Today's selection of science news. Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert (at the bottom end I may also add a couple of newspaper stories). I include quotes from the summary (using quotation marks) in cases where the title alone doesn't reveal what the story is about. My own thoughts appear without quotation marks, if I have any.
Just three stories today ...
evolution
Coastal organisms trapped in 99-million-year-old amber
ecology
Wild pigs invade Canadian provinces
"Wild pigs -- a mix of wild boar and domestic swine -- are spreading rapidly across Canada, threatening native species such as nesting birds, deer, agricultural crops, and farm livestock, research by the University of Saskatchewan (USask) shows."
humans
'Doing science,' rather than 'being scientists,' more encouraging to those underrepresented in the field
"Over the course of a school year, elementary school children lose confidence that they can 'be scientists,' but remain more confident that they can 'do science.'"
I'd suspect though that the same applies to all fields. Playing music sounds a lot less scary than being a musician. Doing some writing is less demanding than being a writer.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
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