Triceratops to potential mate: “Hey baby, check out my frill and big horns…you know what they say, big horns, big everything, awwwww yeahhhhh…”
Apparently, that’s how hook-ups went down in the Mesozoic, at least for the famously horned and frilled…
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Sexual Signaling, Dino-Style
Posted by Discover Magazine on March 21st, 2018
Posted in Astronomy, Astronomy & Space, Earth & Climate, Environment, Feature, Science General 
Tags: Animals, ceratopsians 
No Comments »Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe
Posted by NSF News on March 8th, 2018
For additional information on this breakthrough, NSF has produced the video “The birth of the first stars.”
For the first time, astronomers have detected a signal from stars emerging in the early universe. Using a radio antenna not much larger than a…
Posted in Environment, Science General, Strange news, Technology Tags: ancient, Astronomers, first stars, signal, Universe No Comments »Yes, Rockets CAN Fly in a Vacuum
Posted by Discover Magazine on February 25th, 2018
“Rockets can’t fly in space! There’s no air for the engine to burn in space! And there’s no air for the rocket to push against in space! WE’VE NEVER LEFT EARTH!”
So goes the cry of people who don’t believe we landed on the Moon — at le…
Posted in Astronomy, Astronomy & Space, Earth & Climate, Environment, Feature, Science General Tags: engine, Rockets, there’s, Vacuum No Comments »Enrico Fermi: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Posted by Scientific American Content: Global on February 19th, 2018
David N. Schwartz talk about his latest book, The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age.
– Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Posted in Environment, Physics, Science General, Technology Tags: enrico, Enrico Fermi, everything, who knew everything No Comments »This Is Why Some Bats Have Hairy Tongues
Posted by Discover Magazine on February 9th, 2018
Nectar-drinking bats possess hairy tongues, and now scientists reveal these hairs are designed to maximize how much sweet nectar the bats can guzzle.
The South American Pallas’ long-tongued bat, Glossophaga soricina, dips its long tongue in and out of…
Posted in Astronomy, Astronomy & Space, Earth & Climate, Environment, Feature, Science General Tags: hairy tongues, Nectar, Tongue, Tongues No Comments »
