ALAS poor Aegyptopithecus zeuxis! We knew you well.
Check out this story on The Australian:
THE brain of an ancestor of humans, apes and monkeys has been reconstructed for the first time, suggesting that the sophisticated mental capacity of modern primates evolved later than generally thought.
WHEW, where can I get one of these goggles, heh.
Here’s an excerpt from the Agence France-Presse story:
YOKOHAMA, Japan–Japanese scientists who want to be in tune with their work can now stand in the eye of a typhoon or observe close-up walls of whirling wind — with the help of some goggles.
HERE’S an interesting lingering effect of the Ice Age: reduced gravity in northern Canada.
Check out this excerpt from the CBC News article:
Moving to northern Canada won’t make it any easier to fit into your old swimsuit, but it will help fool your bathroom scale into thinking you’ve lost a gram or two, thanks to a lower force of gravity in some regions.
IN A FEW days, nine Filipino high school students will be meeting 1,500 of their counterparts from over 40 countries for the prestigious Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.
This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the annual Intel Philippine Science Fair, the local version of the ISEF, which picks the country’s best young scientists and engineers in high school.
The country’s delegation to ISEF 2007, to be held on May 13 to 19, will compete in the Team and Individual categories and will be vying for scholarships, research grants, scientific field trips, internships and the grand prize of a $50,000 college scholarship.
TALK about a massive undertaking.
A free website will catalogue the planet’s 1.8 million known living creatures, allowing scientists from all over the world to collaborate online.
Here’s an excerpt from the Agence France-Presse article:
