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A brown shrike

In Taiwan, bird catchers turn bird watchers

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When Yeh You-chin was a boy half a century ago, he ate migratory birds with relish, but now he is at the forefront of efforts to preserve the feathered visitors to his south Taiwan home.


New study cites lower rate of quakes along some subduction zones

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most earthquakes occur along fault lines, which form boundaries between two tectonic plates. As the relative speed of the plates around a fault increases, is there a corresponding increase in the number of earthquakes produced ...


BirdsEye -- a new iPhone app -- resolves your rapture for raptors or finding a finch

Biology / Other

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

Looking for larks? Searching for surfbirds? Checking for chickadees? There's an app for that.


Species down, disease up: Study shows biodiversity loss drives human infections

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The extinction of plant and animal species can be likened to emptying a museum of its collection, or dumping a cabinet full of potential medicines into the trash, or replacing every local cuisine with McDonald's burgers.


Sylvia atricapilla (Blackcap)

By feeding the birds, you could change their evolutionary fate

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Feeding birds in winter is a most innocent human activity, but it can nonetheless have profound effects on the evolutionary future of a species, and those changes can be seen in the very near term. That's ...


Transplant infectious disease experts provide pandemic guidance

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Surgeons and other healthcare professionals specialising in solid organ transplants have been issued with expert advice to guide them through the complex clinical issues posed by the global H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic.


Flight of fancy

Flight of fancy: MIT autonomous mini-helicopter solves one tough challenge

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 2

In its first 18 years, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s annual aerial-robotics competition posed four successive challenges, which robotics researchers had to meet using entirely ...


Nida getting knocked by winds, and 97W piquing interest

Nida getting knocked by winds, and 97W piquing interest

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nida is now a tropical storm, and is being knocked around by wind shear in the Western Pacific. Satellite imagery has confirmed Nida's center of circulation is exposed and the storm is losing its circular ...


Some birds listen, instead of look, for mates

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Looks can be deceiving, but certain bird species have figured out that a voice can tell them most of what they need to know to find the right mate.


Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition

Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Center of Excellence to design nanostructures for energy harvesting and adaptive materials, and to develop tools to optimize critical cognitive ...



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