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Candid Camera (Trap): The World s Rarest Big Cat

mercredi 18 décembre 2013 — Energy & Sustainability,Mind & Brain,Space,More Science,Evolution,Health,Technology

“The Amur or Far Eastern leopard, Panthera pardus orientalis, is the world’s most endangered big cat, and the only one known to be adapted to the cold, snowy environment in which it... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Parasites that Cause Chagas Disease in Humans May Also Be Killing Tiny Australian Marsupials

mercredi 18 décembre 2013 — Energy & Sustainability,More Science,Evolution

Why are the woylies all dying? Since 2001 the populations of these tiny Australian marsupials have mysteriously crashed by as much as 90 percent. The species, which had already been driven to... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Climate Change Threatens Retirement Savings

mercredi 18 décembre 2013 — Energy & Sustainability,Society & Policy,More Science,Ecology,Energy & Sustainability,Climate,Environment,Evolution

LONDON – The Asset Owners Disclosure Project asked 1,000 of the world's largest asset owners what they were doing to guard against the possibility that their investments in fossil fuels... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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What Is Iceland without Ice?

mercredi 18 décembre 2013 — Energy & Sustainability,Society & Policy,More Science,Climate,Energy & Sustainability,Environment,Evolution

SOLHEIMAJOKULL, Iceland – A fierce wind shrieks down the glacier slope, flinging ice and grit like a weather-witch from an old Icelandic saga. [More] -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Building a Better Lobster Trap

mercredi 18 décembre 2013 — Energy & Sustainability,Society & Policy,Ecology,Energy & Sustainability,Environment,Evolution

Lifting a lobster casita is easier than it looks. The device is little more than an underwater cement table on stumpy legs that most people in the Caribbean use in place of lobster traps. To... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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From My Archives: Quark Inventor Murray Gell-Mann Doubts Science Will Discover "Something Else"

mardi 17 décembre 2013 — Evolution,Mind & Brain,More Science

To commemorate the 50 th anniversary of Murray Gell-Mann’s first paper on quarks, Gell-Mann biographer George Johnson has written several terrific posts about one of the truly great... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Good News for One of the World's Rarest Monkeys

mardi 17 décembre 2013 — Energy & Sustainability,More Science,Evolution

You know that a species is in rough shape when a population increase of just 20 animals is cause for celebration. But that’s the case in northern Vietnam this month, where one of the few... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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A new living species of large mammal: hello, Tapirus kabomani!

mardi 17 décembre 2013 — Evolution

Illustration of Tapirus kabomani by G. Braga, from Cozzuol et al. (2013). For some considerable time now, there have been rumours of an incredible zoological discovery: a new species of living... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Neandertal Grave Attests to Complex Cognition

mardi 17 décembre 2013 — Evolution

Neandertal burial pit at La Chapelle-aux Saints in France. Image: Courtesy of C?dric Beauval Some 60,000 years ago, in a small limestone cave in central France, Neandertals dug a grave and laid... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Shark Cull Plan Draws Ire

lundi 16 décembre 2013 — More Science,Society & Policy,Evolution,More Science,Biology

Western Australia’s plan to start culling sharks in a “more aggressive” attempt to prevent attacks on humans could severely damage populations of threatened great whites, experts... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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