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Wiping out the world's mass migrations
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Densely packed wildebeests flowing over the Serengeti, bison teeming across the Northern Plains—these iconic images extend from Hollywood epics to the popular imagination. But the fact is, all of the world's ...
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Migratory moths may hitch their rides, but they're anything but drifters
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Oct 13, 2008 |
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Night-traveling migratory moths may hitch a ride on the wind, but a new study in the October 14th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, confirms that they are anything but drifters.
Oetzi the Iceman dressed like a herdsman
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 21, 2008 |
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A famous Neolithic Iceman is dressed in clothes made from sheep and cattle hair, a new study shows. The researchers say their findings support the idea that the Iceman was a herdsman, and that their technique, reported today ...
Climate change makes migrations longer for birds
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Bird migrations are likely to get longer according to the first ever study of the potential impacts of climate change on the breeding and winter ranges of migrant birds.
Red knot birds threatened by crab decline
Feb 21, 2006 |
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Virginia Tech and New Jersey scientists say a reduction in the number of red knot shorebirds is linked with a decline in Delaware Bay's horseshoe crabs.
Call for further study on meningococcal vaccine
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Epidemiologist Dr Mahomed Patel said that an analysis of historical patterns of meningococcal incidence should also be examined to better understand, and further prevent, the bacterial infection.
Elpida Begins Mass Production of 40nm 2-Gigabit DDR3 SDRAM
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that its Hiroshima Plant has begun volume production of 40nm process 2-gigabit DDR3 SDRAMs. Since completing development ...
Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary System
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Before our planets found their way to the stable orbits they circle in today, they wiggled and jostled about like unsettled children. Now, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a young ...
Why newborn babies can't walk
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first steps of an infant is a real milestone in the development of all mammals including humans, but little is known about why some animals can walk soon after birth, while others need ...
Scientists discover a new mechanism controlling neuronal migration
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 15, 2009 |
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The molecular machinery that helps brain cells migrate to their correct place in the developing brain has been identified by scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The finding offers new insight into the forces ...
Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component ...
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