 Missing Link Between Whales and Four-Footed Ancestors Discovered December 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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Scientists have discovered the missing link between whales and their four-footed ancestors. The result is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The research is funded by the National ... | |
 World's hottest chile pepper discovered October 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Researchers at New Mexico State University recently discovered the world’s hottest chile pepper. | |
Scientists discover why flies are so hard to swat August 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 112 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past two decades, Michael Dickinson has been interviewed by reporters hundreds of times about his research on the biomechanics of insect flight. One question from the press has always dogged him: ... | |
Pregnant women get morning sickness to protect fetus July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Morning sickness. It's the bane of many of a pregnancy. And many a future mother wonders at the apparently unnecessary suffering. But, it turns out, there's meaning to the misery. Two evolutionary biologists report that morning ... | |
 New ant species discovered in the Amazon likely represents oldest living lineage of ants September 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 88 vote(s)
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A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling is likely a descendant of the very first ants ... | |
Evidence of evolutionary selection found in 544 genes September 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By comparing the genomes of humans and five other mammals, Cornell researchers have identified 544 genes that have been shaped by positive selection over millions of years of evolution. | |
 'Mind's eye' influences visual perception July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery—what we see with the "mind's eye"—directly impacts ... | |
World's oldest living tree discovered in Sweden April 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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The world's oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden
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Could hydrogen sulfide hold the key to a long life? December 03, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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Hydrogen sulfide, or H2S, the chemical that gives rotten eggs their sulfurous stench – and the same compound that researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center successfully have used to put mice into a state of reversible ... | |
Research team makes progress toward 'printing' organs November 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Each year, pharmaceutical companies invest millions of dollars to test drugs, many of which will never reach the market because of side effects found only during human clinical trials. At the same time, the number of patients ... | |
Grapes may aid a bunch of heart risk factors, animal study finds October 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Could eating grapes help fight high blood pressure related to a salty diet? And could grapes calm other factors that are also related to heart diseases such as heart failure? A new University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center ... | |
Thinking ahead: Bacteria anticipate coming changes in their environment June 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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A new study by Princeton University researchers shows for the first time that bacteria don't just react to changes in their surroundings -- they anticipate and prepare for them. The findings, reported in the June 6 issue ... | |
 New source for biofuels discovered April 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels, report scientists from The University of Texas at Austin who say the microbe could provide a significant portion ... | |
 New fish has a face even Dale Chihuly could love April 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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A fish that would rather crawl into crevices than swim, and that may be able to see in the same way that humans do, could represent an entirely unknown family of fishes, says a University of Washington fish ... | |
 Parasite morphs ant into ripe red berry January 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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A newly discovered parasite so dramatically transforms its host, an ant, that the ant comes to resemble a juicy red berry, ripe for picking, according to a report accepted for publication in The American ... | |
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