Source: The top 15 C&C articles in 2018 … and the all-time top 5
Month: January 2019
A new species is evolving right before our eyes — an ultra-successful mix of wolves, coyotes and dogs
A new species combining wolves, coyotes and dogs is evolving before scientists’ eyes in the eastern United States. Wolves faced with a diminishing number of potential mates are lowering their standards and mating with other, similar species, reported The Economist. The interbreeding began up to 200 years ago, as European settlers pushed into southern Ontario and cleared the animal’s habitat for farming and killed a large number of the wolves that lived there. That also…
In Just 200 Years, We Reversed This 50-Million-Year Climate Trend
Scientists studying the deep past find a warning of a dangerous future: the reversal of an age-long cooling pattern.
Source: In Just 200 Years, We Reversed This 50-Million-Year Climate Trend
Climate Crisis Is “Existential Threat,” House Democrats Say — but Protecting Turf Comes First
Like Fruit, Vegetables, and Almonds? Scientists Have Bad News.
A new study finds that the main source of water for our fresh produce could dry up within our lifetimes.
Source: Like Fruit, Vegetables, and Almonds? Scientists Have Bad News. – Mother Jones
No Arctic Sea-Ice; Greenland Exposed; Coast is Toast; Jet Streams Kaput
2018 saw mechanobiology, including biophysics, come to the fore | Uncommon Descent
The mechanome, “the body of knowledge about mechanical forces at work in the molecular, cellular, anatomical, and physiological processes that contribute to the architecture of living structures and their physical properties,” became more prominent this year in discussions of biology (though one sto
Source: 2018 saw mechanobiology, including biophysics, come to the fore | Uncommon Descent
Cities Can Serve as Cauldrons of Evolution | The Scientist Magazine®
From changes in gene flow to adaptation, the effects of urbanization are shaping the evolutionary trajectories of plants and animals.
Source: Cities Can Serve as Cauldrons of Evolution | The Scientist Magazine®
GoBonobos in 2019!
Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners, welcome to the butt end of 2018 (Happy Nude Rear) and the exhilarating thrill of “new relationship energy” with 20
Source: GoBonobos in 2019!
‘Dark Overlord’ hacker group threatens to release confidential documents on 9/11 attacks – Alternet.org
Hackers threatened to release “hundreds of gigabytes of litigation-related documents” about the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.The group Dark Overlord said it had hacked major insurers Hiscox Syndicates, Ltd. and Lloyds of London.”It is unclear what exact files the group
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