Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

22 hours ago | 4.9 / 5 (14) | 0

Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...

Indian engineer invents device to stop rampaging elephants

Biology / Plants & Animals

2 hours ago | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

An Indian inventor has created a device to stop rampaging elephants in their tracks, amid concern about human injuries and deaths when they run amok, his company said Monday.

Measuring and modeling blood flow in malaria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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When people have malaria, they are infected with Plasmodium parasites, which enter the body from the saliva of a mosquito, infect cells in the liver, and then spread to red blood cells. Inside the blood cells, the parasites ...

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

Biology / Other

21 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 2

(AP) -- An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.

It's a gas: New discovery may lead to heartier, high-yielding plants

Biology / Biotechnology

2 hours ago | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

In a research report published in the November 2009 issue of the journal Genetics, scientists show how a family of genes (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase, or ACS genes) are responsible for production of ethyle ...