New Yorkers beware! New cockroach hits the Big Apple

Biology / Evolution

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New Yorkers are used to fighting each other for space, but there may be a new contender in town according to a Rockefeller study that appears to have uncovered a new species of cockroach.

Scientists show that plants have measure of the shortest day

Biology / Plants & Animals

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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is not only people who feel the effects of short winter days - new research by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Warwick has shed light on how plants calculate their own winter solstice. ...

Bees show off the perfect landing

Biology / Plants & Animals

15 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Honey bees undergo a sudden transition from speeding aircraft to hovering helicopter as they perform the delicate art of landing on a flower.

Researchers reveal secrets of duck sex: It's all screwed up

Biology / Plants & Animals

22 hours ago | 3.7 / 5 (9) | 0

Female ducks have evolved an intriguing way to avoid becoming impregnated by undesirable but aggressive males endowed with large corkscrew-shaped penises: vaginas with clockwise spirals that thwart oppositely ...

First volume of microbial encyclopedia published

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

15 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The Earth is estimated to have about a nonillion (1030) microbes in, on, around, and under it, comprised of an unknown but very large number of distinct species. Despite the widespread availability of microbi ...