News tagged with pollinator movements

Flight of the bumble (and honey) bee

Mar 20, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

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' ...

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Why England's soccer team keeps losing on penalties

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

9 hours ago | 4 / 5 (4) | 3

A new study may explain why the England soccer team keeps losing in penalty shootouts - and could help the team address the problem in time for the World Cup 2010. Research by the University of Exeter shows ...

Surgery on beating heart thanks to robotic helping hand

Medicine & Health / Other

11 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

If you've been waiting for the day to arrive when computers actually start performing surgery, that moment might soon be upon us. A French team has developed a computerized 3D model that allows surgeons to use robotics to ...

Sucking Up To Survive

Biology / Plants & Animals

Dec 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

Shrink a human being down to the size of an insect, and you would no longer be able to sip lemonade from a straw. The forces that hold liquid together would simply be too great to overcome at that tiny scale.

Stanford researchers develop the next generation of retinal implants

Medicine & Health / Research

Dec 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (9) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Stanford researchers has developed a new generation of retinal implants that aims to provide higher resolution and make artificial vision more natural.

Early carnivorous dinosaurs crossed continents

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 10, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

Did the first dinosaurs wander across continents or stay put where they first evolved? The first dinosaurs evolved 230 million years ago when the continents were assembled into one landmass called Pangea. ...

Sea level is rising along US Atlantic coast, say Penn environmental scientists

Sea level is rising along US Atlantic coast, say environmental scientists

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 10, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (12) | 2

An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was 2 millimeters faster in the 20th century ...

Microscopic gyroscopes, the key for motion sensing

Technology / Engineering

Dec 09, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny devices made possible by combining the latest advances in mechanical and electronics technology could be at the heart of next-generation personal navigation and vehicle stabilisation ...

Charles Darwin: More than the origin

Biology / Evolution

Dec 09, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Although Charles Darwin is most well-known for his book On the Origin of Species, in which he described the process of natural selection, he greatly contributed to many specific fields within biology. As ...

Tropical birds waited for land crossing between North and South America: study

Biology / Plants & Animals

Dec 09, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 1

Despite their ability to fly, tropical birds waited until the formation of the land bridge between North and South America to move northward, according to a University of British Columbia study published this ...