RefBan

Referral Banners

Thursday, August 4, 2011

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News


Italian academia: A family business? Statistical analysis points to high frequency of last names in disciplines, institutions

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:47 PM PDT

Unusually high clustering of last names within Italian academic institutions and disciplines indicates widespread nepotism in the country's schools, according to a new computational analysis.

Widespread mistaken beliefs about memory, U.S. national survey reveals

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:47 PM PDT

A new survey reveals that many people in the US -- in some cases a substantial majority -- think that memory is more powerful, objective and reliable than it actually is. Their ideas are at odds with decades of scientific research.

What steers vampire bats to blood: Heat-detecting molecules on noses discovered

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:35 AM PDT

Scientists have known for years that when vampire bats tear through an animal's skin with their razor-sharp teeth, their noses guide them to the best spots -- where a precise bite will strike a vein and spill forth nourishing blood. But nobody knew exactly how bats knew where to bite.

Is our universe inside a bubble? First observational test of the 'multiverse'

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:28 AM PDT

The theory that our universe is contained inside a bubble, and that multiple alternative universes exist inside their own bubbles -- making up the "multiverse" -- is, for the first time, being tested by physicists.

No comments: