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A single hit on the head by the termite Termes panamensis (Snyder), which possesses the fastest mandible strike ever recorded, is sufficient to kill a would-be nest invader.

Sandcastle worms live in intertidal surf, building sturdy tube-shaped homes from bits of sand and shell and their own natural glue.

Balikpapan has decided to take its carbon footprint as seriously as ” ’til death do you part”.

Darwin’s anniversary, the tale of the mockingbirds, and Lonesome George.

Despite broad “dolphin safe” practices, fishing activities have continued to restrict the growth of at least one Pacific Ocean dolphin population.

New research shows that we should be looking to the ground, not the sky, to see where climate change could have its most perilous impact on life on Earth — global warming actually changes the molecular structure of organic matter in soil.

No matter what you see in the movies, archaeology isn’t really about finding ancient temples or golden idols. It’s about the day-to-day “stuff” — the material culture — of people’s lives.

As the economy continues to reel, a new report finds that 4 million American households lost economic security between 2000 and 2006, and that a majority of America’s middle class households are either borderline or at high risk of falling out of the middle class altogether.

My favorite language blog remains language log. But I recently learned of another one that is worth reading.

A new study shows that love can last – physiologically.

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the woolly mammoth, an extinct species of elephant that was adapted to living in the cold environment of the northern hemisphere.

The fact that people in Austria now feel truly Austrian is in part due to a German car – the Volkswagen Beetle. That is the first finding of an Austrian Science Fund FWF project that is examining the extent to which consumer goods have influenced the formation of the Austrian nation. The project reveals that, in the decades crucial to the nation’s creation, the Volkswagen became an object of identification and integration for the Austrians. The next stage will investigate the influence foodstuffs have had on this process.

The fact that people in Austria now feel truly Austrian is in part due to a German car – the Volkswagen Beetle. That is the first finding of an Austrian Science Fund FWF project that is examining the extent to which consumer goods have influenced the formation of the Austrian nation. The project reveals that, in the decades crucial to the nation’s creation, the Volkswagen became an object of identification and integration for the Austrians. The next stage will investigate the influence foodstuffs have had on this process.

Have you got the new iPhone yet? Do you like changing jobs now and again because you get bored otherwise? Do you go on holiday to different places every year? Then maybe your neural connection between ventral striatum and hippocampus is particularly well developed.

Neuroscientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine have created the first comprehensive map of genes likely to be involved in bipolar disorder.

An comprehensive and objective study of The Ottomans has never been done by now. The purpose of this study is to make a general comparison between the Ottoman Empire and today’s Turkey whereas we also carry out the cryptographic study of the Ottomans related to its Hebrew root.

Russian scientists say that successful recovery from AIDS, about which German scientists recently reported, requires years of testing. Even if the patient in fact got rid of AIDS, 10-15 years would pass before the technology would be introduced into clinical practice.

I’m still on hiatus, but I had to take time to add this to my blog, especially since my old posting on peak oil continues to get enough hits to stay on the most popular list–though it is not as popular as “Old men chasing young women: A good thing.”

Today, a daily science news update that I enjoy reading pointed to an upsurge of interest in old-new form of renewable energy: OTEC, or ocean thermal energy conversion.