I’ve got your missing links right here (9 June 2012)

I’ve got your missing links right here (9 June 2012)
I’ve got your missing links right here (9 June 2012)
Top picks This is really important: a new technique deduces a foetus’ genome… from its parents’ DNA. Good coverage by Alison Motluk. Thrilling story, spanning 1.75 billion yrs, about how an undersea eruption created an American town. By Dana Hunter. Important, for anyone covering evolution. If platypuses wrote the biology textbooks, by T. Ryan Gregory. […]

Ostriches sleep like platypuses (and look wide awake when they do)

Ostriches sleep like platypuses (and look wide awake when they do)
Ostriches sleep like platypuses (and look wide awake when they do)
How does an ostrich sleep? Almost imperceptibly, it seems. Even though an ostrich might be sound asleep, it can look wide awake or, at most, a little drowsy. John Lesku from the Max Planck Institute of Ornithology discovered this by fitting six ostrichers with “Neurologgers”, electrode-laden helmets that measures their temperature, brain activity, eye movements […]
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