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By Matt Kaplan of Nature magazine The image of a Tyrannosaurus rex racing after a jeep in the 1993 film Jurassic Park inspired a generation's ideas about the extinct predator, but for decades studies have concluded that dinosaurs could not move quickly. An analysis now suggests that although big dinosaurs are unlikely to have been able to run, the animals could instead have reached a fair clip by power-walking
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With more than 600,000 hacking attempts on Facebook every day, one might be forgiven for asking why we're so willing to share the intimate details of our everyday lives.
Read More »CT Scans of Baby Mammoths Reveal Ice Age Mystery
CT scan of baby woolly mammoth named Lyuba LAS VEGAS Computed tomography (CT) scans of two extraordinarily well-preserved baby woolly mammoths from Siberia have yielded startling new insights into these iconic Ice Age beasts. Previously examinations of the external features of the mammoths suggested that the two creatures were quite similar, exhibiting the same developmental stage and similar age at death. But the new full-body scans the first ever obtained for largely intact mammoths tell a different story.
Read More »CT Scans of Baby Mammoths Reveal Ice Age Mystery
CT scan of baby woolly mammoth named Lyuba LAS VEGAS Computed tomography (CT) scans of two extraordinarily well-preserved baby woolly mammoths from Siberia have yielded startling new insights into these iconic Ice Age beasts.
Read More »Calendar: MIND Events in November and December
NOVEMBER 4–5 According to the World Health Organization, one in four of us will develop at least one mental illness or behavioral disorder in our lifetime. Depression alone affects an estimated 121 million people worldwide. At the two-day EMBO/EMBL Science and Society Conference , biologists, psychologists and neuroscientists will explore the ethical and social implications of major mental illnesses as well as their causes and treatment
Read More »Channeling the Energy of Sports
Creations made of Wilson products, like a tennis-ball chandelier and a football pyramid, adorn the whimsical Chicago office, designed by Gensler.
Read More »Stylish Office Branding
If you have a cool product, follow the lead of these four innovative companies in building your own brand, products, and materials into your workplace. Wilson , the Chicago-based manufacturer of sports equipment, wanted a way to design a space that would channel the energy of professional sports players into the creative energy of its employees
Read More »IgNobel Prize WINNER: The beetle and the beer bottle, a tragic love story.
I promised I’d cover all the winners, and here we go! Beginning with this year’s IgNobel prize in Biology, which goes to a study on the Australian Jewel Beetle. Poor Australian Jewel Beetle. For his is a tragic story of mistaken identities and forbidden lust.
Read More »Botched surgeries prompt warning from plastic surgeons
American Society of Plastic Surgeons spotlights cautionary tale of 40-year-old woman's botched surgeries
Read More »Texas Threatens Shutdown of College Physics Programs for Low Graduation Rates
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Texas higher-education officials delivered a stern message to physicists yesterday that the state is likely to stick to plans to phase out 'low-performing' physics programs within the next year or two if they cannot demonstrate compelling plans to improve.
Read More »Are Your Telecommuters Slackers?
It's 10 am. Do you know what your telecommuter is doing? Does "working from home" mean "hardly working"?
Read More »Vampires Vs. Zombies: Max Brooks Is The (Tasty) Brain Behind Spike TV’s Live Undead Special
Nearly 40 years after Mel Brooks breathed new life into Frankenstein, his son, Max, author of "World War Z," is unearthing that other undead goldmine: zombies. You'd think the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft would have settled into a nice comfortable comedy writing gig. But since his days writing for Saturday Night Live, Max Brooks has instead forged a career in an unlikely niche: zombie expert
Read More »Visualizing Regulations To Prevent You From Being Snookered By Greenwashing
It's hard to know what products mean when they say they are "environmentally friendly" or "fully compostable," but there are rules about what companies can and can't claim about their products.
Read More »The Paradox Of Expanded Choices: What Too Much Of A Good Thing Means For Consumers
Why isn't a product line catching on? Your company may be offering too much.
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