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Clownfish provide clues to animal conflicts

Clownfish provide clues to animal conflicts

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Animal societies are hotbeds of conflict and cooperation, with creatures helping each other one moment and fighting the next. Biologist Andrew Zink has developed a new theoretical framework ...





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Comcast bid for NBC Universal could be sealed next week: source

Technology / Business

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Comcast's bid to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal from General Electric could be sealed next week if GE reaches an agreement with Vivendi, a source close to the matter said Wednesday.


Evolution of human sex roles more complex than described by universal theory

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 6

A new study challenges long-standing expectations that men are promiscuous and women tend to be more particular when it comes to choosing a mate. The research, published by Cell Press in the April issue of the journal Trends in ...


Physicists Observe Universal State

Physicists Observe Universal State

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 19, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (56) | comments 0

A team of Australian and Chinese scientists have found the first observed evidence for "universality" in a paper to be published in the prestigious Nature Physics journal next month.


GE, Vivendi talks over NBC Universal stretch on (AP)

GE, Vivendi talks over NBC Universal stretch on

Technology / Business

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A deal for Comcast Corp. to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal and create one of the most powerful media companies in the world is taking longer than expected as the current owners tussle over ...


Stem cells which 'fool immune system' may provide vaccination for cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists from the United States and China have revealed the potential for human stem cells to provide a vaccination against colon cancer, reports a study published in Stem Cells.


Antioxidants are unlikely to prevent aging, study suggests

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 3

Diets and beauty products which claim to have anti-oxidant properties are unlikely to prevent ageing, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. Researchers at the Institute of Healthy Ageing at UCL (University College ...


Theory provides more precise estimates of large-area biodiversity

Theory provides more precise estimates of large-area biodiversity

Biology / Ecology

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

Ask biologists how many species live in a pond, a grassland, a mountain range or on the entire planet, and the answers get increasingly vague. Hence the wide range of estimates for the planet's biodiversity, ...


Physicists offer foundation for uprooting a hallowed principle of physics

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 30

Physicists at Indiana University have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of Einstein's theory of relativity known as "Lorentz invariance." If confirmed, the abnormality ...


Scientists make first step towards 'holy grail' of crystallography

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created Jan 09, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique for crystallising proteins, a discovery which could help speed up the development of new medicines and treatments.


Three of a kind

Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essence

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- On the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies ...



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