News tagged with eggs
Two-egg diet cracks cholesterol issue
Aug 28, 2008 |
4.6 / 5 (89) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research published in The European Journal of Nutrition this week has finally cracked the myths surrounding eggs and cholesterol. The new study showed that people who ate two eggs per day, while on a calo ...
Dinosaur whodunit: Solving a 77-million-year-old mystery
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 13, 2008 |
4.4 / 5 (16) |
0
It has all the hallmarks of a Cretaceous melodrama. A dinosaur sits on her nest of a dozen eggs on a sandy river beach. Water levels rise, and the mother is faced with a dilemma: Stay or abandon her unhatched offspring to ...
Professor hatches century-old eggs to study evolution
Jul 17, 2009 |
4.4 / 5 (13) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Suspending a life in time is a theme that normally finds itself in the pages of science fiction, but now such ideas have become a reality in the annals of science.
Hundreds of dinosaur nests found in India
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 02, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (12) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists have discovered hundreds of fossilized nests each containing clutches of eight dinosaur eggs. The eggs were located in sand banks in Tamil Nadu in Southern India.
Egg-irony: High cholesterol food may reduce blood pressure
Feb 20, 2009 |
4.2 / 5 (11) |
2
Researchers in Canada are reporting evidence that eggs — often frowned upon for their high cholesterol content — may reduce another heart disease risk factor — high blood pressure.
Darwin egg from Beagle voyage found by museum volunteer
Apr 10, 2009 |
3.6 / 5 (11) |
2
(PhysOrg.com) -- An egg collected by Charles Darwin while on HMS Beagle - and thought to be the last such specimen known to exist - has been rediscovered by an octogenarian volunteer at Cambridge University's Zoology Museum.
Bizarre bird gets private beach in Indonesia
May 15, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (8) |
0
(AP) -- A species of birds able to fly immediately after hatching from eggs buried beneath the tropical sand has just been given its own private beach in eastern Indonesia, a conservation group said Friday.
New research shows high-quality protein in eggs contributes to power, strength and energy
Feb 17, 2009 |
4.4 / 5 (8) |
1
A research review published recently in Nutrition Today affirms that the high-quality protein in eggs makes a valuable contribution to muscle strength, provides a source of sustained energy and promotes satiety. High-quality protei ...
Alligators hint at what life may have been like for dinosaurs
Apr 17, 2009 |
4.1 / 5 (8) |
3
During the last 540 million years, the earth's oxygen levels have fluctuated wildly. Knowing that the dinosaurs appeared around the time when oxygen levels were at their lowest at 12%, Tomasz Owerkowicz, Ruth ...
The sophisticated sex lives of sea squirts
Biology /
Aug 26, 2008 |
3.4 / 5 (9) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- It may not be pretty, but the humble sea squirt could well be the envy of many: the marine organism never has to worry about contraceptives or IVF.
Red-eyed treefrog embryos actively avoid asphyxiation inside their eggs
Biology /
Nov 03, 2008 |
4.1 / 5 (7) |
0
Boston University undergraduate Jessica Rogge and associate professor Karen Warkentin, working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's laboratories in Gamboa, Panama, discovered that frog embryos ...
Prehistoric turtle goes to hospital for CT scan in search for skull, eggs, embryos
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 15, 2009 |
3.9 / 5 (7) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Michael Knell carried a 75-million-year-old turtle into Bozeman Deaconess hospital recently, then laid it carefully on the bed that slides into the CT scanner.
How birds spot the cuckoo in the nest
Biology /
Jul 15, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (6) |
0
It's not always easy spotting the cuckoo in the nest. But if you don't, you pay a high price raising someone else's chick. How hosts distinguish impostor eggs from their own has long puzzled scientists.
Anti-inflammatory effect of 'rotten eggs' gas
May 21, 2009 |
5 / 5 (5) |
0
Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter have synthesized a new molecule which releases hydrogen sulfide (H2S) - the gas that gives rotten eggs their characteristic smell and which has recently been found to b ...
The egg makes sure that sperm don't get too old
Mar 25, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (5) |
0
In contrast to women, men are fertile throughout life, but research at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has now shown that a fertilising sperm can get help from the egg to rejuvenate. The result ...
