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Why you can't hurry love
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Jan 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have developed a mathematical model of the mating game to help explain why courtship is often protracted. The study, by researchers at UCL (University College London), University of Warwick and ...
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Courtship pattern shaped by emergence of a new gene in fruit flies
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May 26, 2008 |
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When a young gene known as sphinx is inactivated in the common fruit fly, it leads to increased male-male courtship, scientists report in the May 27, 2008, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Singing to females makes male birds' brains happy
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Oct 03, 2008 |
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The melodious singing of birds has been long appreciated by humans, and has often been thought to reflect a particularly positive emotional state of the singer. In a new study published in the online, open-access journal ...
New research sheds light on shimmering superconductivity and the courtship of electrons
Oct 04, 2007 |
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In their normal state, electrons repel each other because of their charge, but in the state of superconductivity, electrons pair up. John Schlueter, a chemist from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National ...
Disabling a sensory organ prompts female mice to act like male mice
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Aug 05, 2007 |
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By short-circuiting the sensory organ that detects the chemical cues mice use to attract mates, a team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers has prompted female mice to behave like male mice in the throes ...
Scientists discover mechanism for wind detection in fruit flies (w/Video)
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Tiny, lightweight fruit flies need to know when it's windy out so they can steady themselves and avoid being knocked off their feet or blown off course. But how do they figure out that it's time to hunker down? According ...
Female guppies risk death to avoid sexual harassment
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Aug 06, 2008 |
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Sexual harassment from male guppies is so bad that long-suffering females will risk their lives to escape it, according to new research from Dr Safi Darden and Dr Darren Croft from Bangor University. Their work, which was ...
Faithful males do not bring flowers
May 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fairy-wrens are notorious for their infidelity: despite living in seemingly harmonious monogamous pairs, females produce mostly illegitimate young, and males spend more time courting other ...
Fighting Like a Girl or Boy Determined By Gene in Fruit Flies
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Nov 19, 2006 |
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Fighting like a girl or fighting like a boy is hardwired into fruit fly neurons, according to a study in the Nov. 19 Nature Neuroscience advance online publication by a research team from Harvard Medical School ...
Good date gift: expensive but worthless
Jul 27, 2005 |
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British researchers say if men believe they are frittering away their money wining and dining a girl to win her hand, they should think again.
Male seahorses like big mates
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Male seahorses have a clear agenda when it comes to selecting a mating partner: to increase their reproductive success. By being choosy and preferring large females, they are likely to have more and bigger eggs, as well as ...
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