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How global warming made Scotland’s sheep shrink

Friday, July 3, 2009

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Each of us can easily feel the effects of golbal warming especially now when we practically melt in our homes. However, it seems that there are some more… peculiar effects. Scientists have discovered that a wild species of sheep from the island of St. Kilda has begun to reduce their size as a result of [...]

New chemical element in the Periodic Table!

Saturday, June 13, 2009

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Were you one of those students who used to complain about all those chemical elements you had to study at school? Well, I guess this particular piece of news will not exactly make you celebrate. It seems that chemistry has yet a lot more to offer as the element 112 has just been recognised by the [...]

Komodo dragons are venomous

Monday, June 1, 2009

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The Komodo dragon is definitely one of the most impressive and dangerous creatures to roam the Earth. Reaching 3 metres and more than 70 kilos and delivering one of the most fatal bites in the reptilian world, it’s no wonder that it inspired so many legends and fears. However, it does not all end here: [...]

Did sauropods walk with their necks upright?

Friday, May 29, 2009

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They could get as long as 40 metres and as heavy as 100 tons, making the earth shake literally as they walked. These were the sauropods: the gentle giants that were believed to have sticked their necks out in front of them. Even though we’ve seen them this way in museums and documentaries such as [...]

The neurobiology of music

Thursday, May 28, 2009

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Music has also been something scientists have found hard to characterize. Music is basically a form of social communication between individuals, and whether you’re humming the song from a commercial or soloing around Hendrix style you are communicating, expressing something. If done by parents around infants, it attaches the little ones to them and also [...]

Why some people never forget a face while others can’t even remember who you are

Thursday, May 21, 2009

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Have you ever felt insignificant because someone didn’t remember your face (not to mention your name)? Have you ever freaked out because someone else remembered the exact time and date of your first meeting…three years earlier? Well, you’re not so unimpressive so as not to be recognized later and neither are the ones around you [...]

In Madrid and Barcelona cocaine is in the air

Sunday, May 17, 2009

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It’s quite impossible not to be aware of the fact that someone is smoking marijuana somewhere around you because of its particular smell. However, who would have suspected that the air people breathe in a certain area of a city could in fact hide traces of 5 powerful drugs in it? This is what researchers discovered [...]

Is it possible that we inherit happiness?

Friday, May 15, 2009

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So here it is: a new study comes to show that the way we feel throughout our lives may determine our children’s development. It’s all a problem of chemistry: the “chemistry” of happiness or sadness. However, don’t think that the fact that one’s parents had a bad day at work turned him or her into [...]

Neanderthals were fearless and calculated hunters

Friday, May 15, 2009

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Even among some scientific circles, Neanderthals are considered to be the ’stupid’ cousins of the modern humans (although some claim that’s the hobbit). However, new research shows they were able to hunt really large animals which required more than power to be taken down, pointing that neanderthals were far from stupid (as hobbits were too, [...]

Salamaders show that being different means staying alive

Thursday, May 14, 2009

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Remember when we were kids and everyone picked on the ones who looked peculiar in a way or another starting from their hair color and ending with their height? Well, whether you were a “victim” or a “predator” find out that there is a reason why some individuals of a species look at least a [...]

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