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Researcher uncovers koalas' creature comforts
Mar 10, 2009 |
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University of Queensland Master of Science student Maren Dammann is aiming to uncover what makes a koala's wish list when it comes to choosing a place to live.
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Some Ningaloo Reef fish are 'homebodies'
Jun 18, 2009 |
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New research shows that some fish species in Western Australia's Ningaloo Marine Park spend most of their time close to home, staying on the reef rather than travelling significant distances, as was previously thought.
New technique allows simultaneous tracking of gene expression and movement
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Flies expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) in their retina cells or other tissues can be tracked by specially modified video cameras, creating a real time computer record of movement and gene expression. The new technique, ...
New human movement model can aid in studying epidemic outbreaks, public planning
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Researchers have developed a new statistical model that simulates human mobility patterns, mimicking the way people move over the course of a day, a month or longer. The model, developed by scientists at North Carolina State ...
Special brain wave boost slows motion
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Researchers have found that they can make people move in slow motion by boosting one type of brain wave. The findings offer some of the first proof that brain waves can have a direct influence on behavior, ...
When it comes to putting, Tiger and Nicklaus might not have best advice
Jul 14, 2008 |
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Golfers who heed the advice of instructors to keep their heads perfectly still while putting may be hampering their game, according to a study that examined coordination patterns. The research appears in the ...
Researchers unravel intricate animal patterns
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Apr 17, 2007 |
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There is a scene in the animated blockbuster "Finding Nemo" when a school of fish makes a rapid string of complicated patterns—an arrow, a portrait of young Nemo and other intricate designs. While the detailed shapes might ...
Flight of the bumble (and honey) bee
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Insects such as honeybees and bumble bees are predictable in the way they move among flowers, typically moving directly from one flower to an adjacent cluster of flowers in the same row of plants. The bees' ...
New study pinpoints difference in the way children with autism learn new behaviors
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Jul 06, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have collaborated to uncover important new insights into the neurological basis of autism.
In the race to the top, zigzagging is more efficient than a straight line
Feb 20, 2008 |
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A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it isn’t necessarily the fastest or easiest path to follow.
Human language and dolphin movement patterns show similarities in brevity
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Two researchers from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom have shown for the first time that the law of brevity in human language, according to ...
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