 Worms do calculus to find meals or avoid unpleasantness July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they ... | |
 Researchers are first to simulate the binding of molecules to a protein June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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You may not know what it is, but you burn more than your body weight of it every day. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a tiny molecule that packs a powerful punch, is the primary energy source for most of your ... | |
 Ultrasonic frogs can tune their ears to different frequencies July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Researchers have discovered that a frog that lives near noisy springs in central China can tune its ears to different sound frequencies, much like the tuner on a radio can shift from one frequency to another. ... | |
 Mystery insect bugging experts at London museum July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The experts at London's Natural History Museum pride themselves on being able to identify species from around the globe, from birds and mammals to insects and snakes. Yet they can't figure out a tiny ... | |
 Forest birds evolved early, DNA shows July 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evolution seems to have happened in fits and starts -- at least that's what the fossil record shows. From trilobites to pterodactyls, ammonites to Archaeopteryx, scientists find the same pattern: ... | |
 Touching research: To improve robots, researcher eyes jellyfish July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biology professor Joseph Ayers is expanding his research on animals’ nervous systems that produced the RoboLobster and RoboLamprey to include a study on tactile sensory perception in jellyfish ... | |
Bee disease a mystery June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Scientists are one step closer to understanding the recent demise of billions of honey bees after making an important discovery about the transmission of a common bee virus. Deformed wing virus (DWV) is passed between adult ... | |
 N.M. researchers hope to cultivate 'calming herb' 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- The plant has been described by local residents as magical, its qualities almost mythical. The native herb yerba mansa, translated from Spanish as the "calming herb," has been used medicinally for ... | |
Plant steroids offer new paradigm for how hormones work 22 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Steroids bulk up plants just as they do human athletes, but the playbook of molecular signals that tell the genes to boost growth and development in plant cells is far more complicated than in human and animal cells. A new ... | |
 Study shows parasites outweigh predators July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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In a study of free-living and parasitic species in three estuaries on the Pacific coast of California and Baja California, a team of researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, the United ... | |
Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinct July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Tiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, but many of these minute creatures ... | |
 More than half Philippine fauna nearly extinct: official July 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
More than half the birds, amphibians and mammals found only in the Philippines are either threatened or nearly extinct, the environment and natural resources department said Monday. | |
A Viral Cloaking Device: Biologists show how Human Cytomegalovirus hides from the immune system July 18, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Viruses achieve their definition of success when they can thrive without killing their host. Now, biologists Pamela Bjorkman and Zhiru Yang of the California Institute of Technology have uncovered how one ... | |
Calif condors' animal instinct takes over in fire July 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- As wildfire whipped toward a remote sanctuary of the endangered California condor last month, the rare birds got their biggest test in survival after years of pampering by biologists: They had to live completely ... | |
 Newly described 'dragon' protein could be key to bird flu cure July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and researchers have taken a big step closer to a cure for the most common strain of avian influenza, or "bird flu," the potential pandemic that has claimed more than 200 lives ... | |
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