The modern vampire squid is a cryptic creature. It lives a slow life deep in the ocean — far from shore — where it makes a living by scavenging on whatever dead things happen to sink past it on their… [+6606 chars]
Shapiros Nature Ecology study also focused on what may have happened to other polar bear genomes during periods of low icein this case, around 120,000 or 125,000 years ago when, according to Shapiro,… [+3060 chars]
<li>McCloskey, M. & Cohen, N. J. Catastrophic interference in connectionist networks: The sequential learning problem. In Psychology of Learning and Motivation, vol. 24, 109165 (Elsevier, 1989). … [+7213 chars]
A new study led by the University of Southampton has found that stretching of the continents is likely to have caused one of the most abrupt and extreme global warming events in the history of our pl… [+2729 chars]
A photographer was out camping when a SpaceX rocket shot across the sky in front of him and he was lucky enough to capture spectacular video footage of it. Justin Anderson was in Manitoba provincial… [+2887 chars]
An international group of astronomers, led by Juan Diego Soler of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), have found the imprint of the bubbles produced by the explosion of dying star… [+4608 chars]