Now that looks interesting....

Ancient, scary and alien-looking specimen forms a rarity in the insect world-a new order
January 25, 2017 by David Stauth


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Just to prove life is full of surprises, even life you thought you knew about pretty well...

Lichens aren't quite what we thought, shocked scientists discover
New yeasts found to be secret partners with known fungi and algae

By Emily Chung, CBC News Posted: Jul 21, 2016 2:35 PM ET Last Updated: Jul 22, 2016 8:42 AM ET

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Tim Griffin's latest video.  Much fun!  He's Toastmaster for the 2016 OVFF btw... And I'm Interfilk guest.  This is going to be FUN.

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One for the books, if the book is Great Horror Tales of Chemistry anyway.  5 years old, but quite appropriate for the month which contains Halloween.

February 23, 2010

Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen DifluoridePosted by Derek ( Read more... )

Water, water everywhere....  Thanks, Krypton Radio!!

NASA Confirms an Ocean on Enceladus

Krypton Radio September 17, 2015Science Fiction / Fantasy / Steampunk

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For those unfamiliar with Nicolai's Other Suns and related campaigns, that's what the participants have been known to call robot probes of all sorts.  Various sorts of pads for clinging to locales to be investigated are known collectively as "stickie poos".  (Terms derive from a comment by John Bradley.)  Anyway, an article from Sky and Telescope ( Read more... )

A few more interesting things I found in Science Daily today

1. Some deep sea sharks are buoyant - which surprised the guy who put a camera on one and got a lot of blank frames because it swam higher than he expected most of the time.

2. The incredible shrinking diode. Apparently layering van der Waals materials directly on a molecular scale ( ( Read more... )

The usual - if humanity decides to act like a sapient life form we can deal with this.  If it acts like it usually does... Oh dear.....

Got the link from an article in Science Daily.  You probably want to go directly to the article; there's a video and stuff.

Stanford Report, June 19, 2015
Stanford researcher declares that the sixth mass ( Read more... )

From the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Moth tails divert bat attack: Evolution of acoustic deflection

Significance

Bats and moths have been engaged in acoustic warfare for more than 60 million y. Yet almost half of moth species lack bat-detecting ears and still face intense bat predation. We ( Read more... )

OK, in mice, but promising for all that.

From The Scientist

Erasing Mitochondrial Mutations
Researchers develop a method to selectively remove mutated mitochondrial DNA from the murine germline and single-celled mouse embryos.By Jenny Rood | April 23, 2015 ( Read more... )