 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. | |
Scientists a step closer to producing fuel from bacteria August 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Scientists at the University of Sheffield have shown how bacteria could be used as a future fuel. The research, published in the journal Bioinformatics, could have significant implications for the environment and the ... | |
 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 ... | |
Exercise pill is no replacement for exercise August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Recently, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a research organization focused on biology and its relation to health, published a study in the journal ... | |
 Vine invasion? Ecologist looks at coexistence of trees and lianas August 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Among the hundreds of species of woody vines that University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee ecologist Stefan Schnitzer has encountered in the tropical forests of Panama, the largest has a stalk nearly 20 inches in ... | |
 It's pelican vs. trout in Idaho predator conflict August 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- A cunning predator that hunts in packs, corners prized game species and devours them whole is angering sportsmen in this eastern Idaho RV hamlet on the Blackfoot Reservoir's wind-whipped shores. | |
Songbirds may hold key to advances in treatment of brain degeneration August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Ongoing research at Lehigh University may one day help make strides toward therapeutic advances in the treatment of diseases that involve the loss of memory and brain degeneration such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and stroke. ... | |
 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? ... | |
Researchers Discover Dual-Use Sexual Attraction and Population-Control Chemicals in Nematodes August 01, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Organisms ranging from humans to plants to the lowliest bacterium use molecules to communicate. Some chemicals trigger the various stages of an organism's development, and still others are used to attract ... | |
Structural biology spin-out tackles major diseases 9 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A spin out company from basic structural biology, Asterion Ltd., has led to new technology that provides a way of creating therapeutic proteins to tackle major diseases such as cancer, diabetes and infertility. The research ... | |
Island says starfish aren't toys for dogs to fetch August 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Tourism officials on the Caribbean island of Grenada say they are concerned about dog owners snatching starfish out of the sea and throwing them like flying discs for their dogs to catch. | |
GIANT-Coli: A novel method to quicken discovery of gene function 15 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Think researchers know all there is to know about Escherichia coli, commonly known as E. coli? Think again. "E. coli has more than four thousand genes, and the functions of one-fourth of these remain unknown," says Dr. Deborah ... | |
 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. | |
Extinction threat growing for mankind's closest relatives August 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Mankind's closest relatives – the world's monkeys, apes and other primates – are disappearing from the face of the Earth, with some literally being eaten into extinction. | |
Scripps research team unravels new cellular repair mechanism August 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A Scripps Research team has unraveled a new biochemical pathway that triggers a critical repair response to correct errors in the DNA replication process that could otherwise lead to harmful or fatal mutations in cells. Though ... | |
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