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New raptor dinosaur takes a licking keeps on ticking

Raptor dinosaurs like the iconic Velociraptor from the movie franchise Jurassic Park are renowned for their "fear-factor." Their terrifying image has been popularized in part because members of this group possess a greatly ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Why men's ring fingers are longer than their index fingers

Biologists at the University of Florida have found a reason why men's ring fingers are generally longer than their index fingers — and why the reverse usually holds true for women.

Biology / Other

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 28 | with audio podcast

Researchers solve mystery of disappearing bird digit

Evolution adds and subtracts, and nowhere is this math more evident than in vertebrates, which are programmed to have five digits on each limb. But many species do not. Snakes, of course, have no digits, and ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research team develops advanced live-imaging approach (w/ video)

For modern biologists, the ability to capture high-quality, three-dimensional (3D) images of living tissues or organisms over time is necessary to answer problems in areas ranging from genomics to neurobiology ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Before animals first walked on land, fish carried gene program for limbs

Genetic instructions for developing limbs and digits were present in primitive fish millions of years before their descendants first crawled on to land, researchers have discovered.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 35 | with audio podcast

DigiMorph: Bringing fossils to life (w/ Video)

For hundreds of years, scientists who wanted to examine a rare fossil might have had to travel halfway around the world. And that is not the only challenge when viewing a small, unique or priceless specimen.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Atlas of an organism

While every cell of an organism contains the same genes only a proportion are expressed in any tissue at a given stage in development. Knowing the extent of gene transcription is valuable and a team of European researchers ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Making movies within cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologist Barbara Mellone uses tiny cameras to study what happens when a dividing cell makes a mistake.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Digital embryo gains wings (w/ Video)

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have captured fruit fly development on film, creating the Fly Digital Embryo. In work published today in Nature Methods, they were also the first to cle ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fish out of water: Gene clue to evolutionary step

Two genes controlling a tissue protein may have played a role in the key period when fish shed their fins and became limbed land-lovers, a study published by Nature on Thursday said.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 5


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