News tagged with gerbils
Gerbils also get the winter blues
December 21 -- the date of the winter solstice -- marks the shortest day of the year. Many people may find themselves wanting to spend more time on the couch and less time with friends -- one of the effects ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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China fights gerbil plague with 'the pill'
Authorities in northwestern China have resorted to using a contraception-abortion pill to rein in a plague of gerbils which is threatening the local desert ecosystem, state media said Wednesday.
Mar 25, 2009 |
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New electric diwheel hints at future of city transportation
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a bit of technical wizardry, students from the University of Adelaide, Australia, have devised and built an electric diwheel, that with modification, could possibly solve inner city transportation ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Hidden water holds the key to a changing desert
Passover, which celebrates the Israelites' flight from Egypt, ended Tuesday night. Yet after the exodus, they wandered the desert for 40 more years. There, Moses struck a rock with his staff and made water ...
Apr 27, 2011 |
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Human terrarium, Biosphere 2, looking good at 20
(AP) -- Jane Poynter and seven compatriots agreed to spend two years sealed inside a 3-acre terrarium in the Sonoran Desert. Their mission back in the 1990s: To see whether humans might someday be able to create self-sustaining ...
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Apr 26, 2011 |
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When human ancestors evolved in prehistoric Africa, rodents were abundant, diverse
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rodents get a bad rap as vermin and pests because they seem to thrive everywhere. They have been one of the most common mammals in Africa for the past 50 million years.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 21, 2010 |
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Fat sand rats are SAD like us
(PhysOrg.com) -- Saying goodbye to summer can be difficult for everybody. In some people the onset of winter triggers Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, a mood disorder in which sufferers experience symptoms ...
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Key mechanism in the brain's computation of sound location identified
New York University researchers have identified a mechanism the brain uses to help process sound localization. Their findings, which appear in the latest edition of the journal PLoS Biology, focus on how the brain comput ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 29, 2010 |
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New vaccines may come from forcing giardia parasite to display its many disguises
The intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia changes outfits nearly as often as a fashion model on a Parisian runway. With more than 200 protein coats in its molecular wardrobe, this troublesome creature -- the cause of innumerable ...
Apr 29, 2010 |
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Why Israeli rodents are more cautious than Jordanian ones
A series of studies carried out at the University of Haifa have found that rodent, reptile and ant lion species behave differently on either side of the Israel-Jordan border. "The border line, which is only a demarcation ...
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Is short-term Celecoxib intervention a effective method for preventing gastric carcinogenesis?
Helicobacter pylori has been accepted as an important pathogen inducing gastric cancer. A research group from Taiwan investigated optimal intervention point of Celecoxib, to inhibit H. pylori-associated gastric carcinogenesis ...
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Scientists explore hormone evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research techniques on animals living in the wild are helping scientists test long-held ideas about the role of hormones in survival, according to comments by Professor of Biology Jan ...
Mar 03, 2009 |
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