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Wolves, moose and biodiversity: An unexpected connection

Wolves, moose and biodiversity: An unexpected connection

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Moose eat plants; wolves kill moose. What difference does this classic predator-prey interaction make to biodiversity?


A Canadian scientist is planning to turn chickens into dinosaurs

Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (23) | comments 33

After years spent hunting for the buried remains of prehistoric animals, a Canadian paleontologist now plans to manipulate chicken embryos to show he can create a dinosaur.


Probing life's extremes in Yellowstone

Probing life's extremes in Yellowstone (w/ Podcast)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Idaho National Laboratory biologist Frank Roberto squats on a bare, gravelly patch of ground in Yellowstone National Park's rolling backcountry. At his feet, scalding water churns in a mustard-yellow ...


Study finds link between Parkinson's disease genes and manganese poisoning

Study finds link between Parkinson's disease genes and manganese poisoning

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

A connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson's disease has been discovered by a research team led by Aaron D. Gitler, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental ...


India to move all zoo elephants to wildlife parks (AP)

India to move all zoo elephants to wildlife parks

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- All elephants living in Indian zoos and circuses will be moved to wildlife parks and game sanctuaries where the animals can graze more freely, officials said Friday.


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Simulations, ancient magnetism suggest mantle plumes may bend deep beneath Earth's crust

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Computer simulations, paleomagnetism and plate motion histories described in today's issue of Science reveal how hotspots, centers of erupting magma that sit atop columns of hot mantle that were once though ...


Geographic isolation drives the evolution of a hot springs microbe

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Sulfolobus islandicus, a microbe that can live in boiling acid, is offering up its secrets to researchers hardy enough to capture it from the volcanic hot springs where it thrives. In a new study, researchers report that p ...


NYC eco island

NYC to Construct Eco Tourist Island

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (6) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2003, the state and city of New York bought Governor's Island from the federal government for $1. Once used as a military base by the US Army and Coast Guard, the 172-acre island located ...


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'Vicious' Giant Python Invading Florida

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New studies suggest a 20 foot snake, the African rock python, is making its home in Florida and could soon invade the Everglades National Park.


Lieberose will produce enough power for 15,000 homes

Germany's biggest solar park inaugurated

Technology / Energy

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Germany's largest solar park, and the world's second biggest, was inaugurated on Thursday on the site of a former Soviet military training ground in the east of the country.


The tourist trap: Galapagos victim of its own success

The tourist trap: Galapagos victim of its own success

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mosquitoes with the potential to carry diseases lethal to many unique species of Galapagos wildlife are being regularly introduced to the islands via aircraft, according to new research published ...


Galapagos volcano erupts, could threaten wildlife (AP)

Galapagos volcano erupts, could threaten wildlife

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 8

(AP) -- Ecuador officials say a volcano is erupting in the Galapagos Islands and could harm unique wildlife.


Will Murphy, 7, inspects the teeth of a Theropod dinosaur

Australian scientists hail triple dinosaur find

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 1

Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.


Wolf reintroduction proposed in Scottish Highland test case

Wolf reintroduction proposed in Scottish Highland test case

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers are proposing in a new report that a major experiment be conducted to reintroduce wolves to a test site in the Scottish Highlands, to help control the populations and behavior of red deer that ...


Cross-Dressing Rubidium May Reveal Clues for Exotic Computing

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neutral atoms--having no net electric charge--usually don't act very dramatically around a magnetic field. But by “dressing them up” with light, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaborative ...