August 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Wet Finnegan 2: Shaking

Dogs shaking dry, multiple ancient humans, allergies reducing brain cancer and more!

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