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Exotic Chameleon Spends Most of its Life as an Egg

Exotic Chameleon Spends Most of its Life as an Egg

Biology /

created Jul 11, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a chameleon species that spends a good two-thirds of its life inside an egg: Furcifer labordi lives about 8-9 months as an embryo, and has a post-hatching lifesp ...





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Chronic kidney disease profoundly impacts quality of life

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) can significantly lessen patients' quality of life, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). Certain types of pati ...


Extinction runs in the family

Extinction runs in the family

Biology / Evolution

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Global calamities like the one that doomed most dinosaurs forever alter the varieties of life found on Earth, but new research shows that it doesn't take a catastrophe to end entire lineages. ...


Life mag goes online through Google scan project

Technology / Internet

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Decades of Life magazine have been scanned and posted online, giving the public the first comprehensive electronic access to the iconic publication's archives.


Darwin meets Facebook

Biology / Other

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Natural history plans to chart life on earth, yet the discipline risks being buried under a landslide of painstakingly collected data that isn't always used. Now researchers at London's Natural History Museum have created ...


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Early life on Earth may have developed more quickly than thought (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 0

The Earth's climate was far cooler -- perhaps more than 50 degrees -- billions of years ago, which could mean conditions for life all over the planet were more conducive than previously believed, according ...


Mars breakthrough: Scientists uncover red planet's hot and steamy secrets

Mars breakthrough: Scientists uncover red planet's hot and steamy secrets

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- An analysis of Martian meteorites has led scientists to believe that Mars was molten for up to 100 million years after it formed, thwarting the evolution of early life on the planet.


The man who could have been Henry VIII

The man who could have been Henry VIII

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This year has seen the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession, and the start of the third television series of The Tudors -- yet we might so easily have been celebrating King Arthur I ...


Online Encyclopedia of Life reaches 150,000 species

Online Encyclopedia of Life reaches 150,000 species

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The public and scientists have helped create the first 150,000 species pages in the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), the global online project to create a page for each of the 1.8 million known species on the planet.


Pre-eclampsia linked to thyroid problems

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Women who develop pre-eclampsia during pregnancy are more likely than other women to have reduced thyroid function (hypothyroidism), finds a study published in BMJ today. It may also put women at a greater risk of thyroi ...


More oxygen -- colder climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 6

Everybody talks about CO2 and other greenhouse gases as causes of global warming and the large climate changes we are currently experiencing. But what about the atmospheric and oceanic oxygen content? Which role does oxyge ...



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