How do starfish keep cool when lying on the sand during low tide? Dr Sylvain Pincebourde and colleagues at the University of California, Davis and Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, California, studied starfish (oka...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/starfish-bulk-up-to-cool-down/[caption id="attachment_27079" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Photo: Tom Bonaventure/Getty Images"][/caption]Hannah Devlin has a neat piece up at Times Online about the continuing shift in architecture towards bi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/24/the-future-of-architecture/In order to teach horse owners about their horses, Gillian Higgins spends up to four hours painting anatomical features on her white horse - in essence, turning it inside out! No more wondering about where a particula...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/23/inside-out-horses/The 19th annual Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded Thursday night at Sander’s Theater on the Harvard campus. The awards are given to “honor achievements that make people laugh, and then make them think.” A few of the win...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/02/ig-nobel-prizes-2009/Modern musicians are frequently believed to be stu... ...ying with Bad Religion, Graffin also teaches Life Sciences at UCLA. He has also written two books, one a ser... ...r Irrelevant? A Professor and Punk Rocker Discuss Science , Religion, Naturalism & Christianity, the oth... ...-Intelligence Agency, U...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/8-scientifically-minded-musicians/Many communities have enacted smoking bans in public places, some of which have been in effect for several years. How is that affecting our overall health? According to an analysis of studies, the bans are significantly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/26/smoking-bans-cut-heart-attacks-by-up-to-a-quarter/Two male squirrel monkeys were given gene therapy and now the normally color blind animals are able to distinguish between shades of red and green in color vision tests. In normal situations, female squirrel monkeys can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/18/mokeys-cured-of-color-blindness/Photo: Mark Gallagher Resembling something out of Independence Day, or the arrival of Cthulu, Mammatus Clouds are a meteorological phenomenon caused by sagging cellular accumulations produced in clouds of ice and wate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/mammatus-clouds-2/A ‘telepathy’ chip that allows people to control computers, televisions and light switches by the power of thought is being developed by British scientists. The idea was conceived by Dr. Jon Spratley while he was stu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/04/turn-on-the-tv-using-the-power-of-thought/The food we eat – from corn to cattle – has been domestically modified for thousands of years. Today scientists, agronomists and geneticistsare taking the next step: improving our food from the inside out. Allergic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/03/10-more-eccentric-genetically-modified-fruits-veggies/
