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Current Understandings of Cambrian Lobopods Including Hallucigenia

Cambrian lobopodians: A review of recent progress in our understanding of their morphology and evolutionAuthors:1. Jianni Liu (a)2. Jason A. Dunlop (b)Affiliations:a. Early Life Institute, The Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Northwest University, Xi’an, 710069, Chinab. Show More Summary

Diskagma buttonii: Evidence of Paleoproterozoic Terrestrial Life?

Problematic urn-shaped fossils from a Paleoproterozoic (2.2 Ga) paleosol in South Africa Authors: 1. Gregory J. Retallack (a)2. Evelyn S. Krull (b)3. Glenn D. Thackray (c)4. Dula Parkinson (d)Affiliations:a. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregonb. Show More Summary

Evidence of Cooling in the Late Ordovician from Siberia

Late Ordovician cooling event: Evidence from the Siberian cratonAuthor:1. Andrei Dronov (a)Affiliation:a. Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevsky per.7, 119017, Moscow, RussiaAbstract:The Upper Ordovician of the Tungus basin on the Siberian platform is represented by cool-water carbonates. Show More Summary

The Internet in Africa (or Kenya at least)

Venus' Winds are Getting Stronger

As the closest planet to Earth, Venus is a relatively easy object to observe. However, many mysteries remain, not least the super-rotation of Venus' atmosphere, which enables high altitude winds to circle the planet in only four days. Now images of cloud features sent back by ESA's Venus Express orbiter have revealed that these remarkably rapid winds are becoming even faster.

Africa's Drift Inferred From Apparent Pole Wandering From the Jurassic to Present

The drift history of Adria and Africa from 280 Ma to Present, Jurassic true polar wander, and zonal climate control on Tethyan sedimentary faciesAuthors:1. G. Muttoni (a, b)2. E. Dallanave (c)3. J.E.T. Channell (d)Affiliations:a. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra "A. Show More Summary

3D Printing Microbatteries

3D printing can now be used to print lithium-ion microbatteries the size of a grain of sand. The printed microbatteries could supply electricity to tiny devices in fields from medicine to communications, including many that have lingered...Show More Summary

Trophic Cacades Can Greatly Effect Carbon Cycling for an Ecosystem

Trophic cascade alters ecosystem carbon exchangeAuthors:1. Michael S. Strickland (a,b)2. Dror Hawlena (c)3. Aspen Reese (a,d)4. Mark A. Bradford (a)5. Oswald J. Schmitz (a)Affiliations:a. School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511b. Show More Summary

The Robopocalypse Will Slither

Are Economists Now Able to Predict Bubbles?

Timelapse of a Rotating Supercell

China Takes #1 Spot on Top 500 List

Title link as always, but note the list has power consumption on it. Tianhe-2 consumes at least 17 MW of power...I'm willing to bet that does NOT include cooling.

Origin and Evolution of Hemichordata

Hemichordata (Pterobranchia, Enteropneusta) and the fossil recordAuthor:1. Jörg Maletz (a)Affiliation:a. FU Berlin, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, Malteser Str. 74–100, Haus B 322, D- 12247 Berlin, GermanyAbstract:The Hemichordata...Show More Summary

Even Our Feline Overlords Must Worry About the Robopocalypse

Why did RCUK betray us to barrier-based publishers?

I know I’ve written about this before, but Richard Poynder’s new post reminds me that we Brits really do need to be up in arms over the abject behaviour of our supposed representatives, the research councils (RCUK). As a direct result of this policy, the publisher Emerald has now introduced 24-month embargoes on RCUK-funded papers, […]

The Dangers of the Filter Bubble

Its not just the algorithms. Its the the friends we pick online too. We cannot afford to just be friends with those which totally agree with us.

Uh, Dur? Techno Thriller Writer Says No to Terminators

Tau Ceti Probably Does Not Have a habitable World

Rather a near Venus and an Early Mars. So, no Grendels.

Better Czech That Out: A Flying Bicycle

What I don't quite get is...why a bicycle? Is it a stand in for a motorcycle in a future prototype?

The Tower on Cathedral Hill