tags: bpr3.org/?p=52, birds, aves, ornithology, Zosterops somadikartai, Togian white-eye, Indonesia, SulawesiAn undated artist's rendering of Zosterops somadikartai, or Togian white-eye. This small greenish bird that has been playing hide-and-seek with ornithologists...

Baron Lornd von Etvs was born into an aristocratic family in Vsrosnamnyi, Hungary - a town near Ukraine - 160 years ago, on July 27th, 1848.Fortunately, Lrnd wrote both in Hungarian and German which is why most of the world can learn about his results (and...

It’s Lovely! I’ll Take It!: Aaaahhhhhhhh!(tags: amusing real-estate photography)Cthulhu Tract | By Fred Van Lente and Steve Ellis(tags: Cthulhu tract design Jack-Chick religion)...

How many tablespoons of water in all the world's oceans. I wanted to know for tomorrow's post. See this week's Musing.Anne has been amazingly faithful with her Sunday cyberpics. Thanks, Anne, for adding the artist's temperament and grace to Science Musings....

There is a new site, outofprintmath, that is collecting information on which out-of-print books the mathematical reading public would like to see brought back in print. At the moment there are 67 books listed, many of them are surprisingly well-known. I had...

schliz writes "Space flight planners have unveiled a new spaceship design for a joint EU/Russian trip to the Moon. The EU will be building the crew capsule, using technology developed for the automatic cargo system used to supply the International Space Station."...

In a major step in the stem cell study, the Swedish researchers have identified that the spinal cord may contain the stem cell that can be used to a new, non-surgical treatment for debilitating spinal-cord injuries. In a developing embryo, stem cells differentiate...

The opening symposium for the 67th annual Society of Developmental Biology meeting was held in the Irvine Hall on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. The cavernous auditorium is quite ornate with a massive pipe organ lining the front......

The UK biotechnology and contract research company Epistem announced today that it has been selected by Humanetics Corporation of Minnesota, USA, to provide specialized preclinical efficacy testing services for agents likely to protect the intestinal epithelium...

Just realized that I haven’t done one of these in a while, and it saves me for having to produce actual content for one more day. The song listed is the last one that triggered the alert.Hum (song: Stars)Depeche Mode (song: Enjoy the Silence)The White...