Reality Checks: Leopard Spots, Oceans of Mars, Caffeine Eating Microbes, and Fossilized Sperm
- In order to not neglect Mars during all the Pluto love, Curiosity discovers a what may be a continental crust. (via The Register)
- Scientists discover One Weird Trick(tm)for seeing black leopard spots (turning on an infrared camera flash). (via Gulf News)
- Oldest fossilized sperm discovered in Antarctica! (via BBC)
- Coffee destroying beetles have microbes in their guts that can live on pure caffeine. (via Newsweek)
Featured image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/IRAP/U. Nantes/IAS/MSSS
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