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King crab family bigger than ever

King crab family bigger than ever

Biology / Ecology

created 23 hours ago | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sally Hall, a PhD student at the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) has formally described four new species of king ...


Researchers take part in DNA sequencing for entire Pacific island

Researchers plan DNA sequencing for entire Pacific island

Biology / Plants & Animals

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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Florida researchers are collecting marine invertebrates on the French Polynesian island of Moorea as part of a massive effort to inventory the DNA sequence of every living species ...


Lizards change their diet to avoid predators

Lizards change their diet to avoid predators

Biology / Plants & Animals

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A scientist from the University of Salamanca and another from Yale University have shown that the presence of predators affects the behaviour of Acanthodactylus beershebensis, a lizard species from the Ne ...


Illinois to poison canal in hopes of killing invasive carp

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The largest fish kill in Illinois history -- expected to net 100 tons of fish including, hopefully, some Asian carp -- is to start Wednesday south of Chicago in an attempt to make sure none of the feared carp make it past ...


Antarctica served as climatic refuge in Earth's greatest extinction event

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A new fossil species suggests that some land animals may have survived the end-Permian extinction by living in cooler climates in Antarctica. Researchers have identified a distant relative of mammals that apparently survived ...


Research shows some plants can remove indoor pollutants

Research shows some plants can remove indoor pollutants

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some plants have the ability to drastically reduce levels of indoor pollutants, according to new research at the University of Georgia. Researchers showed that certain species can effectively ...


Fish with attitude: Some like it hot

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Coral reef fish can undergo a personality change in warmer water, according to an intriguing new study suggesting that climate change may make some species more aggressive.


Fears mount over giant carp reaching Great Lakes (AP)

Fears mount over giant carp reaching Great Lakes

Space & Earth / Environment

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(AP) -- Fears that giant, voracious species of carp will get into the Great Lakes and wipe out other fish have led to rising demands that the government close the waterway connecting the lakes to the Mississippi ...


Newly explored bacteria reveal some huge RNA surprises

Newly explored bacteria reveal some huge RNA surprises

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have found very large RNA structures within previously unstudied bacteria that appear crucial to basic biological functions such as helping viruses infect cells ...


High urea levels in chronic kidney failure might be toxic after all

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It is thought that the elevated levels of urea (the byproduct of protein breakdown that is excreted in the urine) in patients with end-stage kidney failure are not particularly toxic.



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