Gizmorama - June 3, 2013

Good Morning,

Market researchers claim that Americans spend an average of 58 minutes a day on their smartphones, with talking and texting accounting for about half the time. Really? It's got to be more than that... oh, sorry. I had to check my phone.

Learn about this and other interesting stories from the scientific community in today's issue.

Until Next Time,
Erin

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*-- Average American spends almost an hour a day on their smartphone --*
NEW YORK - Americans spend an average of 58 minutes a day on their smartphones, with talking and texting accounting for about half the time, a market research firm says. Smartphone owners devote 26 percent of the time they spend on their phone talking and another 20 percent texting, a blog post by Experian Marketing Services reported Tuesday. Social networking and browsing the mobile web combined to account for 30 percent of the average American's daily smartphone use, it said. The rest of the daily time was spent on emailing, playing games, taking pictures with the phone's camera and using its GPS location capabilities, Experian said. iPhone users were ahead of the Android-using counterparts in daily phone usage, spending an hour and 15 minutes each day on their devices, 26 minutes more than the typical Android phone user.


*-- Plants frozen for centuries come back to life --*
EDMONTON, Alberta - Plants that haven't seen daylight since they were frozen more than 400 years ago during the "Little Ice Age" are sprouting new growth, Canadian scientists say. The plant life has been coming back to life as glaciers in Canada's high arctic region have been retreating at an accelerated rate since 2004, researchers at the University of Alberta reported. The retreating glaciers have exposed land -- and the frozen plant life -- that had not seen light of day since a widespread climatic cooling lasting roughly from 1550 to 1850, a period dubbed the Little Ice Age. The "back-from-the-dead" capability of the plants, known as bryophytes, could provide insights into to how ecosystems recover from the planet's cyclic long periods of ice coverage, the researchers said. The researchers said they were surprised by an emergence of the bryophytes buried under ice for so long. "When we looked at them in detail and brought them to the lab, I could see some of the stems actually had new growth of green lateral branches, and that said to me that these guys are regenerating in the field, and that blew my mind," study lead author Catherine La Farge told BBC News. The retreating ice is uncovering an array of life including cyanobacteria and green terrestrial algae, she said, and many of the species being revealed are entirely new to science. "It's a whole world of what's coming out from underneath the glaciers that really needs to be studied," she said.

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