 Novel Structure In South Pacific Plant May Be 'Missing Link' In Evolution Of Flowering Plants May 17, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A new University of Colorado at Boulder study involving a "living fossil plant" that has survived on Earth for 130 million years suggests its novel reproductive structure may be a "missing link" between flowering ... | |
Insects, plants vanishing from Britain June 25, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Hundreds of species of British insects and plants have been quietly disappearing while public attention as been focused on birds and mammals. | |
Hybrid butterfly created by scientists June 15, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Scottish scientists say a South American butterfly species was created from two different butterflies in an evolutionary process thought impossible. | |
Large dinosaurs were extremely hot in their day July 11, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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If you think dinosaurs are hot today, just think back to about 110 million years ago when they really ran hot and heavy. | |
Mellow in Europe, crazy in America February 26, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Reed canarygrass is a bit like some people on vacation. At home, they stay on their side of the fence, and speak nicely with the neighbors. But jet them into Las Vegas and by week's end they are shoving other people out of ... | |
Arming the fight against resistant bacteria April 27, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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In 1928, Alexander Fleming opened the door to treating bacterial infections when he stumbled upon the first known antibiotic in a Penicillium mold growing in a discarded experiment. | |
 Wild wheat shows its muscles May 10, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A grain of wild wheat has everything required for plant propagation - even tools for drilling into the soil. It uses its two awns for this: in the dry daytime air, these bristles bend outwards. At night, dampened ... | |
Bacteria from sponges make new pharmaceuticals September 04, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Thousands of interesting new compounds have been discovered inside the bodies of marine sponges according to scientists speaking today at the Society for General Microbiology’s 161st Meeting at the University of Edinburgh, ... | |
Researchers discover forests of endangered tropical kelp September 26, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A research team led by San Jose State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara has discovered forests of a species of kelp previously thought endangered or extinct in deep waters near the Galapagos Islands. ... | |
Scientists claim citrus originated in Australasia October 01, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Scientists at the Centre for Plant and Food Science at the University of Western Sydney have questioned the long-established perception that citrus originated in Southeast Asia. They believe it may have originated closer ... | |
 Like humans, monkey see, monkey plan, monkey do December 06, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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How many times a day do you grab objects such as a pencil or a cup? We perform these tasks without thinking, however the motor planning necessary to grasp an object is quite complex. The way human adults grasp ... | |
 Aging gracefully requires taking out the trash December 14, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Suppressing a cellular cleanup-mechanism known as autophagy can accelerate the accumulation of protein aggregates that leads to neural degeneration. In an upcoming issue of Autophagy, scientists at ... | |
Mammalian protein plays unexpected role in cell division, and perhaps cancer January 21, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The French Nobel laureate Jacques Monod famously said, “What’s true for E.coli is true for an elephant.” With this in mind, researchers at Rockefeller University set out to determine the function of Tel2, a protein originally ... | |
'V-frog' virtual-reality frog dissection software offers first true physical simulation February 09, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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V-Frog, the world’s first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education -- allowing not mere observation, but physically simulated dissection -- has been developed and is being marketed by ... | |
 Rats on islands disrupt ecosystems from land to sea, researchers find February 25, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Seabird colonies on islands are highly vulnerable to introduced rats, which find the ground-nesting birds to be easy prey. But the ecological impacts of rats on islands extend far beyond seabird nesting colonies, ... | |
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