http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Spotted hyenas may not be smarter than chimpanzees, but a new study shows that they outperform the primates on cooperative problem-solving tests. http://www.physorg.com/news173356849.html Biology Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:41:59 EST news173356849 The public and scientists have helped create the first 150,000 species pages in the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), the global online project to create a page for each of the 1.8 million known species on the planet. http://www.physorg.com/news170396645.html Biology Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:24:48 EST news170396645 "To thine own self be true" may take on a new meaning -not with people or animal behavior but with plant behavior. http://www.physorg.com/news164652485.html Biology Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:48:52 EST news164652485 What dog owner has not come home to a broken vase or other valuable items and a guilty-looking dog slouching around the house? By ingeniously setting up conditions where the owner was misinformed as to whether their dog had really committed an offense, Alexandra Horowitz, Assistant Professor from Barnard College in New York, uncovered the origins of the `guilty look` in dogs in the recently published `Canine Behaviour and Cognition` Special Issue of Elsevier`s Behavioural Processes. http://www.physorg.com/news163918477.html Other Sciences Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:55:29 EST news163918477 (PhysOrg.com) -- When an ant dies in an ant nest or near one, its body is quickly picked up by living ants and removed from the colony, thus limiting the risk of colony infection by pathogens from the corpse. http://www.physorg.com/news160752299.html Biology Tue, 05 May 2009 14:25:29 EST news160752299 Human-made light sources can alter natural light cycles, causing animals that rely on light cues to make mistakes when moving through their environment. In the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a collaboration of ecologists, biologists and biophysicists has now shown that in addition to direct light, cues from polarized light can trigger animal behaviors leading to injury and often death. http://www.physorg.com/news150542384.html Space & Earth Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:19:44 EST news150542384