We are hoping readers continue enjoying these snippets of information regarding what is happening in many areas of the natural sciences. Please let us know what additional areas you wish to learn about by posting in the comments. We try to keep these articles in categories related to existing sections of our Academy.
Anthropology
- What Stone Age humans ate over 10,000 years ago revealed in new study. Based on ancient chewing gum analysis.
- The universe is significantly older than scientists previously believed. Data analyzed from the James Webb Space Telescope now puts the age at 26.7 billion years. WOW!
- The World Hasn’t Seen Cicadas Like This Since 1803. Yes, Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States then. Miss this one and you will have to wait another 221 years. We should get ready to experience roughly 1 trillion cicadas.
- Researchers observe tiny pseudoscorpion riding on a scorpion. And, both are myrmecophiles (associated with ant colonies).
- Tiny frog that lives its whole life inside one plant. They are an new species to science and live in bromeliad plants on top of a Brazilian mountain.
- Watch chameleon erupt in color ‘as if uttering her last words’ in her final moments before death. Rather sad, but death is a part of life.
- Was Megalodon Slimmer Than Previously Thought? New study based on their backbone.
- Largest deep-sea coral reef to date is mapped by scientists off the US Atlantic coast. Stretches hundreds of miles off U.S. Atlantic coast.
Things that make us go hmmm…
- Biology or technology: Which moves more information per second? “If we recognize information as an essential component of life and also see life as a planetary-scale process, a question arises: How can we combine those two perspectives to understand information on planetary scales?”
- These videos show (nearly) exactly how animals see the world. “Thanks to open-source cameras, we can now see the natural world through the eyes of animals with over 90 per cent accuracy.”
And… That concludes our review of interesting articles this week. Please let us know your thoughts by posting in the comments below.