Posts Tagged ‘insects’
[URBAN NOTE] Five notes about smart animals: bees, wolves/dogs, cetaceans, Denisovans, Neanderthals
- The Conversation notes how urban beekeepers can play a key role in saving bees from extinction.
- Motherboard looks at the comparative intelligence, and generosity, of wolves versus their domesticated dog counterparts.
- National Geographic looks at how marine mammals, particularly cetaceans, have been used in different militaries.
- Smithsonian Magazine looks at how recent studies have demonstrated the diversity among Denisovan populations.
- Smithsonian Magazine looks at the new consensus about the remarkable capabilities of Neanderthals.
[NEWS] Five science links: global warming, bees, Balsillie, backups, Neanderthals
- New estimates suggest the costs of global warming will be in the tens of trillions of dollars, with warmer countries taking a particularly big hit. Motherboard reports.
- Indigenous bumblebee populations in Canada are fast approaching extinction, with a certainty of major negative environmental effects. CBC reports.
- MacLean’s reports on the return to prominence of Jim Balsillie, this time not so much as a tech mogul as a sort off tech skeptic.
- This Motherboard article makes a somewhat far-fetched argument that Game of Thrones demonstrates the need for human civilization to have backups.
- The Conversation reports on the recent discovery, in Serbia by a joint Serbian-Canadian team, of a Neanderthal tooth, and what this discovery means for our understanding of the deep past of humanity.
[NEWS] Ten D-Brief links
- Did extraterrestrial sugars seed life on Earth? D-Brief reports.
- A detailed simulation suggests how black holes can function as natural particle accelerators. D-Brief reports.
- This trompe l’oeil photo seemingly combines the two Saturnian moons of Dione and Rhea. D-Brief shares this.
- Evidence of methane in the atmosphere of Mars is strangely lacking. D-Brief reports.
- Astronomers found, with help from a quasar, a patch of gas in deep intergalactic space apparently a pure sampling from the Big Bang. D-Brief reports.
- A species of midge has become an invasive species in Antarctica. D-Brief reports.
- Plants have been made to grow in space. D-Brief reports.
- These remarkable images of Ultima Thule from New Horizons shows a two-lobed world. D-Brief shares them.
- Perhaps unsurprisingly, the effect of climate change could lead to greater electricity consumption in China. D-Brief reports.
- Congratulations are due to China for the successful landing of the Chang’e-4 probe on the far side of the Moon.