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Big city holds empty promise for bats

In the treeless, flat Prairie, you'd think a city would provide a good home for bats who like to snuggle up and roost in trees and buildings. But researchers at the University of Calgary made the surprising ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of European ladybirds

A new study provides compelling evidence that the arrival of the invasive non-native harlequin ladybird to mainland Europe and subsequent spread has led to a rapid decline in historically-widespread species ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pythons apparently wiping out Everglades mammals

A burgeoning population of huge pythons - many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big - appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other mammals ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 8

Winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx dressed for flight

Since its discovery 150 years ago, scientists have puzzled over whether the winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx represents the missing link in birds' evolution to powered flight. Much of the debate has focused on the ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New study to test unusual hypothesis on beta brainwaves

Beta oscillations are tightly linked to Parkinson's disease and the ability to process sensory information, such as touch. Two neuroscientists have brought their collaboration to Brown University and won funding from the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

How drought-tolerant grasses came to be

If you eat bread stuffing or grain-fed turkey this Thanksgiving, give thanks to the grasses — a family of plants that includes wheat, oats, corn and rice. Some grasses, such as corn and sugar cane, have ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists use fossil feathers reveal lineage of extinct, flightless ibis

A remarkable first occurred recently at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History when ornithologists Carla Dove and Storrs Olson used 700- to 1,100-year-old feathers from a long extinct species ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Native bees often better pollinators than honey bee

In 2007, the world was introduced to a plague so disturbing it seemed almost biblical. Out of the blue, honey bees were dropping dead or worse, vanishing into the air by the millions. In the four years since, colony ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Trees on tundra's border are growing faster in a hotter climate

Evergreen trees at the edge of Alaska's tundra are growing faster, suggesting that at least some forests may be adapting to a rapidly warming climate, says a new study.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Research team achieves critical step to opening elusive class of compounds to drug discovery

Taxanes are a family of compounds that includes one of the most important cancer drugs ever discovered, Taxol®, among other cancer treatments. But the difficulty producing these complex molecules in the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers complete mollusk evolutionary tree

Mollusks have been around for so long (at least 500 million years), are so prevalent on land and in water (from backyard gardens to the deep ocean), and are so valuable to people (clam chowder, oysters on ...

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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