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Travelers save money, make friends through global Web site
May 04, 2009 |
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When Will Bradwell and his friends were planning a cross-country road trip three years ago, the idea of paying for hotels, gas and food seemed impossible for their college-student budgets.
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The hitchhiker's guide to altruism -- Study explains how costly traits evolve
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Jan 19, 2007 |
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Darwin explained how beneficial traits accumulate in natural populations, but how do costly traits evolve? In the past, two theories have addressed this problem.
Genes key to staph disease severity, drug resistance found hitchhiking together
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Scientists studying Staphylococcus bacteria, including methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), have discovered a potent staph toxin responsible for disease severity. They also found the gene for the toxin traveling with a geneti ...
Queen's marine biologist investigates aliens beneath the waves
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Jun 16, 2008 |
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Queen's University Belfast is appealing for help from the public in looking at ways to detect and stop the spread of marine aliens.
Scientist names top 5 invasive plants threatening Southern forests in 2009
Jan 12, 2009 |
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U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) Ecologist Jim Miller, Ph.D., one of the foremost authorities on nonnative plants in the South, today identified the invasive plant species he believes pose the biggest threats ...
New ballast treatment could protect Great Lakes fish
Jun 04, 2008 |
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A Michigan Technological University professor has developed a new water treatment that could help keep a deadly fish disease out of Lake Superior.
Estimation of isolation times in the Drosophila simulans complex
Jun 25, 2008 |
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The Drosophila simulans species complex continues to serve as an important model system for the study of new species formation. The complex is comprised of the cosmopolitan species, D. simulans, and two island endemics, D. ...
Zebra mussels hang on while quagga mussels take over
Jun 12, 2009 |
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The zebra mussels that have wreaked ecological havoc on the Great Lakes are harder to find these days — not because they are dying off, but because they are being replaced by a cousin, the quagga mussel. But zebra mussels ...
New research could lead to no scent, no sex for the Japanese beetle
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Jun 30, 2008 |
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No scent. No sex. If a male Japanese beetle is unable to detect the sex pheromone released by a female, he won't be able to locate her and reproduce.
Annual Tahoe Report Says Asian Clam Invasion Is Growing Fast
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Released today, UC Davis' annual Lake Tahoe health report describes a spreading Asian clam population that could put sharp shells and rotting algae on the spectacular mountain lake's popular ...
Space Station Tricorder
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 12, 2008 |
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Any Trekkies out there? Remember the tricorder? Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock both carried them, and they came in mighty handy exploring "strange new worlds ...where no one has gone before."
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