New study points to agriculture in frog sexual abnormalities 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot. But University of Florida scientists have found the opposite is true. In a study with wide implications for a longstanding ... | |
 Probing Question: What is the history of tattooing? 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
You might not think the sullen, tattooed teenager skulking around your local record store has anything in common with Winston Churchill, but you would be wrong. Sir Winston, King George V, and the slaves of ... | |
Prevalence of religious congregations affects mortality rates 7 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
LSU associate professor of sociology Troy C. Blanchard recently found that a community's religious environment – that is, the type of religious congregations within a locale – affects mortality rates, often in a positive ... | |
 Ancient marine invertebrate diversity less explosive than thought 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Diversity among the ancestors of such marine creatures as clams, sand dollars and lobsters showed only a modest rise beginning 144 million years ago with no clear trend afterwards, according to an international ... | |
 Researchers run rings round cell division 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A puzzle in the control of cell division, one of the most fundamental processes in all biology, has been unravelled by Oxford University researchers. | |
Ridding meat of E. coli 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
You may be able to enjoy a rare hamburger soon, thanks to a discovery made by a team of University of Alberta researchers. | |
Local elite rule over small villages in Indonesia 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Dutch-sponsored researcher Y. Argo Twikromo has investigated how the local ruling elite have retained their political control over the local population. He has tried to understand and analyse the dynamic processes of state ... | |
Resveratrol found to improve health, but not longevity in aging mice on standard diet 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Scientists have found that the compound resveratrol slows age-related deterioration and functional decline of mice on a standard diet, but does not increase longevity when started at middle age. This study, conducted and ... | |
Scientists set out to measure how we perceive naturalness 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Natural products are highly valued by consumers yet their properties have been difficult to reproduce fully in synthetic materials, placing a drain on our limited natural resources. Until now ... | |
Researchers identify tumor suppressor that manages cellular cleaning and recycling proceses 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a specific tumor suppressor that manages membrane traffic routes for cellular cleaning and recycling. | |
'Smart' materials get smarter with ability to better control shape and size 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A dynamic way to alter the shape and size of microscopic three-dimensional structures built out of proteins has been developed by biological chemist Jason Shear and his former graduate student Bryan Kaehr at The University ... | |
Sophisticated communication a prerequisite for people's independence 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
With the availability of the Internet, citizens are increasingly expected to search themselves for information on security risks in their living environment. Until now, however, too little was known about the willingness ... | |
Instances of mass die-offs in wild lions precipitated by extreme climate change 18 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
An international research team has published the first clear example of how climate extremes can create conditions in which diseases that are normally tolerated singly may converge and bring about mass die-offs in wildlife. | |
Search for salt tolerant grasses aims to improve roadside plantings July 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Standing in a greenhouse at the University of Rhode Island, Rebecca Brown was smiling even though it appeared that something had gone terribly wrong. Almost all of the 16 species of grass she planted last February in hundreds ... | |
Texas A&M researchers develop tool to study complex clusters of genes July 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Texas A&M University researchers have developed a computational tool that will help scientists more accurately study complex units of clustered genes, called operons, in bacteria. | |
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