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Cricket ball quality hit for six
Nov 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by a University of Adelaide sports engineer shows that not all cricket balls are consistently manufactured, causing quality issues and potentially having major implications for cricket ...
Vanishing cricket frogs get a look
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Jun 25, 2006 |
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Researchers in the Chicago area are trying to track the vanishing population of cricket frogs, once so common they were hardly ever studied.
Male crickets with bigger heads are better fighters, study reveals
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Jan 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Observing and betting on cricket fights has been part of Chinese cultural tradition since at least the Sung Dynasty (A.D. 960-1278). This ancient practice has resulted in a detailed list of characteristics ...
Climate phenomenon influences England's chances in the Australian leg of the Ashes
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Jun 26, 2009 |
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The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon has been shown to have a significant effect on the results of the Ashes cricket series. When the series is held in Australia, the Australian Cricket team is more likely to ...
It’s not just cricket – actually it's physics
Oct 06, 2006 |
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Ever wanted to face a Shane Warne spin delivery or smash a Glen McGrath speed bowl? A new bowling simulator may enable you to do just that. The machine is the first of its kind to use physics, real cricket balls and novel ...
Male crickets with bigger heads are better fighters, study reveals, echoing ancient Chinese text
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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Observing and betting on cricket fights has been part of Chinese cultural tradition since at least the Sung Dynasty (A.D. 960-1278). This ancient practice has resulted in quite a detailed list of characteristics ...
Why the slow paced world could make it difficult to catch a ball...
Aug 04, 2008 |
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BBSRC researchers at the University of Birmingham have uncovered new information about the way that we perceive fast moving, incoming objects – such as tennis or cricket balls. The new research, published today in the Proceedings of ...
Official! Size Really Does Matter...
Feb 09, 2006 |
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Buy your female Valentine a priceless diamond ring and she will be faithful forever… but any cheap gift will lose her attention. Such comic-book logic has yet to be proven among humans, but it’s certainly the case in the ...
Researchers chirping over discovery of new cricket genus
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May 06, 2006 |
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A Northern Arizona University doctoral candidate and a National Park Service researcher have discovered a new genus of cave cricket.
Crickets may predict human survivability during global warming
Mar 11, 2009 |
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How well crickets adapt to rising temperatures may provide clues about whether or not humans can survive global warming.
Physicists create artificial cricket hairs
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Jun 20, 2005 |
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Scientists have re-created one of nature's most sensitive sound detectors – the tiny hairs found on body parts of crickets, which allow them to hear predators and make an escape before they get close enough to catch them. ...
Water webs connect spiders, residents in Southwest
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you are a cricket and it is a dry season on the San Pedro River in Arizona, on your nighttime ramblings to eat leaves, you are more likely to be ambushed by thirsty wolf spiders, or so ...
For crickets, parasitic flies can stop the music
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Dec 13, 2006 |
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Love hurts — really bad, for some unlucky crickets, anyway. Male crickets draw not only females with their songs but also parasitic flies. The uninvited guests then deposit larvae that burrow into their amorous hosts, grow ...
Unpeaceful co-existence: How strengths and weaknesses maintain biodiversity in an ant community
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Feb 09, 2007 |
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Many species of ants scavenge for the same kinds of food. Why then doesn't the single most efficient species drive the others to extinction? A research group based at the University of Utah conducted a detailed ...
A new world of research possibilities with 'Emerging Model Organisms'
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Nov 21, 2008 |
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How can moss help us to treat Alzheimer's disease? What can the lamprey immune system tell us about evolution? Can genetic studies of snapdragon populations help with efforts to conserve rare species? What ...
