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Tree of life

Evolution may take giant leaps

Biology / Evolution

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of thousands of species of plants and animals suggests new species may arise from rare events instead of through an accumulation of small changes made in response to changes in ...


'Extreme' genes shed light on origins of photosynthesis

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 11 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

While most school children understand that green plants photosynthesize, absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, few people consider the profound global-scale effects that photosynthesis has had on Earth. One of those actively ...


Weir in space and dimmed sun creates 200-million-mile-long lab bench for turbulence research

Weir in space and dimmed sun creates 200-million-mile-long lab bench for turbulence research

Physics / General Physics

created 18 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicists working in space plasmas have made clever use of the Ulysses spacecraft and the solar minimum to create a massive virtual lab bench to provide a unique test for the science underlying turbulent ...


Physics rules network dynamics

Physics rules network dynamics

Physics / General Physics

created 14 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to the workings of the Web, the brain, or a social network, physics finds universal truths.


Syntax in our primate cousins

Syntax in our primate cousins

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 16 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study carried out in Ivory Coast has shown that monkeys of a certain forest-dwelling species called Campbell's monkeys emit six types of alert calls. The primates combine these calls into ...


Bacterial protein mimics its host to disable a key enzyme (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria use all sorts of cunning to trick hosts into doing their bidding. One con in their bag of tricks: the molecular mimic. In this ruse, bacteria or their agents look for all purposes like some native ...



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