Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter Posted on September 09, 2016 by Chantal Jager In News An Atlas V rocket traced a blazing arc into the Florida sky Thursday evening to send a small robotic explorer on its way to an asteroid on a mission that […]Read more Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter
Four Giraffe Species Instead of One Posted on September 09, 2016 by Chantal Jager In News Our nuclear and mitochondrial gene analyses clearly show that giraffes are not a homogeneous taxon but are deeply structured into distinct genetic groups. The degree of population genetic differentiation of […]Read more Four Giraffe Species Instead of One
Snake Eats Lizard Eats Beetle Posted on September 09, 2016 by Chantal Jager In News In cooperation with CONICET in Argentina, Senckenberg scientists examined a spectacular discovery from the UNESCO World Heritage site Messel Pit: A fossil snake in whose stomach a lizard can be […]Read more Snake Eats Lizard Eats Beetle
Online grooming of children often ‘alarmingly fast’, researchers find Posted on September 08, 2016 by Chantal Jager In News Online groomers rarely pose as children and can succeed in persuading a child to meet in less than half an hour, according to researchers probing the way in which sexual […]Read more Online grooming of children often ‘alarmingly fast’, researchers find