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Well for children anyway: "The less a child sleeps, the more likely he or she is to become overweight, according to researchers from Un...

The recent retreat of the Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier in Greenland Three Papers in the current issue of Science show the rapid changes that ...

Vendia rachiata (?) which looks a bit like a trilobite but probably isn't While browsing the internet for information on those strange e...

The only fossil specimen of Sharovipteryx mirabilis Sharovipteryx mirabilis is one of the odder creatures to be found in the fossil record...

The common frog ( Rana temporaria ) mating and spawning season is in full swing in the garden pond. There is a fairly large amount of spawn...

There is a nice article in todays Independent called 'How to buy fish with a clear conscience' "For years, the unpalatable deta...

There are some amazing origami design created for ther MIT origami competition ( via ) Two of the winners are Jason Ku and Brian Chan and...

Veliger larva of the gastropod, Fusitriton oregonensis by Louise Page Posterior of juvenile kinorhynch , Pycnophyes kielensis by Andreas ...

After reading about the pro-test march in oxford via scientific activist I decided it was time to not just be annoyed at the awful behavio...

"Which? has today complained to the Advertising Standards Authority that the Kellogg's Coco Pops Straws TV advert is misleading and...

The Arctic and global warming Researcher describes possible disruption to marine mammals' food web Studying Arctic phytoplankton has pla...

Beautiful calligraphy by mouneer al shaarani There's more at his Gallery ( via ). See also The Art of Arabic Calligraphy Arabic calli...

This story in the Washington post 'The Ugly Face of Crime' is being widely discussed. The original article on which this story is b...

This could be a far bigger problem than temperature rise: "Increased carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly making the world's oceans...

In the latest issue of Science Joan Roughgarden has written a review that challenges current ideas about sexual selection. "Theories ...

Darren Naish a vertebrate paleontologist from the University of Portsmouth has a nice new blog : "Welcome to my blog site, which over ...

I have found the website of the 3d museum via palaeoblog : "Welcome to 3D Museum Website, maintained by the Vertebrate Paleobiology Lab...

In the last few years many astonishingly well preserved fossils have been discovered in the Herefordshire Lagerstätte . The most amazing fea...

Tikal Temple I 'between 1929 and 1957' I was browsing the Harvard Visual Information Access database and found that they have loads...

I have just heard about the atlas 'One Planet, Many People' via the map room and discovered that it is available to download here ....