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ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2008) — Female spiders are voracious predators and consume a wide range of prey, which sometimes includes their mates. A number of hypotheses have been proposed for why females eat males before or after mating. A female wolf spider, Hogna helluo, consuming a male...

moved to alternate theories

The colour-code for members means nothing to me. I can't decipher it fast enough for it to make any sense. I can't tell who is a mod and who is a forum leader and who is what. Not that it matters a great deal, but if that's what the colour code was designed for it doesnt work very well.

ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2008) — Of all environments, space must be the most hostile: It is freezing cold, close to absolute zero, there is a vacuum, so no oxygen, and the amount of lethal radiation from stars is very high. This is why humans need to be carefully protected when they enter this...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 8, 2008) — How did the universe come to be? What is it made of? What is mass? Can science prove that there are other dimensions? The Atlas experiment under construction at the LHC site, deep beneath the Alps. The large tubes that surround the empty space are magnets used to...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 8, 2008) — The hunt for the Higgs boson, the most highly sought-after particle in physics, received a boost this month with the release of two new results from the Tevatron particle collider at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab in Illinois. Scientists based at Fermilab...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 8, 2008) — Substances in marijuana show promise for fighting deadly drug-resistant bacterial infections, including so-called "superbugs," without causing the drug's mood-altering effects, scientists in Italy and the United Kingdom are reporting. Substances in marijuana show...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 7, 2008) — Large flightless birds of the southern continents – African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, South American rheas and the New Zealand kiwi – do not share a common flightless ancestor as once believed. Male ostrich in Nairobi National Park, Kenya...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) implicates the primary chemical used to produce hard plastics—bisphenol A (BPA)—as a risk factor for metabolic syndrome and its consequences. Polycarbonate plastic bottles like these contain bisphenol A. (Credit...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2008) — Scientists from Oregon State University and the Natural History Museum in London have announced the discovery of the oldest known fossil of a gecko, with body parts that are forever preserved in life-like form after 100 million years of being entombed in amber...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2008) — Mice given quercetin, a naturally occurring substance found in fruits and vegetables, were less likely to contract the flu, according to a study published by The American Physiological Society. The study also found that stressful exercise increased the...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2008) — Physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b (Ωb). Once produced, the decay of the Omega-sub-b (Ωb) proceeds like fireworks. The...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 2, 2008) — What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? The findings, published this month in the Journal of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, indicate that...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 1, 2008) — Shedding some genetically induced excess baggage may have helped a tiny fish thrive in freshwater and outsize its marine ancestors, according to a UBC study published today in Science Express. Lateral plate morphs in marine stickleback. Complete morph (top)...

Nuggler requested something about bugglybugs, so here goes: Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoan parasites that belong to the genus Leishmania and is transmitted by the bite of certain species of sand fly, including flies in the genus Lutzomyia in the New World and Phlebotomus in the...

ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2008) — In a feat of biological prestidigitation likely to turn the field of regenerative medicine on its head, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) co-director Doug Melton and post doctoral fellow Qiao "Joe" Zhou report having achieved what has long been a dream and...

My work requires me to round my students' grades to the nearest 5. Excel didn't seem to have a function which could do this, so I set out to do it for myself. After an hour or so of experimenting, I came up with this function...

cloud types often depend upon the terrain. For instance, lenticular clouds are more common in mountainous areas

proof? you call that proof? they look just like clouds to me.

the video seems to show some remarkably regular stratus clouds. I've seen them myself too. They're clouds. Clouds can form some amazing shapes, I once saw one that looked an awful lot like a flying saucer. Turned out it's known as a lenticular cloud... fairly common in mountainous areas.