Helicoprion, a shark from the early Permian with a single spiral tooth, shaped like a buzzsaw.
Remote sensing in rats. 'It’s not telepathy. It’s not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.'
'I sometimes wonder if the success of books such as Twilight and Fifty Shades is itself a form of mass PTSD or Stockholm syndrome—a reaction to the ubiquity of violence against women and to the way in which stories of sexual violence, real or feigned, have become a culturally accepted form of entertainment; and a reaction to the often intolerable pressures of living in a world where power is still mostly in the hands of men.' Elizabeth Hand on women in fiction who fight back.
Even dying stars could host planets with life—and if such life exists, we might be able to detect it within the next decade. This encouraging result comes from a new theoretical study of Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarf stars. Researchers found that we could detect oxygen in the atmosphere of a white dwarf's planet much more easily than for an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-02-future-evidence-extraterrestrial-life-dying.html#jCp
Even dying stars could host planets with life—and if such life exists, we might be able to detect it within the next decade. This encouraging result comes from a new theoretical study of Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarf stars. Researchers found that we could detect oxygen in the atmosphere of a white dwarf's planet much more easily than for an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star.Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-02-future-evidence-extraterrestrial-life-dying.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-02-future-evidence-extraterrestrial-life-dying.html#jCp
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