Science Etcetera, Marsday 20081125

Posted on 25th November 2008 by ideonexus in Science Etcetera

Pygmy tarsiers are primates with huge eyes that cannot move, so they have heads that can turn 180 degrees. Thought extinct for 85 years, they have been found in a cloud forest in Indonesia.

Pygmy Tarsier Credit: Sharon Gursky-Doyen/Texas A&M University

It has always been assumed that farms gave way to villages, but an 11,000-year-old temple appears to have been built by hunter-gatherers.

10 Years of the ISS in Pictures

A man suffering from AIDS appears to have been cured by a bone marrow transplant.

A 4-D microscope (the fourth dimension being time) allows researchers to study chemical reactions on the molecular level. There are also video demonstrations online, like one of DNA unfolding.

4-D electron microscopy Credit: Nano Letters; images and diagram produced at Caltech

One gram of cocaine costs four meters of rainforest.

Discovery Channel’s new Time Warp series has lots of great videos online that put science into slow-motion and time-lapse video.

Sleep helps remember a complex task thought forgotten

Maglev Wind Turbine

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1. I’m digging the wind turbine videos. When do we get to see them fight?

   -BMF

   Comment by BMF — November 25, 2008 @ 9:23 am

2. Thanks for not riding the media’s jock by calling the Tarsier a Furby look alike. The Tarsier lacks a beak and IR port on it’s head. :)

   Comment by John — November 25, 2008 @ 7:13 pm

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