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Research shows that animals need time to survive
To understand how climate change may affect species survival, we need to understand how climate influences their time-keeping.
New Location Found For Regulation Of RNA Fate
Thousands of scientists and hundreds of software programmers studying the process by which RNA inside cells normally degrades may soon broaden their focus significantly. Researchers have discovered that the RNA...
Bacteria Pack Their Own Demise
Numerous pathogens contain an 'internal time bomb', a deadly mechanism that can be used against them. Scientists were able to determine the structure and operating mechanism of the proteins involved....
Detente on The Ocean Leads to New Hope for Fisheries
Marine ecologist Boris Worm and fisheries scientist Ray Hilborn go from rivals to friends and team on a global study that shows fisheries management is the key to saving global...
Caught on Video: Immune Cell Destroys Bacteria
In a first, scientists capture in video immune cells consuming bacteria in a living organism.
Gene transcribing machine takes halting, backsliding trip along the DNA
The body's nanomachines that read our genes don't run as smoothly as previously thought, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists...
MIT team targets ovarian cancer with nanoparticles
Tiny particles carrying a killer gene can effectively suppress ovarian tumour growth in mice, according to a team of researchers from MIT and the Lankenau Institute...
Discovery of a mechanism controlling the fate of hematopoietic stem cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hematopoietic stem cells are capable of manufacturing all types of blood cells. But which factors influence the production of a specific type of cell? Until now, it was...
New test for safer biomedical research results
In cancer research, as in most other biomedical sciences, they are playing a key role: living cells, kept in sterile plastic containers with red culture media populating incubators in laboratories...
Bent innards give orchid its kick
A flower mechanism for smacking pollen onto bees opens up diverse possibilities for floral architecture
BALD BIRD PICTURE: New Songbird Sports Wispy "Mohawk"
Despite the slight mohawk, the bare-faced bulbul is the first known bald songbird in mainland Asia, conservationists say.
Songbird species found in Laos
A new species of bird with a featherless pink face has been discovered and photographed in a remote part of Southeast Asia.
Human language and dolphin movement patterns show similarities in brevity
Two researchers from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom have shown for the first time that the law of brevity in...
Website to record every species on Earth
Coming soon to a screen near you: The Encyclopedia of Life – a user-generated database of all living things
Rare snake brought back to heaths
A rare species of snake is to be reintroduced in Devon by conservationists and the RSPB after an absence of 50 years.
Proud namesakes
To have a species named after you is one of the greatest compliments in science. But what if the organism in question is a pungent and diminutive penis-shaped fungus?
Scientists to unlock Great Barrier Reef genome
Australian scientists on Thursday announced a ground-breaking genome-mapping project that could help the Great Barrier Reef fight off the twin threats of climate change and toxic farm chemicals.
Instant insight: Holography speaks volumes
Søren Hvilsted and colleagues explain how holograms could be the key to storing increasing amounts of information
Important Insight Into Apoptosis Or Programmed Cell Death
Researchers have gained a better understanding of the process that cells go through when they die. This process known as "apoptosis" or programmed cell death, is a normal process in...
Study Catches Two Bird Populations As They Split Into Separate Species
A new study finds that a change in a single gene has sent two closely related bird populations on their way to becoming two distinct species. The study is one...
Synchronized Swimming Of Algae
Using high-speed cinematography, scientists have discovered that individual algal cells can regulate the beating of their flagella in and out of synchrony in a manner that controls their swimming trajectories.
Adult Brain Can Change Within Seconds
The human brain can adapt to changing demands even in adulthood, but neuroscientists have now found evidence of it changing with unsuspected speed. Their findings suggest that the brain has...
GIANT JELLYFISH PICTURES: Japan's Nomura Invasion
Jellyfish that can grow up to 6.5 feet wide and weigh 440 pounds are poised to invade Japan. They are Nomura's jellyfish, and scientists and fishers who recall the last major inundation...
Calif. marsh returns to life after century
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., July 29 (UPI) -- Native plant life is growing in a wetland reclamation near Los Angeles that organizers say they hope will also attract invertebrates, rare...
Little Creatures Can Stir Big Oceans
The motions of jellyfish and other swimmers act like a blender in the sea
San Diego Zoo says giant panda Bai Yun is pregnant
San Diego Zoo officials say their prized giant panda is pregnant again. Seventeen-year-old Bai Yun already is a mother of four.
Nanotubes May Reach A Meter Long With New Technique
Scientists have developed a method for making "odako," bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes named for the traditional Japanese kites they resemble. It may lead to a way to produce meter-long...
If a Mosquito Bites Me after I’ve Had a Beer, Can It Get Drunk?
Shockingly, no major studies have been conducted on this topic. “The implications are, however, profound,” says Michael Raupp, an entomologist at the University of Maryland. “Reckless flying, passing out in frosty beer mugs,...