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Articles Written by: LIZZIE BUCHEN
Humans aren’t the only ones who like it in the armpit. Our fellow great apes — orangutans, chimps, bonobos and gorillas — also squeal in response to tickling, and new research shows this behavior may be the evolutionary root of human ...
From LIZZIE BUCHEN,
Wired,
4 Jun 2009
Over the past decade, the number of people on Earth shot up by more than 13 percent, to nearly 6.8 billion people. To make room for all the hungry, breeding, CO2-emitting bodies on our small planet, we’ve ravaged Earth’s surface with staggering feats ...
From LIZZIE BUCHEN,
Wired,
29 May 2009
1919: During a total solar eclipse, Sir Arthur Eddington performs the first experimental test of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
In 1919, Newton’s law of universal gravity still dominated scientific discourse, as it provided extremely ...
From LIZZIE BUCHEN,
Wired,
29 May 2009
Separate brain regions firing in unison may be what keeps us focused on important things while ignoring distractions.
A deluge of visual information hits our eyes every second, yet we’re able to focus on the minuscule fraction that’s relevant to our ...
From LIZZIE BUCHEN,
Wired,
28 May 2009
Meerkat babies may be the most adorable creatures in southern Africa, but their colony mates manage to stop spoiling them after only a few months. As the wobbly little critters age, their begging loses its clout.
For a meerkat pup’s first 100 days, it ...
From LIZZIE BUCHEN,
Wired,
22 May 2009
The periodical cicada is one of the world’s longest-living insects, but nobody knows why it times its death with bizarre precision: It either lives for 13 years or 17 years, on the dot. Now, Japanese researchers have developed a model that may explain ...
From LIZZIE BUCHEN,
Wired,
18 May 2009
You are how you email: A new technique can tell people apart using only the timestamps in their Sent folders.
In the interactive, real-time world of Twitter, blogs and World of Warcraft, timing is one of the most salient aspects of social behavior. Now, ...
From LIZZIE BUCHEN,
Wired,
15 May 2009
A new technique for watching the developing embryo has led to insights into how a homogeneous ball of cells transforms into an embryo with different types of tissues.
In the normal zebrafish embryo, certain signaling molecules make sure the ball of ...
From LIZZIE BUCHEN,
Wired,
13 May 2009
Dark-skinned smokers may be at greater risk for nicotine addiction than their paler counterparts, a new study finds.
Researchers found that in African Americans, darker skin — specifically that acquired by sun exposure, not genetics — is directly ...
From LIZZIE BUCHEN,
Wired,
8 May 2009
After half a century of searching, scientists have finally discovered what happens to the world’s second largest shark every winter: It has a Caribbean hideout.
Basking sharks, which can grow up to 33 feet long and weigh more than a Hummer H1, spend ...
From LIZZIE BUCHEN,
Wired,
7 May 2009
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