‘Oil: Tar sands less damaging than coal, insists Shell’
Oil giant says not exploiting tar sands will cause more global warming, from The Guardian.
‘Queen’s Guitarist Publishes Astrophysics Thesis’
Queen guitarist Brian May has finally published his doctoral thesis. It appears in the book ‘A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud’, says Space.com.
‘Solving New Zealand’s moose mystery’
DNA tests on hairs show Canadian moose may still be living in New Zealand. Attempts to establish a population there for hunting were thought to have failed, with the last confirmed sighting being in 1952.
Chidanand Rajghatta writes in the Times of India about bogus “Indian kid-genius goes to NASA” stories and what they tell us about the state of India’s science.
Papers with good titles: Losing ‘Nemo’: bleaching and collection appear to reduce inshore populations of anemonefishes