Pierre the plumage-challenged penguin needed some protection from the cold whilst swimming in chilly waters. A bespoke wetsuit was fashioned for him by Pamela Schaller, Senior Aquatic Biologist at the California Academy of Sciences, Steinhart Aquarium, US. Pierre’s story – with pics — is here, in Schaller’s paper called “How and Why to Make a […]
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Reassessment of the role of penguin emissions
The time has come, the walrus said, for a reassessment of the role of penguin emissions: “A reassessment of the budget of formic and acetic acids in the boundary layer at Dumont d’Urville (coastal Antarctica): The role of penguin emissions on the budget of several oxygenated volatile organic compounds,” Michel Legrand [pictured below], Valérie Gros, […]
Warped penguin diagrams
“….one evening, after working at CERN, I stopped on my way back to my apartment to visit some friends living in Meyrin where I smoked some illegal substance. Later, when I got back to my apartment and continued working on our paper, I had a sudden flash that the famous diagrams look like penguins. So […]
Penguin-huddling, seen at high speed
You may believe that there’s nothing like the sight of thousands of penguins huddling together, viewed in time-lapse video. A new study says that there are quite a number of things like that, coordinated traveling waves being the essence of it. The Cosmic Log blog reports on that report: It’s a great deal for the […]