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Caste in the colony: How fate is determined between workers and queens
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Oct 21, 2008 |
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"The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms…the exploitation of one part of society by the other". – Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
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ASU scientists' research on honey bees featured in 'Science'
Oct 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Arizona State University researchers, Robert Page and Gro Amdam, are the subject of a feature article in the Oct. 25 issue of the journal Science, which traces their collaboration, discov ...
Does work kill in the country of 35-hour week?
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Oct 06, 2009 |
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Short work weeks, enviably long lunches and vacations their American or Japanese counterparts can only dream of: French labour conditions are well-known to be among the most generous in the world.
Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil secrets
May 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn't expect a backlash. The finely detailed woodblock prints have been around for centuries, ...
The biochemical buzz on career changes in bees
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Adults facing unexpected career changes, take note. Scientists from Brazil and Cuba are reporting that honey bees — a mainstay for behavioral research that cannot be done in other animals — change their brains ...
The heart disease mutation carried by 60 million
Jan 18, 2009 |
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Heart disease is the number one killer in the world and India carries more than its share of this burden. Moreover, the problem is set to rise: it is predicted that by 2010 India's population will suffer approximately 60% ...
Fountain of Youth to be found in the anthill?
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Nov 20, 2008 |
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Aging – we are all doing it. It is relentless and terminal. Auguries and alchemists, mendicants and magicians, philosophers and science fiction writers, researchers and plastic surgeons have employed all their ...
Genes and nutrition influence caste in unusual species of harvester ant
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Aug 18, 2008 |
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Researchers trying to determine whether nature or nurture determines an ant's status in the colony have found a surprising answer. Both.
Indian economic miracle bypasses rural poor
Mar 18, 2008 |
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A study of disadvantaged groups in rural India - which make up over 24 per cent of the population - has shed light on why the country' s economic success has largely passed them by.
Research uncovers the social dynamics of yellow jackets
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Feb 18, 2008 |
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Michael Goodisman could be called the Maury Povich of the yellow jacket world. In his laboratory, Goodisman determines the paternity of yellow jackets to study family dynamics within a colony. Even though ...
Worker or queen? Harvester ant moms set daughters' fates
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Feb 14, 2008 |
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When it comes to deciding what harvester ant daughters will be when they grow up, mother queens hold considerable sway, according to a new study published online on February 14th in Current Biology, a publication of Cell ...
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