février 2016 ~ sciencelovers

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dimanche 28 février 2016

Spider

23:58:00 kais

Home is where the heart is. And it’s also where the beetles, spiders, ants and flies are. A study published Tuesday in the journal Peerj by researchers at North Carolina State University found that we share our houses with over 500 species of arthropods...

Leopard

02:00:00 kais

VICTIMES. Une double rangée de clôtures coiffées de barbelés comme une longue balafre sur les montagnes enneigées du Cachemire : cette frontière, l'une des plus militarisées au monde, a sectionné en deux le territoire de la faune de la région. Construite en...

samedi 27 février 2016

Les requins

01:38:00 kais

Poignards, scies découpeuses de chairs... les dents des requins sont des armes redoutables ! Et il ne faut pas compter sur la mauvaise hygiène bucco-dentaire des squales, ni sur leur tendance à mordre dans des corps solides très durs, pour leur laisser des trous...

vendredi 26 février 2016

Gorillas

01:57:00 kais

Gorillas sing and hum when eating, a discovery that could help shed light on how language evolved in early humans. Singing seems to be a way for gorillas to express contentment with their meal, as well as for the head of the family to communicate to others that it...

jeudi 25 février 2016

Javan tiger

02:21:00 kais

The Javan tiger was a big cat, but not in comparison to other tiger species. The males weighed in at 220 to 310 pounds and the females averaged 170 to 250 pounds. Their small size was thought to be attributed to the size of the available prey in their native land of Java,...

mardi 23 février 2016

Huge space

21:11:00 kais

new study suggests that there are around 700 quintillion planets in the universe, but only one like Earth. It’s a revelation that’s both beautiful and terrifying at the same time.Astrophysicist Erik Zackrisson from Uppsala University in Sweden arrived...

Killer Whale ORCA

09:19:00 kais

With sleek black backs and bright white bellies and eye patches, killer whales, or orcas, are easily distinguishable from other aquatic animals. One of the ocean’s largest predators, male orcas can grow to 9.5 m (32 ft) in length, while females are slightly smaller at...

TURTLE

00:17:00 kais

Turtles are basically reptiles. They are characterized by a shell that develops from their ribs and serve as a protective cover. The earliest known turtles date back to around 215 million years and are therefore considered to be the oldest members of the reptile family....

lundi 22 février 2016

A virus is taming Australia’s bunny menace, and giving endangered species new life

12:09:00 kais

For more than 150 years, Australia has been plagued by rabbits. First introduced by an English settler as hunting fodder in 1859, the European rabbit population soon ballooned to an estimated 10 billion, contributing to extensive environmental damage and the extinction...

dimanche 21 février 2016

Some Of The Strangest Exoplanets In Space

23:20:00 kais

The silica particles swept along by HD 189773b’s harsh winds may form glass, and could even be responsible for the planet’s azure color. TrES-2b, on the other hand, appears blacker than both coal and black acrylic paint. Scientists aren’t entirely sure why the...

Africanized Honey

15:02:00 kais

An experiment gone wrong, in 1957 a Brazilian bee keeper who was trying to interbreed European and African honey bees accidently let some of his “pets” get away. Much more aggressive than their European counterparts, these genetically mixed “killer bees” have since then...

Deaths talker scorpio

14:56:00 kais

This highly venomous scorpion residing primarily in North Africa and the Middle East is responsible for over 75% of scorpion related deaths every year. Although healthy adults usually only feel unbearable pain, children that are envenomated suffer fever, coma, convulsions,...

vendredi 19 février 2016

L'hippocampes

15:54:00 kais

Chez les hippocampes, c'est le mâle qui garde les œufs dans son ventre, subit les contractions et accouche. Dans le monde animal, la palme du "superpapa" pourrait bien revenir à l'hippocampe : chez ce poisson, c'est en effet le mâle qui porte les œufs dans son ventre...

jeudi 18 février 2016

Dangerous fish: Puffer

14:25:00 kais

The puffer, which is also called swellfish, or blowfish, is any member of a group of about 90 species of fishes of the family Tetraodontidae, noted for their ability when disturbed to inflate themselves so greatly with air and water that they become globular in form....

mercredi 17 février 2016

Star Wars

15:08:00 kais

If converted to the iconic Star Wars' opening crawl, this headline would read, "Just a few days ago, they discovered hundreds of galaxies kinda not that far away..." That's because researchers from four countries converged in Australia and used a radio telescope...

mardi 16 février 2016

Danger Belgique

16:13:00 kais

La Belgique vient de redémarrer deux vieilles centrales, malgré les découverte l’an dernier de 16 000 fissures sur deux des réacteurs, et une explosion survenue récemment dans un autre. Ils risquent de provoquer un nouveau Tchernobyl, en plein cœur de...

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