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How house-hunting ants choose the best home

(PhysOrg.com) -- Direct comparison of alternatives isn’t always the best way to make a decision - at least if you’re an ant. House-hunting rock ants collectively manage to choose the best nest-site without ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Trial by fire: A landscape-scale experiment in restoring Ozark glades

A giant experiment is under way at the Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis' 2,000-acre outdoor laboratory for ecosystem studies.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New boulder frog discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered two new species of boulder-dwelling frogs, hidden in remote areas of rainforest in north-east Queensland.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ants give new evidence for interaction networks

Be it through the Internet, Facebook, the local grapevine or the spread of disease, interaction networks influence nearly every part of our lives.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Evolution of human 'super-brain' tied to development of bipedalism, tool-making

Scientists seeking to understand the origin of the human mind may want to look to honeybees -- not ancestral apes -- for at least some of the answers, according to a University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Beetle explorers name new species for Roosevelt

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of a rugged darkling beetle that thrives in an arid region of the Chihuahuan Desert is being named in honor of Theodore Roosevelt on the 100th anniversary of a speech he gave ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Fallout: New Vegas' ups the ante with downloads

Bethesda Softworks is building on the rock star debut of "Fallout: New Vegas" with the December release of a new chapter of the epic videogame exclusively for play on Xbox 360 consoles.

Technology / Software

created Nov 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Cleaning up polluting contaminants takes longer than thought: researcher

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Iowa State University researcher has discovered why theories and timetables established to predict how long it takes for a contaminated site to be free of pollution are overly optimistic.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Bigfoot of ants' found (again)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stop the presses: Bigfoot was spotted in Cary! It's probably not the Bigfoot you know, that 8-foot-tall beast also known as Sasquatch. Instead, it's the Bigfoot of ants, a species of ant so ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Dracula fish, bald bird among strange new species

Dracula fish, a bald songbird and a seven-metre (23 feet) tall carnivorous plant are among several unusual new species found in the Greater Mekong region last year, researchers said Wednesday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Insect research gives humans six legs up

(PhysOrg.com) -- You could say that Bert Hölldobler's career began during a childhood walk in the Bavarian woods with his father. The elder Holldobler turned over a rock out in the forest, exposing a colony ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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