For the first time, chimpanzees have been seen using tools to chop up and reduce food into smaller bite-sized portions.Chimps in the Nimba Mountains of Guinea, Africa, use both stone and wooden cleavers, as well as stone anvils, to process Treculia fruits. The apes are not simply cracking into the Treculia to get to otherwise unobtainable food, say researchers. Instead, they are actively chopping up the food into more manageable portions.
For the first time, chimpanzees have been seen using tools to chop up and reduce food into smaller bite-sized portions.
Chimps in the Nimba Mountains of Guinea, Africa, use both stone and wooden cleavers, as well as stone anvils, to process Treculia fruits.
The apes are not simply cracking into the Treculia to get to otherwise unobtainable food, say researchers.
Instead, they are actively chopping up the food into more manageable portions.
wait till they figure out fractional reserve banking and hedge funds, that's when i'll worry.
oh wait... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Some people spend weeks looking for the right Christmas tree. In Copenhagen, Danish scientists are mapping the genome of the conifer for the first time. They hope to use the data to breed the perfect Christmas tree. Danish researcher Pär Ingvarsson had his Christmas tree a long time before Christmas. As always, it is a nice spruce tree. At Christmastime, the plant geneticist simply takes his research home. Ingvarsson's goal is to map the genome of the humble Christmas tree. A foundation has given Ingvarsson and his team €7 million to sequence the tree's genome. If they are successful, it will be the world's first decryption of a coniferous tree's genetic make-up. Up until now only one other tree has had its DNA sequenced: the balsam poplar.
Some people spend weeks looking for the right Christmas tree. In Copenhagen, Danish scientists are mapping the genome of the conifer for the first time. They hope to use the data to breed the perfect Christmas tree.
Danish researcher Pär Ingvarsson had his Christmas tree a long time before Christmas. As always, it is a nice spruce tree. At Christmastime, the plant geneticist simply takes his research home. Ingvarsson's goal is to map the genome of the humble Christmas tree.
A foundation has given Ingvarsson and his team €7 million to sequence the tree's genome. If they are successful, it will be the world's first decryption of a coniferous tree's genetic make-up. Up until now only one other tree has had its DNA sequenced: the balsam poplar.
The Three Wise Men were actually being cleverer than they thought - scientists have discovered that myrrh is good for your heart. The ancient resin, used traditionally as a perfume or embalming fluid, may help lower cholesterol levels if taken as a food supplement. Myrrh is a rust-coloured resin obtained from several species of Commiphora and Balsamodendron trees, native to the Middle East and Ethiopia.
The ancient resin, used traditionally as a perfume or embalming fluid, may help lower cholesterol levels if taken as a food supplement.
Myrrh is a rust-coloured resin obtained from several species of Commiphora and Balsamodendron trees, native to the Middle East and Ethiopia.
