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Birds 'See' Earth's Magnetic Field

Birds 'See' Earth's Magnetic Field

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2

When birds migrate over long distances -- sometimes thousands of miles -- they usually end up in exactly the same place year after year. Such accurate feats of navigation, accomplished by millions of birds ...


Birds Call to Warn Friends and Enemies

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Birds' alarm calls serve both to alert other birds to danger and to warn off predators. And some birds can pull a ventriloquist's trick, singing from the side of their mouths, according to a UC Davis study.


Study explores violent world of raptors

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

A journey that started with a box of bird feet carried three Montana State University graduate students into the gruesome world of raptors and led to their findings being published in a prominent journal.


Some obese people perceive body size as OK, dismiss need to lose weight

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Some obese people misperceive that their body size is normal and think they don't need to lose weight, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2009.


Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brains

Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brains

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.


Extinct goat Myotragus balearicus

Extinct goat was cold-blooded

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (39) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.


When It Comes to Drug Delivery, Size Matters

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the great promises of nanotechnologies lies in its ability to create drug-containing nanoparticles decorated with targeting molecules that recognize and bind to cancer cells, providing drug delivery ...


New forensic technique gives clues about sharks from bite damage

Biology / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hit-and-run attacks by sharks can be solved with a new technique that identifies the culprits by the unique chomp they put on their victims, according to a University of Florida researcher and shark expert.


Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world's smallest semiconductor laser, ...


The Ecosia search engine

Ecosia search engine fights climate change

Technology / Internet

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 0

An Ecosia search engine launching Monday is counting on the world's fascination with the Internet to help save Brazilian rainforests and battle global warming.



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