| China Explores a Frontier 2 Miles Deep China has unveiled a submersible designed to go deeper than any other in the world, giving it access to 99.8 percent of the ocean floor and its minerals. feeds.nytimes.com |
Science Weekly: Back from the dead Kevin Fong is a consultant anaesthetist at University College Hospital in London. He's a stalwart of this programme and is usually here to talk about astronauts or space medicine. But today he is talking about something much closer to his day job: he has made a TV documentary for the BBC, Back from the Dead, about the use of extreme cooling in hospitals.One evening last week the Natural History Museum threw open its doors so that members of the public could meet the scientists who work behind the scenes. The Guardian's Jon Henley took the opportunity to meet two of the forensic scientists who help the police identify human remains.Plus, Monica Desai caught up with Jessica Grahn, a research scientist at the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Dr Grahn has been researching the neural mechanisms of rhythm processing. Monica started by asking her why humans developed rhythm and music.Follow the podcast on our Science Weekly Twitter feed and receive updates on all breaking science news stories from Guardian Science. Email scienceweeklypodcast@gmail.com. Join our Facebook group. Listen back through our archive.Subscribe free via iTunes to ensure every episode gets delivered. (Here is the non-iTunes URL feed).Alok JhaIain ChambersJon HenleyMonica Desai guardian.co.uk |
Seagull photo takes winning prize A stunning picture of a seagull on an Isles of Scilly beach wins a Liverpool photographer £5,000. bbc.co.uk |
Bridges built to help Borneo orangutans meet mates By JULIA ZAPPEI 2010-10-18T10:44:45ZKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Endangered orangutans on Borneo island are using fire hoses slung across rivers by humans to help them move around isolated forests to potentially meet new mates and boost the species' chances for survival, an environmental group said Monday.... hosted.ap.org |
Ancient legends once walked among early humans? At least one scholar has an intriguing answer: "The discovery of material evidence of a distinct hominin (human) lineage in Central Asia as recently as 30,000 years ago does not come as a surprise to those who have looked at the historical and anecdotal evidence of 'wild people' inhabiting the region," wrote folklore scholar Michael Heaney of the United Kingdom's Bodleian Library Oxford, in a letter to The Times of London. rssfeeds.usatoday.com |