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Anthropologist Says Tree Climbing Abilities of Early Hominins Decreased Rapidly in Evolutionary Process

Jeremy M. DeSilva an anthropologist at Worcester University in Massachusetts has published "Functional Morphology of the Ankle and the Likelihood of Climbing in Early Hominins," in the peer-reviewed journal, ...

Biology / Evolution

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A battle of the vampires, 20 million years ago?

(PhysOrg.com) -- They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows that “bat flies” have ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Leaping lizards, dinosaurs have a message for robots: Get a tail

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers including undergraduate and graduate students studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble, ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Researchers deconstruct the physics of writing with a fountain pen

Wetting a fountain pen to compose a thank-you note is a grand way to express gratitude for a holiday gift, yet we often don’t give a thought to what happens when ink moves from pen to paper. But for a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (17) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Protecting UA telescopes during the winter cold

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as property owners are working to protect pipes from bursting during the winter cold, a UA team is working to protect telescope observatories.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Wildlife researchers want your old socks

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of California wildlife research team working in the Sierra Nevada is asking the public to donate clean, gently used socks for research on a rare weasel called the Pacific fisher.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Discovering Autism: Homing in on the right label

When autism researchers arrived at Norristown State Hospital near Philadelphia a few years ago, they found a 63-year-old man who rambled on about Elvis Presley, compulsively rocked in his chair and patted the corridor walls.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

140 new species described by California Academy of Sciences in 2011

In 2011, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 140 new relatives to our family tree. The new species include 72 arthropods, 31 sea slugs, 13 fishes, 11 plants, nine sponges, three corals, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chinese panda loan to France kept top secret

As world leaders held frenzied talks to try to save the crisis-hit eurozone in the south of France earlier this month, the fate of two giant pandas destined for a French zoo hung in the balance.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wandering wolf inspires hope and dread

(AP) -- A young wolf from Oregon has become a media celebrity while looking for love, tracing a zigzag path that has carried him hundreds of miles nearly to California, while his alpha male sire and a sibling ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

AAOS issues new clinical practice guideline for treating common elbow fractures in children

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Board of Directors has recently approved and released an evidence-based clinical practice guideline (CPG) on "The Treatment of Supracondylar Humerus Fractures."

Medicine & Health / Other

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