#Sunday TV Ratings: ’60 Minutes’ Rules Night, BET Awards Has Respectable Showing

“#Sunday TV Ratings: ’60 Minutes’ Rules Night, BET Awards Has Respectable Showing” BET Per usual, news was king on Sunday’s prime time broadcast schedule with CBS’s 60 Minutes leading the night in total viewers (7.7 million), rising from last week’s 7.0 million viewers. The newsmagazine tied for first in the 18-49 demo with a new episode of Celebrity…

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#How volcanoes explode in the deep sea

“#How volcanoes explode in the deep sea” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Most volcanic eruptions take place unseen at the bottom of the world’s oceans. In recent years, oceanography has shown that this submarine volcanism not only deposits lava but also ejects large amounts of volcanic ash. “So even under layers of water kilometers thick, which…

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#New extinct family of giant wombat relatives discovered in Australian desert

“#New extinct family of giant wombat relatives discovered in Australian desert” Artist’s impression of Mukupirna nambensis living in central Australia that was much greener 25 million years ago. Credit: Peter Schouten The unique remains of a prehistoric, giant wombat-like marsupial—Mukupirna nambensis—that was unearthed in central Australia are so different from all other previously known extinct…

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#Protein derived from tick saliva proves effective in the treatment of equine skin cancer

“#Protein derived from tick saliva proves effective in the treatment of equine skin cancer” Experiments were conducted by scientists affiliated with the Center of Excellence in New Target Discovery, a research center supported by FAPESP, involving five animals with spontaneous skin tumors. Credit: Daniel Souza/Wikimedia Commons A protein derived from the saliva of the tick…

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#The state of coral reefs in the Solomon Islands

“#The state of coral reefs in the Solomon Islands” Scientists on the Global Reef Expedition research mission to the Solomon Islands conducted over 1,000 standardized surveys of coral reefs and reef fish and created maps for over 3,000 square kilometers of coastal marine habitats in the Solomon Islands. Credit: Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation/Ken…

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#Study shows antibiotic resistance genes persist in E. coli through ‘genetic capitalism’

“#Study shows antibiotic resistance genes persist in E. coli through ‘genetic capitalism’” Escherichia coli. Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH We have known for some time that over-use of antibiotics is causing a frightening increase in antibiotic resistance in bacteria, through the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance genes. What may be behind this is not…

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#Physicists see surprisingly strong light, high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodes

“#Physicists see surprisingly strong light, high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodes” Rice University physicists discover that plasmonic metals can be prompted to produce “hot carriers” that in turn emit unexpectedly bright light in nanoscale gaps between electrodes. The phenomenon could be useful for photocatalysis, quantum optics and optoelectronics. Credit: Longji Cui and Yunxuan Zhu/Rice…

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