evolution
Coquí fossil from Puerto Rico takes title of oldest Caribbean frog
The evolution of color: Team shows how butterfly wings can shift in hue
Comparison of wild-type brown buckeye and artificially selected blue buckeye wings.
Credit: Aaron Pomerantz
ecology
How wallflowers evolved a complementary pair of plant defenses
Must be one of the perks of being a wallflower.
The link between virus spillover, wildlife extinction and the environment
conservation
Protecting the high seas
Researchers use big data to identify biodiversity hotspots that could become the first generation of high seas marine protected areas.
biomedical
Successful MERS vaccine in mice may hold promise for COVID-19 vaccine
food and drink
Bubble dynamics reveal how to empty bottles faster
Over here in the real world, we just give the bottle a twirl - rotating liquid forms a vortex and clears out 10 times faster, with no need to worry about bubbles at all.
climate change
Climate change triggers Great Barrier Reef bleaching
humans
Students who listened to Beethoven during lecture -- and in dreamland -- did better on test
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From the news media:
An interesting detailed analysis from Reuters of the science advice behind the UK government's (lack of) response. My reading: approaching disaster was clear on March 1, response came >2 weeks too late. Instead of that handshaking remark on March 3 Johnson should have told ppl to keep their distance (and led by example, eg in the setup of his news conference). That would have saved lives.
Meanwhile, the projections from IHME that are currently predicting 66,000 deaths in the UK by August 4th (this page will change with the time, as projections are updated). Here's the Guardian story about it, which will stay. Very impressive how much damage three weeks of criminal carelessness can do.
And the Financial Times continues to have the best daily data visualisation.
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