Just Plain WEIRD #2
The SARS-CoV-2 virus endures for days on plastic or metal but disintegrates soon after landing on copper surfaces. Here’s why. Copper wire (Getty Images) By Jim Morrison, SmithsonianMag.Com – 2020 Apr 14 – When researchers reported last month that the novel coronavirus causing …
The animal trekked an average of 28 miles per day, covering a distance of 2,175 miles during her journey from Spitsbergen to Ellesmere Island. The little fox that could (Elise Stromseng/Norwegian Polar Institute) – By Meilan Solly, SmithsonianMag.Com – On March 26, 2018, …
Pride of eight lions photographed snoozing on tarmac in Kruger National Park Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage – By Helen Sullivan, @helenrsullivan 2020 Apr 16 – Last modified on Fri 2020 Apr 17 – 07.56 EDT – This lion …
By Loz Blain – New research has identified the pathways through which the presence or absence of certain smells can trigger or switch off fat storage in the intestines. olly18/Depositphotos. – Olfactory signals can switch fat storage mechanisms on and off without having any …
By Rich Haridy – We knew the distinctive smell of rain on dry earth was the result of a chemical released by bacteria, but new research helps explain why the bacteria evolved to do this. mihtiander/Depositphotos. – New research from an international team of …
A field of onions waiting to be buried in Nyssa, Idaho on 2020 Apr 10. (Joseph Haeberle / The New York Time) – By David Yaffe-Bellany and MICHAEL CORKERY The New York Times | 2020 Apr 13| 11:23 AM – In Wisconsin and …
By Michael Irving – A digital recreation of one of the main samples of Homo antecessor, which has now been placed on the family tree thanks to studies of ancient proteins in its teeth. Professor Laura Martín-Francés. – It’s hard to piece together the …
Sixty-four-year-old lands in field after grabbing ejection handle to steady himself, French air investigators find. By Guardian staff – 2020 Apr 13 – A 64-year-old man accidentally pulled the ejection handle during a spin in a French fighter jet. Photograph: Dominic Favre/EPA – …
By Katie Hunt, CNN 2020 Apr 09 – Paleontologists crossing the Río Yurúa in Amazonian Perú, with the Santa Rosa fossil site in the background. – A crew of now-extinct monkeys made a treacherous transatlantic journey on a natural raft from …
By Ben Coxworth – An early version of the U-CAT sea turtle robot. Tallinn University of Technology. – Marine aquaculture pens have to be regularly checked for holes, plus the fish need to be inspected for disease or parasites. And although the job is …
