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Webcam fans mourn Calif. bald eagle chick deaths

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The only bald eagle nest on Santa Cruz Island is now a lonely place, one that webcam viewers were delighted to monitor just a few weeks ago.





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Research backs legend of man-eating bird

Research backs legend of man-eating bird

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A huge flesh-eating eagle that became extinct in New Zealand only 500 years ago was an efficient hunter that could attack prey 10 times its size, UNSW research has found, lending credibility ...


Extinct New Zealand eagle may have eaten humans

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 3

(AP) -- Sophisticated computer scans of fossils have helped solve a mystery over the nature of a giant, ancient raptor known as the Haast's eagle which became extinct about 500 years ago, researchers said Friday.


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Study: Cancer may pass from mother to unborn child

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has provided genetic evidence for the first time that it is possible for a mother to transmit cancer to her unborn child via the placenta.


Patients can safely skip pre-surgery stress tests and beta blockers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicians should "throttle back" from routinely ordering stress tests and prescribing beta blockers to patients before non-cardiac surgeries, according to a report by the University of Michigan released online this week.


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Rhesus macaque moms 'go gaga' for baby, too

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The intense exchanges that human mothers share with their newborn infants may have some pretty deep roots, suggests a study of rhesus macaques reported online on October 8th in Current Biology.


Checkered history of mother and daughter cells explains cell cycle differences (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When mother and daughter cells are created each time a cell divides, they are not exactly alike. They have the same set of genes, but differ in the way they regulate them. New research now reveals that these regulatory differences ...


Inside the dark heart of the Eagle

Inside the dark heart of the Eagle

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Herschel has peered inside an unseen stellar nursery and revealed surprising amounts of activity. Some 700 newly-forming stars are estimated to be crowded into filaments of dust stretching ...


Syntax in our primate cousins

Syntax in our primate cousins

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study carried out in Ivory Coast has shown that monkeys of a certain forest-dwelling species called Campbell's monkeys emit six types of alert calls. The primates combine these calls into ...


Afghan woman gives birth to headless conjoined twin: doctor

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created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An Afghan woman has given birth to a baby boy attached at the chest to a headless conjoined twin, a doctor at a hospital in northern Afghanistan said Monday.


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Like mother, like daughter, at least around the eyes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research suggests the old saying commonly told to husbands-to-be is true, that if you want to know what your wife will look like, look at her mother.



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