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Crickets in the Lab

Crickets may predict human survivability during global warming

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How well crickets adapt to rising temperatures may provide clues about whether or not humans can survive global warming.





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Researcher discover fundamental processes behind nature's constant balancing act

Biology /

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 1

The natural world behaves a lot like the stock market, with periods of relative stability interspersed with dramatic swings in population size and competition between individuals and species.


Earth's biogeochemical cycles, once in concert, falling out of sync

Earth's biogeochemical cycles, once in concert, falling out of sync

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- What do the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone," global climate change, and acid rain have in common? They're all a result of human impacts to Earth's biology, chemistry and geology, and the natural ...


Delayed sleep phase syndrome linked to irregular menstrual cycles, premenstrual symptoms in women

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 10, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Women with delayed sleep phase syndrome are more likely to report irregular menstrual cycles and premenstrual symptoms, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Tuesday at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd Annual Meeting ...


New rechargeable zinc-air batteries coming soon

New rechargeable zinc-air batteries coming soon

Technology / Energy

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (45) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new breed of rechargeable zinc-air batteries is soon to be available, and may replace lithium-ion batteries in cell phones, laptops and other consumer items. Lithium-ion batteries store ...


Saharan dust storms sustain life in Atlantic Ocean

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 18, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Research at the University of Liverpool has found how Saharan dust storms help sustain life over extensive regions of the North Atlantic Ocean.


Desert dust alters ecology of Colorado alpine meadows

Desert Dust Alters Ecology of Colorado Alpine Meadows

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (50) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Accelerated snowmelt--precipitated by desert dust blowing into the mountains--changes how alpine plants respond to seasonal climate cues that regulate their life cycles, according to results ...


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Baby's first dreams: Research reveals sleep cycles in early fetus

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

After about seven months growing in the womb, a human fetus spends most of its time asleep. Its brain cycles back and forth between the frenzied activity of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and the quiet resting ...


West African Ocean sediment core links monsoons to global climate evolution

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 31, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Monsoons, the life-giving, torrential rains of Asia and Africa, have an ancient, unsuspected connection to previous Ice Age climate cycles, according to scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Kiel ...


New effort probes how two groups of viruses cause disease

New effort probes how two groups of viruses cause disease

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University is leading a team of researchers in a federally funded effort aimed ultimately at developing better vaccines and antiviral drugs against two types of disease-causing viruses ...


Geological landforms indicate 'recent' warm weather on Mars

Geological landforms indicate 'recent' warm weather on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research led by a UK scientist indicates that Mars had significantly warmer weather in its recent past than previously thought. The research, funded by the UK’s Science and Technology ...



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