The Sounds of Science

[JD3000]

Fisherman catches giant shark -- just as something even bigger takes a bite

Fisherman catches giant shark -- just as something even bigger takes a bite | CNN

It's a shark-eat-shark world, as one fisherman discovered this week.

www.cnn.com

 

[Jan_]

Microbes grow in soil heated by underground coal fire in Centralia

 

[JD3000]

UK goes a whole week without using coal-fired electricity

The cradle of the Industrial Revolution is turning a corner away from pollution.

arstechnica.com

 

[JD3000]

Why Making A 'Designer Baby' Would Be Easier Said Than Done https://n.pr/2vAmmyc

 

[JD3000]

After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On https://n.pr/2VrPRAU

 

[JD3000]

Scientists Restore Some Function In The Brains Of Dead Pigs https://n.pr/2VdbogR

 

[Tom Dunlap]

After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On https://n.pr/2VrPRAU

Much more important to take support for the advancement of knowledge and spend it on a border wall.

 

[Burrapeg]

Scientists Restore Some Function In The Brains Of Dead Pigs https://n.pr/2VdbogR

Maybe they could do the same for Trump.

 

[JD3000]

I'm an evolutionary biologist—here's why this ancient fungal fossil discovery is so revealing

Biologists don't call them "the hidden kingdom" for nothing. With an estimated 5 million species, only a mere 100,000 fungi are known to scientists. This kingdom, which includes molds, yeasts, rusts and mushrooms, receives far less attention than plants or animals. This is particularly true for...

m.phys.org

 

[JD3000]

Bleak outlook for leaving the planet before it's destroyed

Life on Mars? Sorry Brian Cox, that’s still science fiction | Philip Ball

The utopian vision of humans colonising the red planet to solve our energy and population crises is a misguided fantasy, says science writer Philip Ball

www.theguardian.com

 

[JD3000]

Striped maple trees often change sexes, with females more likely to die

Although pollen has covered cars for weeks and allergy sufferers have been sneezing, we think of sex as being the realm of animals. But plant sex can be quite interesting, especially in species that can have male or female flowers. In a study in the journal Annals of Botany, Rutgers...

www.eurekalert.org

 

[Tom Dunlap]

The Moon is part of Mars...???

Twitter is having an absolute field day with Trump after he claimed that the Moon is a part of Mars

The president's befuddling viral tweet immediately unleashed a wave of brutal mockery.

washingtonpress.com

 

[JD3000]

Asimov had a great science book Of Space, Time, and Other Things.

He went on to explain that the Moon isn't actually a satellite and that we're more of a binary planetary system based on mass and distance from each other.

 

[JD3000]

Want a great presidential debate? It's simple really. Make it a quiz show with the topics of natural and social sciences, history, civics, economics, basic arithmetic...

 

[JD3000]

And why hasn't SNL done Celebrity Jeopardy with Trump yet. Sean Connery would look brilliant with that ass hat as a co-contestant

 

[JD3000]

These Super Rare Butterflies Thrive on Army Bases. The U.S. Military is Helping Them.

To save endangered butterflies, an unlikely team of ecologists and the Department of Defense are setting some of them on fire.

www.pbs.org

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Little by little we're amputating ourselves into extinction.

Need plants too...not just whales

 

[JD3000]

Jupiter's Galilean moons will be visible tonight with good binoculars

 

[JeffGu]

The moons of Jupiter are part of Mars. Trump told me so.

 

[JD3000]

They need to forget the moon and head to Mars which is a moon of Jupiter. Or Uranus.