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A novel hypothesis for beetle diversification -- Loss of flight promotes beetle diversification

Professor Teiji Sota, Department of Zoology at Kyoto University, and his group demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification. This finding has been published ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Anthropologists clarify link between Asians and early Native-Americans

A tiny mountainous region in southern Siberia may have been the genetic source of the earliest Native Americans, according to new research by a University of Pennsylvania-led team of anthropologists.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers closer to understanding the evolution of sound production in fish

An international team of researchers studying sound production in perch-like fishes has discovered a link between two unrelated lineages of fishes, taking researchers a step closer to understanding the evolution of one of ...

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Changes in the path of brain development make human brains unique

How the human brain and human cognitive abilities evolved in less than six million years has long puzzled scientists. A new study conducted by scientists in China and Germany, and published December 6 in the online, open-access ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

An online global map of coral and zooxanthellae data for climate change study is released

A team of researchers from the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) have developed an interactive global map of corals and zooxanthellae as part of a hybrid web application titled GeoSymbio. This application provides global-scale biological and ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Last universal common ancestor more complex than previously thought

Scientists call it LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor, but they don't know much about this great-grandparent of all living things. Many believe LUCA was little more than a crude assemblage of molecular parts, a chemical ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

When plants go polyploid

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant lineages with multiple copies of their genetic information face higher extinction rates than their relatives, researchers report in Science magazine.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Endangered horse has ancient origins and high genetic diversity, new study finds

An endangered species of horse -- known as Przewalski's horse -- is much more distantly related to the domestic horse than researchers had previously hypothesized, reports a team of investigators led by Kateryna ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists offer way to address 'age-old' questions

Scientists have devised a method to measure the impact of age on the growth rates of cellular populations, a development that offers new ways to understand and model the growth of bacteria, and could provide new insights ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

King Tut and half of European men share DNA

According to a group of geneticists in Switzerland from iGENEA, the DNA genealogy center, as many as half of all European men and 70 percent of British men share the same DNA as the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (21) | comments 14 | with audio podcast report

Depletion of the body snatchers: Bad news for marine environment

A recent study conducted for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has determined that 20 percent of hagfish species are at an elevated risk of extinction*. Scientists warn that this figure could be much ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Famed fossil isn't a bird after all, analysis says

(AP) -- One of the world's most famous fossil creatures, widely considered the earliest known bird, is getting a rude present on the 150th birthday of its discovery: A new analysis suggests it isn't a bird ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 9

Sexless for a million years, stick bugs elude extinction

(PhysOrg.com) -- Simon Fraser University biologists say a species of stick insect found to be celibate for 1.5 million years raises questions about why these particular lineages have escaped extinction thus ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

UK drops DNA tests for refugees and asylum seekers

(AP) -- Britain has dropped a controversial policy of using DNA tests to identify the nationality of African refugees and asylum seekers after criticism that there is no scientific merit to the practice.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research provides clues on why hair turns gray

A new study by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center has shown that, for the first time, Wnt signaling, already known to control many biological processes, between hair follicles and melanocyte stem cells can dictate ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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