 Exotic Chameleon Spends Most of its Life as an Egg July 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a chameleon species that spends a good two-thirds of its life inside an egg: Furcifer labordi lives about 8-9 months as an embryo, and has a post-hatching ... | |
Pregnant women get morning sickness to protect fetus July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 27 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
 'Mind's eye' influences visual perception July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 38 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 ... | |
 Loss of Wolves Causes Major Ecosystem Disruption at Olympic National Park July 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Olympic National Park was created in 1938, in part “to preserve the finest sample of primeval forests in the entire United States” – but a new study at Oregon State University suggests that ... | |
Natural selection may not produce the best organisms July 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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"Survival of the fittest" is the catch phrase of evolution by natural selection. While natural selection favors the most fit organisms around, evolutionary biologists have long wondered whether this leads to the best possible ... | |
 Researchers Discover Remnant of an Ancient 'RNA World' July 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent - all without initial involvement of DNA. Yale University researchers describe Friday in the journal ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Cancer forces Tasmanian devils to breed earlier July 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The little devils just can't wait. Faced with an epidemic of cancer that cuts their lives short, Tasmanian devils have begun breeding at younger ages, according to researchers at the University of ... | |
 Unknown insects found in 110-million-year-old amber in Spain 20 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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The remains of several unknown insect species which became extinct long before dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth have been discovered in pieces of 110-million-year-old amber found in Spain, researchers said ... | |
 Want to fly? Don't copy the birds and the bees July 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Since earliest recorded history, and presumably beyond, humans have always wanted to fly. First attempts involved imitation of winged creatures around them, and unfailingly ended in disaster. | |
Genes that control embryonic stem cell fate identified July 10, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Scientists have identified about two dozen genes that control embryonic stem cell fate. The genes may either prod or restrain stem cells from drifting into a kind of limbo, they suspect. The limbo lies between the embryonic ... | |
Can microorganisms be a solution to the world's energy problems? July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Microorganisms once reigned supreme on the Earth, thriving by filling every nook and cranny of the environment billions of years before humans first arrived on the scene. Now, this ability of microorganisms to grow from ... | |
 Abandoned baby panda adopted by cat at Dutch zoo July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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A baby panda rejected by its mother has been adopted by a domestic cat which is suckling the animal along with its own young, Amsterdam's Artis zoo said Wednesday. | |
 Big brains arose twice in higher primates July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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After taking a fresh look at an old fossil, John Flynn, Frick Curator of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, and colleagues determined that the brains of the ancestors of modern Neotropical ... | |
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