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.
astrobiology
How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?
evolution
What a group of bizarre-looking bats can tell us about the evolution of mammals
ecology
Hard-working termites crucial to forest, wetland ecosystems
Flashlight fish use bioluminescence to school at night
Flashlight fish (Anomalops katoptron)
Credit: D. Gruber (2019)
plants
Sticky proteins help plants know when -- and where -- to grow
environment
New study: Fracking prompts global spike in atmospheric methane
humans
Neanderthals commonly suffered from 'swimmer's ear'
"Abnormal bony growths in the ear canal were surprisingly common in Neanderthals"
A society's cultural practices shape the structure of its social networks
Thursday, August 15, 2019
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