Tuning in to a new language on the fly: Effects of context and seasonality on songbird brain August 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Research conducted at Rutgers University has shown that exposure to a changed acoustic and social environment can rewire the way the brain processes sounds. Beginning in the cochlea of the inner ear, nerve cells of the auditory ... | |
 Arctic Map plots new 'gold rush' August 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Researchers at Durham University have drawn up the first ever 'Arctic Map' to show the disputed territories that states might lay claim to in the future. | |
 Spiders Who Eat Together, Stay Together August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to work together and capture larger prey has allowed social spiders to stretch the laws of nature and reach enormous colony sizes, UBC zoologists have found. | |
 Multi-tasking maggots in superbug showdown August 05, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Scientists at Swansea University (Wales, UK) have discovered a new type of antibiotic in maggot secretions that can tackle up to 12 different strains of MRSA, as well as E. coli and C. difficile. The research ... | |
 Entomologists play matchmakers for cerambycid beetles August 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cerambycid beetles, also known as long-horned beetles, can cause severe damage to standing trees, logs and lumber. How then might they be promptly detected and their numbers swiftly controlled? ... | |
 Booger is back: Woman receives 5 cloned puppies August 05, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Booger is back. An American woman received five puppies Tuesday that were cloned from her beloved late pitbull, becoming the inaugural customer of a South Korean company that says it is the world's ... | |
Memory, depression, insomnia -- and worms? August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Researchers have spent decades probing the causes of depression, schizophrenia and insomnia in humans. But a new study may have uncovered key insights into the origins of these and other conditions by examining a most unlikely ... | |
 Scientists discover 'Planet of the Apes' August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The world's population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas received a huge boost today when the Wildlife Conservation Society released a census showing massive numbers of these secretive great ... | |
 US woman cuddles clones of beloved former pet pit bull August 05, 2008 | User rating: 2.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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An America woman blinked back tears of joy Tuesday as she cuddled puppies cloned in South Korea from her beloved former pit bull terrier. | |
 Antarctic fossils paint a picture of a much warmer continent August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra--in the form of fossilized plants and insects--on the interior of the southernmost ... | |
Little teeth suggest big jump in primate timeline August 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids, the primate lineage of today's monkeys, apes and humans, say researchers from Duke University ... | |
Study uses genetic evidence to trace ancient African migration August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Stanford University researchers peering at history's footprints on human DNA have found new evidence for how prehistoric people shared knowledge that advanced civilization. | |
 New bottle cap thwarts wine counterfeiters August 04, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When the Roman historian Pliny the Elder wrote " in vino veritas " – in wine, there is truth – he must not have been drinking from a counterfeit bottle. Researchers Roger Johnston and Jon ... | |
Job growth not the only factor in reducing poverty in large metro areas August 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A new study suggests that it may be easier for people living in small metropolitan areas to get out of poverty than it is for those living in large metro areas. The study by researchers at Ohio State University and Oklahoma ... | |
Researchers introduce next generation tool for visualizing genomic data August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Researchers are collecting vast amounts of diverse genomic data with ever-increasing speed, but effective ways to visualize these data in an integrated manner have lagged behind the ability to generate them. To address this ... | |
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