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The koala faces starvation as the nutritional quality of eucalyptus leaves declines, the report says

Koalas, penguins at risk of extinction: study

Biology / Ecology

created 23 hours ago | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Climate change threatens the survival of dozens of animal species from the emperor penguin to Australian koalas, according to a report released Monday at the UN climate summit.


Flies like us: They can act like addicts, too

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When given the chance to consume alcohol at will, fruit flies behave in ways that look an awful lot like human alcoholism. That's according to a study published online on December 10th in Current Biology that is one of the ...


77 percent of European pigs are castrated without anesthetic

77 percent of European pigs are castrated without anesthetic

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The castration of pigs prevents the "boar taint" smell in the meat and allows them to contain more fat. However in practice this can be very different. Now, for the first time, a scientific team has collected ...


Why King Kong failed to impress

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Humans have the same receptors for detecting odors related to sex as do other apes and primates. But each species uses them in different ways, stemming from the way the genes for these receptors have evolved over time, according ...


Munich lab demonstrates diesel truck engine with barely measurable emissions

German researchers demonstrate diesel truck engine with barely measurable emissions

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Just three months after the Euro 5 Norm for exhaust emissions went into force for all new car models, researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM, Germany) have demonstrated an engine that is ...


A brown shrike

In Taiwan, bird catchers turn bird watchers

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When Yeh You-chin was a boy half a century ago, he ate migratory birds with relish, but now he is at the forefront of efforts to preserve the feathered visitors to his south Taiwan home.


Kindle DX

Will 2010 be the breakout year for e-book readers?

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 5

When Sheila Effan found a Kindle electronic reader among her gifts last Christmas, one of her first thoughts was whether she would miss the smell and feel of real paper. She got her answer five months later.


'Smell of old books' offers clues to help preserve them

'Smell of old books' offers clues to help preserve them

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists may not be able to tell a good book by its cover, but they now can tell the condition of an old book by its smell. In a report in ACS' Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal, they describe develo ...


Male and female shopping strategies show evolution at work in the mall

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Male and female shopping styles are in our genes---and we can look to evolution for the reason. Daniel Kruger, research faculty at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, says it's perfectly natural that men often ...


New source discovered for the generation of nerve cells in the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The research group of Professor Magdalena Gotz of Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich (Germany) has made a significant advance in understanding regeneration processes in the brain. The researchers ...



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