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A seahorse the size of a pea (and the other bizarre species new to science)

Bishop Museum by John Earle

This beautiful species of damselfish, Chromis abyssus, was discovered in a deep-reef habitat off the coast of the Pacific island of Ngemelis in Palau. Its discovery highlights just how little is known of deep reefs This beautiful species of damselfish, Chromis abyssus, was discovered in a deep-reef habitat off the coast of the Pacific island of Ngemelis in Palau. Its discovery highlights just how little is known of deep reefs

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Worrying an article from the science editor barely uses metric
[info]coventgarden28 wrote:
Saturday, 23 May 2009 at 09:45 am (UTC)
A fascinating article, but why the usage of predominantly imperial measurements in a science article? I have no issue with imperial units being listed alongside or in brackets, but surely in 2009 scientists aren't still measuring stick insects in inches.
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Non metric muddles
[info]prof_use wrote:
Saturday, 23 May 2009 at 01:21 pm (UTC)
I think it is just an attempt to tweak the article for UK readers although by now I imagine more of the population were brought up on metric than imperial. In the recent past it came to light that an American Mars probe crashed as the calculations were done in so called US Standard and a miscalculation then done to convert to metric.

No scientist should be doing anything in ounces and inches in any country. I was shocked to discover this but I still see some US work using US standard instead of metric, it seems that they haven't learned their lesson.

On the article, it would be even better if we could see some of the photos and have a link to some of the original research for those who would like to pursue the subject. I think the science section of the Indy is good but should be expanded. If the articles are sometimes quite light providing links to enable interested readers to browse the original research would make up for this. Science has been marginalised for too long and headlines in many papers are often scientifically inaccurate. How many times has Legionnaires disease been called a mystery virus? It is a bacterium and it is not a mystery.
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Oops
[info]prof_use wrote:
Saturday, 23 May 2009 at 01:22 pm (UTC)
Oops, just discovered the photos.
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