Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/11/recent-human-evolution-2/
If you could escape the human time scale for a moment, and regard evolution from the perspective of deep time, in which the last 10,000 years are a short chapter in a long story, you'd say: Things are pretty wild right now.
Seas rising faster than projected, low areas threatened - study
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/11/28/u-n-sea-levels-rising-60-faster.html
Tue Nov 27, 2012 7:01pm EST. * "Global warming has not slowed down". * Compared UN projections with actual satellite data.
Second PAC-MAN orbiting SATURN: Local absence of dots explained
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/4249/20121129/nasas-cassini-shows-noticeable-climatic-changes-titan.htm
NASA's Cassini mission has discovered a second Pac-Man moon in the Saturn system: Tethys. Pac-Man moons in the Saturn system. Cassini already spotted the Pac-Man thermal shape on the Mimas moon in 2010, and this second shape - found in Tethys, ...
Lake life survives in total isolation for 3000 years
http://blogs.voanews.com/science-world/2012/11/29/new-microbes-may-hold-clues-to-extraterrestrial-life/
It is seven times as salty as the sea, pitch dark and 13 degrees below freezing. Lake Vida in East Antarctica has been buried for 2800 years under 20 metres of ice, but teems with life.
Thin and Long New Snake Crawls From the Chocoan forests
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/4240/20121128/thin-long-new-snake-crawls-chocoan-forests.htm
(Photo : Omar Torres-Carvajal et al. CC-BY 3.0) Different from the new world snakes due to their extremely thin body, the blunt-headed vine snakes are the newly discovered species from the Chocoan forests in northwestern Ecuador.
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