Robert Wood, a National Geographic 2014 Emerging Explorer and award-winning engineer, is working on entirely new classes of robots—including a fleet of tiny, robotic bees—that may one day transform space ... Read more >
Sunday, 28 September 2014
Dillie the Deer: Love on Tiny Hooves ...
In summer 2004, veterinarian Melanie Butera received an unexpected patient: a blind, dying fawn named Dillie. Butera and her husband nursed Dillie to health. Now, Dillie—who snacks on lollipops and has her own bedroom in ... Read more >
Gray Wolves in North America ...
Natives of Eurasia, gray wolves (also known as timber wolves) spread to North America via the Bering land bridge during the Pleistocene Ice Age. By the time European settlers reached our Continent, these hardy predators had spread throughout much of North America as they shared the range of their favored prey species (moose, elk and bison). Read more >
Obama vastly expands Pacific reserve ...
US President Barack Obama has vastly increased marine protection in the Pacific by declaring 1 million square kilometres of ocean part of a giant marine reserve. Read more >
This is what the Future looks like ...
As you may have heard on the grapevine (for which read me standing on a soapbox yelling), Futures has a new anthology out. And if you haven’t heard that and bought your copy, where have you been?? Read more >
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