Author Archives: agnieszka

It may not look much like Kermit, being bloated and bright purple with a long, pointy nose, but a frog recently discovered in the mountains of southern India may well become the next big amphibian celebrity. Described by Franky Bossuyt … Continue reading →

Now if I were an alien, where would I be? According to astrobiologist Maggie Turnbull of the University of Arizona in Tucson, the best bet would be 37 Gem, the 37th brightest star in the constellation of Gemini, some 42 … Continue reading →

Have you ever had your heart broken or your feelings hurt? That pain may be more real than you’d guess. Researchers in the October 10 issue of Science report that the brain responds to rejection in the same way as … Continue reading →

Do you blame your genes for what you do? A study in the October 10 issue of Science says that honeybees should. An individual bee’s occupation can be predicted by knowing what genes are active in its brain. “We have … Continue reading →

The world’s oceans may be becoming more acidic due to the burning of fossil fuels, say researchers in the Sept. 25 Nature. Ken Caldeira and Michael E. Wickett from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California used a computer model … Continue reading →

Saturn’s moon, Titan, has always been rather mysterious: Its thick nitrogen atmosphere and methane clouds have made observations of its surface difficult. But now Donald Campbell of Cornell University and his colleagues report in the Oct. 2 Science online that … Continue reading →

Fugitive gorillas like Little Joe may be getting all the headlines, but zoos may have a more long-term problem on their hands: Stressing out their captive carnivores. A new study by British zoologists in the Oct. 2 Nature says that … Continue reading →

Have you ever noticed how some people look eerily like their dogs and vice versa? Now there’s genetic evidence to account for some of those similarities. Researchers from the Institute for Genomic Research, working with J. Craig Venter and others … Continue reading →

Astronomers from the University of Massachusetts and the University of Virginia announced last week that they have proof that the Milky Way is a cannibal, gobbling up the tiny Sagittarius galaxy. The researchers have mapped the full extent of Sagittarius … Continue reading →

Stone-age Brits quickly gave up eating fish when meat and grains became easily available, researchers report in the Sept. 25 Nature. Archeologist Michael P. Richards of the University of Bradford, UK, and his colleagues analyzed human bones from coastal and … Continue reading →