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Proceedings of the Royal Society is the parent title of two scientific journals published by the Royal Society.

Originally a single journal, "Proceedings" was split into two separate journals in 1905;

The two journals are the Royal Society's main research journals.

Many celebrated names in science have published their research in Proc. R. Soc., including Dirac, Heisenberg, Maxwell, Rutherford and Schrödinger.

For more information about Proceedings of the Royal Society, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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duck

Researchers reveal secrets of duck sex: It's all screwed up

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Female ducks have evolved an intriguing way to avoid becoming impregnated by undesirable but aggressive males endowed with large corkscrew-shaped penises: vaginas with clockwise spirals that thwart oppositely ...


Birds Call to Warn Friends and Enemies

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Birds' alarm calls serve both to alert other birds to danger and to warn off predators. And some birds can pull a ventriloquist's trick, singing from the side of their mouths, according to a UC Davis study.


Variable Temperatures Leave Insects wtih a Frosty Reception

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists at The University of Western Ontario have shown that insects exposed to repeated periods of cold will trade reproduction for immediate survival.


Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil

Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have extracted organically preserved muscle tissue from an 18 million years old salamander fossil. The discovery by researchers from University College Dublin, the UK and Spain, ...


Orphan army ants join nearby colonies

Orphan army ants join nearby colonies

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Colonies of army ants, whose long columns and marauding habits are the stuff of natural-history legend, are usually antagonistic to each other, attacking soldiers from rival colonies in border ...


Why do animals, especially males, have so many different colors?

Why do animals, especially males, have so many different colors?

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In new research, UCLA scientists claim that "secondary sexual traits" like coloring may let animals know which species to avoid fighting.


Culture, not just genes, can drive evolutionary outcomes

Genes drive behaviour, but culture can select genes: study

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Culture, not just genes, can drive evolutionary outcomes, according to a study released Wednesday that compares individualist and group-oriented societies across the globe.


'Culture of we' buffers genetic tendency to depression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 14

A genetic tendency to depression is much less likely to be realized in a culture centered on collectivistic rather than individualistic values, according to a new Northwestern University study.


Male Australian redback spiders employ courtship strategies to preserve their life

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows that male suitors of a female cannibalistic spider risk facing a premature death unless they perform an adequate courtship lasting a minimum of 100 minutes. Further, the research shows ...


It takes 2 to tutor a sparrow

It takes two to tutor a sparrow

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- It may take a village to raise a child, and apparently it takes at least two adult birds to teach a young song sparrow how and what to sing.


Scientists ID fossil bones of smallest dinosaur

Scientists find fossil bones of smallest dinosaur

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new dinosaur species, Fruitadens haagarorum, is the smallest dinosaur ever discovered from North America. The tiny Fruitadens weighed less than a kilogram (two pounds) and was just 70 c ...


New type of flying reptile discovered

'Missing link' pterosaur found in China

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international group of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) have identified a new type of flying reptile - providing the first ...


Worker termite

Termites travel with fungi as take-away food

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Fungi travelled to Madagascar in the intestines of termites. Fungus serves as a source of food and helps in cellulose conversion.


Girardinus falcatus

Symmetrical brains can be an advantage

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many studies have found widespread asymmetry in the brains of different species, including humans, and most have assumed asymmetry is advantageous. A new paper, published in the Proceedings of ...


Small mammals have a 'Celtic fringe' too

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

The origin of the 'Celtic fringe' of genetically and culturally distinctive people in the northern and western British Isles is the source of fierce academic controversy.