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The tulip entered Europe through al-Andalus five centuries before believed

The tulip entered Europe through al-Andalus five centuries before believed

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new study carried out at the University of Cordoba and the School of Arabic Studies provides information on the arrival of the flower to Europe. Contrary to what was thought up until now, the first bulbs ...





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Bees attracted by floral iridescence

Bees attracted by floral iridescence

Biology /

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plants and their pollinators are the focus of ground-breaking research by Dr Heather Whitney, recently appointed Lloyds Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences. Her latest work, carried ...


The crash of 2008: A mathematician's view

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (62) | comments 29

Markets need regulation to stay stable. We have had thirty years of financial deregulation. Now we are seeing chickens coming home to roost. This is the key argument of Professor Nick Bingham, a mathematician at Imperial ...


Danger lurks underground for oak seedlings

Danger lurks underground for oak seedlings

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists trying to understand why oaks are starting to disappear from North American forests may need to look just below the surface to find some answers.


Comparing Chimp, Human DNA

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 12, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Most of the big differences between human and chimpanzee DNA lie in regions that do not code for genes, according to a new study. Instead, they may contain DNA sequences that control how gene-coding regions are activated ...


Rhododendron expansion may increase the chance of landslides on Southern Appalachian slopes

Rhododendron expansion may increase the chance of landslides on Southern Appalachian slopes

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Research by U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and partners suggests that the expansion of rosebay rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum) in Southern Appalachian mountain hollows may in ...


Surviving the revolution, easier than withstanding human use and abuse

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created Aug 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Inwood Hill Park survived the drastic modifications of Revolutionary War patriots, but preserving this last bastion of large-growth, mature trees in New York City is difficult with the proliferation of invasive species and ...


Archaeologists discover gold processing center

Archaeologists discover gold processing center

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 19, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Archaeologists from the University of Chicago have discovered a gold processing center along the middle Nile, an installation that produced the precious metal sometime between 2000 and 1500 B.C. The center, ...


Tulips On The Moon

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created Jun 29, 2005 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Bernard Foing, Chief Scientist at the European Space Agency, is also Project Scientist for SMART-1, a spacecraft now orbiting the Moon. SMART-1 is currently mapping the lunar surface topography and mineralogy, and scientists ...


Crossing the icy unknown, hunting climate clues (AP)

Crossing the icy unknown, hunting climate clues

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 0

(AP) -- On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'd never heard in two decades on the ice.



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