Why fruit-eating bats eat dirt
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“Don’t eat the green parts of tomatoes, cut the green off the potatoes.” Any child would know that eating these parts of vegetables is a bad idea. The reason behind this is that they contain secondary plant compounds which ...
Scientists say pyramids could be concrete
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 23, 2008 |
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Scientists are taking a new look at Egypt's pyramids to see if some of the blocks could have been made from concrete.
What horses can tell us now about the coming human flu pandemic
Apr 23, 2008 |
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Stored safely in a freezer at Cornell's James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health are samples of the virus thought to be most like the one public health experts expect someday to afflict record numbers of ...
Researchers find dinosaur clues in fat
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A team of researchers at New York Medical College has discovered why birds, unlike mammals, lack a tissue that is specialized to generate heat. A paper published April 21, 2008 in the online peer-reviewed journal BMC Biology contai ...
First draft of transgenic papaya genome yields many fruits
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A broad collaboration of research institutions in the U.S. and China has produced a first draft of the papaya genome. This draft, which spells out more than 90 percent of the plant’s gene coding sequence, ...
Earth Day crowds leaving carbon footprints
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Environmental activists say many public Earth Day and other environmental events are leaving a trail of waste and carbon emissions.
Study: Mountains reached current elevation earlier than thought
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2008 |
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Geologists studying deposits of volcanic glass in the western United States have found that the central Sierra Nevada largely attained its present elevation 12 million years ago, roughly 8 or 9 million years ...
Researchers make new finding about how memory is stored
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Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine are the first to show that the location of protein-destroying “machines” in nerve cells in the brain may play an important role in how memories are formed – a finding ...
Global warming could flood Florida coasts
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Scientists studying the consequences of global warming in south Florida say rising sea levels could flood coastal cities and damage fresh water supplies.
Eliminating germline lengthens fly lifespan, study shows
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New research by Brown University biologists shows that fruit flies live longer when they don’t produce germline stem cells – the cells that create eggs and sperm.
Early parents didn't stand for weighty kids
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Scientists investigating the reasons why early humans – the so-called hominins – began walking upright say it’s unlikely that the need to carry children was a factor, as has previously been suggested.
The spring in your step is more than just a good mood
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Scientists using a bionic boot found that during walking, the ankle does about three times the work for the same amount of energy compared to isolated muscles---in other words, the spring in your step is very real and helps ...
Insects use plant like a telephone
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Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning ...
Wanted: a reason to divorce
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Divorce is widespread, not only in humans, but also in socially monogamous birds like the blue tit. Behavioural ecologists Mihai Valcu and Bart Kempenaers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen ...
MU psychologists demonstrate simplicity of working memory
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 23, 2008 |
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A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but humans may have even less to work with than previously thought. University of Missouri researchers found that the average person can keep just three or four things in their “working ...
