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Technology tracks birds visiting feeders

To study bird feeding and breeding behavior, ornithologists used to tag birds with colored bands and then painstakingly track the birds' activity. But now, an existing technology repurposed for tracking birds ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Environmentalists get rare look at island off NY

(AP) -- The classified ad might read: "Island for sale. Gem of a property, teeming with fish and wildlife, only a two-hour drive from nation's largest metro area. Features power plant, sewage treatment. Ripe ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Coastal birds carry toxic ocean metals inland

A collaborative research team led by Queen's University biologists has found that potent metals like mercury and lead, ingested by Arctic seabirds feeding in the ocean, end up in the sediment of polar ponds.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover biological basis of 'bacterial immune system'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria don’t have easy lives. In addition to mammalian immune systems that besiege the bugs, they have natural enemies called bacteriophages, viruses that kill half the bacteria on Earth every two days.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Researchers discover biological basis of 'bacterial immune system'

Bacteria don't have easy lives. In addition to mammalian immune systems that besiege the bugs, they have natural enemies called bacteriophages, viruses that kill half the bacteria on Earth every two days.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Students create portable device to detect suicide bombers (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the weapons of suicide bombers, are a major cause of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. A group of University of Michigan engineering undergraduate students have ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers discover mechanism that explains how cancer enzyme winds up on ends of chromosomes

Human cancer cells divide and conquer. Unless physicians can control that division with surgery, chemotherapy or radiation, the wildly dividing cells will eventually destroy a person's life.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0


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