What’s in a name? Quite a lot actually. Sally Le Page with Shed Science shares the stories behind six of the most interesting animal species names from the misconceptions around apes and monkeys to the downright bizarre Beyonce horsefly.
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For Valentine’s Day, Bite Sci-zed has dug up three short love stories from the animal kingdom.
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Molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria “talk” to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The finding has stunning implications for medicine — and our understanding of ourselves.
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Do criminals look different than everyone else?
Cesare Lombroso
That’s what Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso believed. He collected more than 400 skulls of 19th century criminals seeking to prove his theories that physiognomy shaped one’s tendencies to commit crimes or indulge in deviant behavior. The skulls and related artifacts — including Lombroso’s full skeleton — are on display at the Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin, Italy. But descendants of the criminals are crying foul, saying the exhibit should be closed and their relatives’ skulls returned for proper burial.
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Which came first? That’s a question that has perplexed humans since at least the times of the Ancient Greece. AsapSCIENCE takes a crack at answering the conundrum.
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Dear Gentlemen. Science has a confession. You were once…a female, which helps to explain where your nipples came from. H/T asapSCIENCE
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Did you know that the male angler fish is little more than a shriveled-up pair of gonads? But at least the female of the species knows how to shake a tail fin. Who will light the way for that pretty, pretty lady?
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British scientists have called off a $13 million drilling project that was an attempt to search for traces of prehistoric life at Lake Ellsworth in Antarctica. The project could be resumed in the future, but first some daunting technical challenges must be overcome.
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What would it look like if we took Earth’s 4.5 billion year history, and stuffed it into a normal day’s 24 hour time-frame? Follow the magnificent journey of life; where it began, and how it eventually led to humanity as we know it. H/T ASAPscience
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Why do men tend to wake up with “morning wood?” Here’s a Sex Ed class you never got in school, taking a look at the hard facts and some of the biology of an erection, to discover the mechanism behind this phenomenon. H/T asapSCIENCE
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