Around_the_Web – Page 191

Researchers Solve Darwin’s Copycat Evolution Puzzle
By the Editor on March 22, 2012
Species of snakes, spiders and butterflies have all evolved to look like other species to ward off predators. But...
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Did Belief in Gods Lead to Mayan Demise?
By the Editor on March 22, 2012
A dread of malevolent spirits haunting forsaken areas could, along with environmental catastrophes, help to explain why some areas...
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MIT: U.S. Has Plenty of Room for Carbon Storage
By the Editor on March 22, 2012
While plenty of question marks still hang over the prospect of carbon capture and storage, MIT believes it’s ruled...
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We Are Going to Pay for This Beautiful, Freaky Weather
By the Editor on March 22, 2012
As much as we’re enjoying these halcyon early spring days of bare legs and light breezes, perfect al fresco...
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Rutgers Professor Wins ‘Nobel Prize’ of Mathematics
By the Editor on March 22, 2012
Order and reason are a mathematician’s tools. In the hands of a very select few, however, those tools can...
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Detection of Cosmic Effect Brings Universe’s Formation Into Focus
By the Editor on March 21, 2012
A large research team from two major astronomy surveys reports in a paper submitted to the journal Physical Review...
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The Snails of War and Other Robotic Experiments
By the Editor on March 21, 2012
The electric snail is here. There’s an electric cockroach too. Both are early experimental forays in a new line...
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A Neuroscientist’s Quest to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain
By the Editor on March 21, 2012
M.I.T. scientist Sebastian Seung describes the audacious plan to find the connectome--a map of every single neuron in the...
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Sea-Level Rise Will Cost $2 Trillion
By the Editor on March 21, 2012
As the seas rise, so will the costs associated with them. The impact of climate change on oceans alone...
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Noise Pollution Affects Plants, Too
By the Editor on March 21, 2012
Facing an ever-increasing din of background noise from traffic and other human activities, many animals are adapting by changing...
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