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                                  Nova ScienceNow: “Can I Eat That?”

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Underwater 'storms' may hold key to melting Antarctic ice

Scientists using robotic ocean gliders to wander frigid Antarctic waters say they may have discovered a mechanism behind the melting of polar ice shelves – miniature submarine "storms" that are lobbing packets of warmer water toward the continent.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, shed light on the complicated currents that could potentially be contributing to the loss of West Antarctic ice.

Thawing ice in Antarctica has contributed to the rising ocean levels that are a signature of climate change, and it’s thought that warm water reaching the ice shelf has played a key role in melting it. But it’s not clear how warm water has managed to get past the continental shelf break to start the process, and an international team of researchers wanted to find out.

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What Is Mers?

Science Now Episode 1 hosted by Will Rozee with the Mind Mover Correspondents. 

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Credit: Francis Ratnieks

by Nisha Giridharan on 21 June 2013, 3:40 PM

The Parawixia bistriata (pictured), a large spider that lives in the semiarid habitats of southern Brazil, knows that when it comes to living in a crowded neighborhood, fighting is never the answer. Scientists knew that communities of P. bistriata emerge from collective shelters at sunset and build individual webs along permanent and communal silk support lines. At the end of the night, however, a small number of webless spiders peacefully share the prey of their neighbors—a rare instance of cooperation among arachnids. Now, after months of observation, researchers have developed a new model explaining the behavioral strategies of these webless spiders. Once the sun begins to set, P. bistriata swarm the communal silk lines, searching for spots to build their webs. As each spider claims its territory, it shoos away others that try to settle uncomfortably close by. Early in the evening, the still-webless interlopers graciously move on, knowing that they will likely find an empty spot elsewhere. But as the night progresses, desperation sets in. Open sites become scarce, so webless spiders no longer retreat when resident spiders bounce up and down to drive them away. Instead, they sit near a resident's web and freeload on large prey—seemingly with the resident's permission. Applying insights from game theory, the researchers concluded that resident spiders don't aggressively defend their territory because a night's meal is not worth risking their lives in a fight, they report this month in The American Naturalist. What's more, any spider could find itself on the other side of the negotiation the next night, when the race for space begins again.

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via ScienceNOW

by John Bohannon

Every scientific field has its great explainers. Biology had Stephen Jay Gould. Physics had Richard Feynman. Chemistry had Tom Lehrer. All of them were great scientific minds who also had a gift for communication. They not only made complex scientific concepts graspable to a layperson, they also made them beautiful, funny, and awe-inspiring. But could they explain science through dance?

For the past 5 years, Science has sponsored "Dance Your Ph.D.," an international competition to see which scientists can best explain their graduate work through interpretive dance. The rules are simple. Create a dance that is inspired by your Ph.D. research. (It doesn't matter if you're a Ph.D. student now or if you finished your Ph.D. 50 years ago.) It can be solo, duet, or your whole lab group. (The author of the Ph.D. thesis must be part of it.) Get that dance on video and send us the link. That's it!

** The deadline for submission is 1 October 2013 **

This is a science dance-off. The submitted dances will be broadly divided into PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY, and SOCIAL SCIENCES. The judges will choose the best from each, and those finalists will compete for the top prize.

You don't need to follow a specific dance style. Submissions have ranged from traditional Indian folk dance to hip hop and … fruit fly mating.

But to win the contest, your dance needs to pull off two tricks: It needs to be engaging art, and it has to help us understand the essence of the science behind your Ph.D. research.

Australians have dominated in recent years, with a physicist winning in 2011 for his stop-motion dance about titanium hips and a chemist in 2012 for his old-timey burlesque about aluminum crystals. Will 2013 see another winner from Down Under? Will the biologists and social scientists rise to the occasion?

Visit the contest website to learn all the details and officially enter. The competition is open to anyone in the sciences, broadly defined—all scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and historians of science are welcome.

Finalists in each of four categories win $500. The grand prize winner will receive an additional $500 plus another prize that has not yet been announced. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, get dancing!

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This links to an article summarizing new findings on the transition from hunting to farming (Mesolithic to Neolithic) at sites in the Balkans along the Danube River valley. Fascinating stuff.