What to do if your pet is bitten by a snake
The beginning of autumn brings pumpkins, falling leaves and baby snake season as snakes are born and hatched in late summer to early fall. The cooling weather also makes snakes more active, putting our curiously natured dogs and cats at higher risk o.....»»
Joe “just conversations” Rogan defends misinformation like a classic grifter
Money, misinformation, & snake oil: Joe Rogan has a lot in common with Gwyneth Paltrow. Enlarge / Joe Rogan on July 9, 2021, in Las Vegas, NV. (credit: Getty | Icon Sportswire) Long before the pandemic took the lives of more t.....»»
Boston Dynamics" Spot celebrates the holidays with a Solid Snake impression
Boston Dynamics likes to show off videos of its robots’ various skills, from parkour and gymnastics to cleaning and gardening. But judging from the several dancing videos it has put out over the years, the robots’ most practical use will be appea.....»»
New study debunks controversial 2015 fossil find: It’s not a four-limbed snake after all
Its anatomy is consistent with that of extinct marine lizards known as dolichosaurs. Enlarge / In this artist's representation, Tetrapodophis amplectus glides through a tangle of branches from the conifer Duartenia araripensis that hav.....»»
Paleontologists debunk fossil thought to be missing link between lizards and first snakes
Filling in the links of the evolutionary chain with a fossil record of a ''snake with four legs" connecting lizards and early snakes would be a dream come true for paleontologists. But a specimen formerly thought to fit the bill is not the missing pi.....»»
Can we use big batteries to power our trains?
A new analysis suggests the economics are close to breaking even. Enlarge / An eastbound manifest freight swoops through an S curve in Lombard Canyon, just east of Toston, Montana, on September 11, 2011. The tracks here snake along the.....»»
Konami has temporarily removed some Metal Gear games from digital stores
Konami announced the temporarily removal of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater from digital stores while it renews the licenses of the historical footage they contain. The company hopes to make the games available.....»»
Snakes more likely to inbreed and lose ability to adapt due to urbanisation
Curtin University research has found that isolated Perth tiger snake populations, such as those surrounded by urban development or seawater, are more likely to resort to inbreeding than those in less "cut off" communities......»»
Razer takes on the likes of Corsair, Noctua with an expansion into PSUs, liquid coolers and case fans
The three-headed snake logo is coming to more PC components as Razer announces its debut into PSUs, AIO liquid cooling and case fans. Some of this hardware, like the 120mm and 140mm Kunai fans and the magnetic PWM fan controller, is now available to.....»»
How a mass extinction resulted in the rise of the snakes
The Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction saw a snake-splosion of biodiversity. Enlarge / Today's diverse snake populations may trace back to a single ancestral species that survived the dinosaur-killing mass extinction. (credit: Alan.....»»
Catching malaria evolution in the act
Understanding how malaria parasites evolve after a human is bitten by an infected mosquito is very difficult. There can be billions of individual parasites in a patient's bloodstream and traditional genetic sequencing techniques can't identify the ra.....»»
What Chili Peppers Can Teach Us about Pain
U.C. San Francisco researcher and Breakthrough Prize–winner David Julius talks about capsaicin, opioids and snake vision -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
How do you help someone with their leg bitten off by a shark?
How do you help someone with their leg bitten off by a shark?.....»»
Sea snake attacks may be misdirected courtship behaviours
Attacks by venomous Olive sea snakes on scuba divers may be misdirected courtship behaviors, according to a study published in Scientific Reports......»»
Robot Shows How Simple Swimming Can Be
Lots of robots use bioinspiration in their design. Humanoids, quadrupeds, snake robots—if an animal has figured out a clever way of doing something, odds are there's a robot that's tried to duplicate it. But animals are often just a little too cl.....»»
Snake Eyes film review: More like “G.I. No”
A fan edit could get this into "so bad it's good" territory. Until then, watch out. Henry Golding, seen here doing one of many unnecessary combat-adjacent poses in Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins......»»
Ars AI headline experiment finale—we came, we saw, we used a lot of compute time
Turns out it's really hard to make a machine-learning model to evaluate headlines. Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) We may have bitten off more than we could chew, folks. An Amazon engineer told me that when he heard what I was t.....»»
Researchers create reptile-derived "super glue" that stops bleeding in seconds using visible light
Western University bioengineer Kibret Mequanint and his international collaborators have found a novel use for snake venom: a body tissue 'super glue' that can stop life-threatening bleeding in seconds......»»
Researchers create snake-venom-derived "super glue" that stops bleeding in seconds using visible light
Indiana Jones hates snakes. And he's certainly not alone. The fear of snakes is so common it even has its own name: ophidiophobia......»»
Ancient carved snake found in Finland
A pair of researchers from the University of Turku and the University of Helsinki, respectively, both in Finland, has found a well-preserved ancient carved snake at Järvensuo 1, a dig site in south-west Finland. In their paper published on the Cambr.....»»
Unusual prey: Spiders eating snakes
There are spiders that eat snakes. Observations of snake-eating spiders have been reported around the world. Two researchers from Basel and the US consolidated and analyzed over 300 reports of this unusual predation strategy......»»