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Nature's gift for gardening may hold key to biodiversity

Gardeners are used to cross-breeding flowers to produce pretty petals or sweet scents - now scientists have shown the importance of nature's talent for producing new types of flowers.

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Reversing ecology reveals ancient environments

From hair color to the ancestral line of parasitic bacteria, scientists can glean a lot from genes. But imagine if genes also revealed where you lived or who you spent time with. It turns out they do, if you know where and ...

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created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Study reveals clues to how humans became sociable

(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans have evolved to become the most flexible of the primates and being able to live in lots of different social settings sets us apart from non-human primates, suggests research by University ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Bolivian natives enter La Paz after march from Amazon

Hundreds of indigenous people made a triumphal entry into La Paz Wednesday at the end of a two-month march from the Amazon to oppose the construction of a highway through their ancestral homeland.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In bubble-rafting snails, the eggs came first

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's "Waterworld" snail style: Ocean-dwelling snails that spend most of their lives floating upside down, attached to rafts of mucus bubbles.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Archaeopteryx and the dinosaur-bird family tree

The magpie-sized Archaeopteryx had bird and dinosaur features and helped show that birds evolved from dinosaurs. However, recent research in the journal Nature questions its position in the dinosaur-bird family ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Ancient wild horses help unlock past

An international team of researchers has used ancient DNA to produce compelling evidence that the lack of genetic diversity in modern stallions is the result of the domestication process.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plant biologists dissect genetic mechanism enabling plants to overcome environmental challenge

When an animal gets too hot or too cold, or feels pangs of hunger or thirst, it tends to relocate – to where it's cooler or hotter, or to the nearest place where food or water can be found. But what about vegetative ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Life scientists use novel technique to produce genetic map for African Americans

UCLA life scientists and colleagues have produced one of the first high-resolution genetic maps for African American populations. A genetic map reveals the precise locations across the genome where DNA from a person's father ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New genetic risk factors of lupus found in study of African-American women

Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found four new genetic variants in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) that confer a higher risk of systemic lupus erythemathosus ("lupus") in African ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

E. coli offers insight to evolution

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski occasionally thinks of his 12 original flasks of E. coli as the experiment that keeps on giving.

Biology / Evolution

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Policing' stops cheaters from dominating groups of cooperative bacteria

For cooperation to persist in the often violently competitive realm of bacteria, cheaters must be kept in line.

Biology / Evolution

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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