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Our Amorphophallus is smaller: New plant species from Madagascar smells like roadkill
The famed "corpse flower" plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that i ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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How to break Murphy's Law
Murphy's Law is a useful scapegoat for human error: "If something can go wrong, it will." But, a new study by researchers in Canada hopes to put paid to this unscientific excuse for errors by showing that the introduction ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
(AP) -- Tucked between treatises on algae and prehistoric turquoise beads, the study on page 460 of a long-ago issue of the U.S. journal Science drew little attention.
Sep 24, 2011 |
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Britain's rarest spider moves to new home
The UK’s rarest spider is moving house today -- in a plastic bottle supplied by conservation group the RSPB.
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Storing seeds for a rainy day -- or in this case, a fire
As mountain pine beetles march across the forests of western North America, these insects may kill millions of pine trees during a single outbreak. A rise in overall temperatures over the past several years has increased ...
May 31, 2011 |
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Beetlemania: The joy of dung
Darren Mann likes nothing better than getting his hands dirty. He’s at his happiest in the field with magnifying glass and notebook, delving into a fresh pile of poo. He is an insect expert and a specialist ...
May 09, 2011 |
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Sundews just want to be loved
Sex can be complicated at the best of times, but plants have an extra difficulty. If you're a plant who relies on insects to pollinate your flowers and reproduce, you will want your flowerstalks to be long. ...
Aug 17, 2010 |
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Dig discovers ancient Britons were earliest North Europeans
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University College London archaeologist is part of a team who have unearthed the earliest evidence of human occupation in Britain.
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Jul 08, 2010 |
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Scientists reveal cracks in egg theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Cambridge have found cracks in the long-standing theory that the number of eggs animals have -- and the size of those eggs -- is related to how much parental care they invest ...
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Dung beetle named after Darwin
A dung beetle from Costa Rica has been named after Charles Darwin and the Darwin Initiative. It was discovered during a Natural History Museum led expedition.
Sep 22, 2009 |
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