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 in italics in cases where the title alone doesn't reveal what the story is about. My own thoughts appear without italics if I have any.
astrobiology
Newly discovered giant planet slingshots around its star
Canadian astronomers determine Earth's fingerprint
which could be used to identify a planet beyond our Solar System capable of supporting life.
evolution
Paleontologists discovered diversity of insect pollinators in 99-million-year old amber
Buratina truncata, the new long-proboscid species of Paradoxosisyrinae from Burmese amber.
Credit: Alexander Khramov
A 3.8-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia reveals the face of Lucy's ancestor
zoology
New insights into genetic basis of bird migration
A gene newly associated with the migratory patterns of golden-winged and blue-winged warblers could lend insight into the longstanding question of how birds migrate across such long distances.
climate change
Climate change affects floods in Europe
humans
After 10-year search, scientists find second 'short sleep' gene
After a decade of searching, the UC San Francisco scientists who identified the only human gene known to promote 'natural short sleep' -- lifelong, nightly sleep that lasts just four to six hours yet leaves individuals feeling fully rested -- have discovered a second.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
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