A fan of Neil Young who happens to be a biologist named a newly discovered spider after the Canadian rocker. The trapdoor spider, Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi lives in Alabama.
East Carolina University biologist Jason Bond recently declared the spider is a new species and has sent students there to collect more of the species for specimens.
The musician [...]
NASA is about to make history as it plots to land spacemen on an asteroid that is traveling in space at 28,000mph towards the Earth. The massive rock called 2000SG344 is the size of a yacht.
If projections are correct it will narrowly miss the third rock from the Sun in 60 years.
If this yacht sized [...]
Thousands of years ago, nearly 70,000 animal species almost faced extinction, and the human race dwindled down to a mere number of 2,000 living in Africa. The numbers started to rise in the early Stone Age.
An exciting report out of Stanford University tells how thousands of years ago humans were at the brink of extinction. [...]
The University of Iowa is looking for a few good heads. Researchers in the UI Department of Anesthesia are willing to pay test subjects to have a little toke all in the name of science.
There’s money involved but the test subjects won’t be making much more than a month’s rent for this job.
The study is [...]
Researchers at the University of Southern California have discovered that making mice fast prior to intensive chemo treatments protected them from the side effects. Could the results make it so humans can survive cancer treatments with the same response?
A 48 hour fast was enough to protect from such intensive chemo that wiped out much of [...]
Maybe Neanderthals weren’t so different from modern man. New discoveries point to towards early man and makeup. Francesco d’Errico from the University of Bordeaux has found lumps of pigments left behind Neanderthals across Europe.
These pigments could very well have been makeup that Neanderthals used to mark their own with along with animal skins. It leads [...]
The unborn children of those living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the U.S. dropped the bomb during WWII are still dealing with issues of the fallout. Adult cancers are now attacking children and those yet to be born when their city was forever changed.
Findings of a recent study have been published in the March 19 [...]
Last week’s artifical flooding of the Grand Canyon worked creating sandbars. Some of the much needed new formations are the size of football fields according to an official making new habitats possible.
“On a couple of big sandbars there were already beaver tracks, bighorn sheep tracks,” Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Steve Martin said. “You could [...]
With the emergence of antibiotic resistant bugs penicillin has become one of those drugs that the “bugs” have figured out how to overcome. Does that mean penicillin will become fazed out?
Streptococcus pneumoniae kills 5 million children a year. In the past pneumonia were treated with basic penicillin and for the most part were curable. The [...]
Native American family trees appear to have one of six women in them. 95 percent of all Native Americans have been traced back to the DNA of these women who lived between 18,000 and 21,000 years ago.
The findings show that the six maternal lineages can be found in the mitochondrial DNA that is passed on [...]
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