Pulsars can be very unpredictable, and they can also generate cosmic phenomena that leave experts wondering whether what they learned of them is correct or no longer applicable. For instance, the PSR B1509-58 celestial body, designated B1509 for short, is a very small pulsar, barely 12 miles in diameter, which inhabi... |
4 April 2009
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The latest fossils found prove that the number of crawling creatures that crowded the Cambrian shores was larger than previously believed. And that they were not alone. About 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian age, all of Earth's life was concentrated in the planetary oceans. Paleontologists assume ... |
25 September 2008
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The crab-like robot prototype was invented by University of Bath postgraduate student Charles Gage as part of a project to develop an exploration independent underwater vehicle which would enable maritime companies, such as those in the oil and gas industry, to have better access to underwater equipment. The robot ca... |
23 April 2008
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These are the "Chip and Dales" of the crab world: the best performers of erotic dances in the world of the crustaceans. And their dances are extremely efficient, as they send pheromones to lure far-away females out of their dens, as found by a new research published in the "Journal of Experimental Biology." It appear... |
9 April 2008
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You may have heard about Easter Island and its enigmatic huge stone heads. But there is also a Christmas Island. It belongs to Australia, but because of its remote location of the Australian mainland, many people in the motherland ignore it or simply do not know about its existence. Christmas Island is located in the... |
12 March 2008
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These weird creatures are called horseshoe crabs, but they have nothing to do with the actual crabs. They are not crustaceans, but related with the extinct trilobites, sea scorpions (that could reach 3 m or 10 ft in length) and with the living scorpions. They are amongst the largest living arthropods and are consider... |
29 January 2008
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Squid pen, remaining of the once well developed shell like the one of a snail, is usually a waste product of the squids, which most food processors discard. But a wound-healing gel based on squid pen and developed by a team at the Otago University was brought into the attention of international pharmaceutical compan... |
30 November 2007
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This is the whale of the ground-dwelling arhtropods (articulated-feet invertebrates). The coconut crab, also called the robber crab (because it is believed to steal shiny objects, like a magpie), lives only on the tropical islands of Indian and Pacific Oceans (Christmas, Seychelles, Cook, Andaman, Nicobar, Carolines)... |
19 November 2007
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Seafood appears to hold the secret for a safe space journey. A team from Harvey Mudd College (HMC) in California and the University of Louisville, collaborating with bioengineering and biomaterials company BioSTAR West, is investigating a chemical encountered in shrimp and lobster shells that could protect injured as... |
24 July 2007
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This took naturalists by surprise: guess who survived throughout the rise and fall of Rome's empire in the mighty ruins of Trajan? A freshwater crab, Potamon fluviatile, proved the most persistent, thriving in the canals built by the Etruscans about 3,000 years ago. "The ancient ruins of Trajan's Forum in t... |
4 June 2007
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Sex can be dangerous. And in some cases the females are the ones putting themselves at risk. In the case of the fiddler crabs females have to expose themselves to the predators to get some loving moments. That's why they seem to take very seriously the sexual signaling as discovered by a mix team from Seoul Nat... |
9 May 2007
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