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Higgs boson-like particle discovery is missing one more link
Posted Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:32:11 GMT by Dave ArmstrongCERN scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider may have seen the missing Higgs boson or 'god particle'.
Higgs boson-like particle discovery is missing one more link
Who are the most successful primates? - well, us, just!
Posted Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:59:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongA study of the rhesus macaque and primate genetic diversity. The diversity of primates is legion, but within each species is a diversity that has enabled them to conquer continents, forest, scrub and mountain environments.
Who are the most successful primates? - well, us, just!
What dolphin genes show us about convergent intelligence
Posted Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:33:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongA new research study on the the molecular landscape of brain evolution and cognition of dolphins has been published today.
What dolphin genes show us about convergent intelligence
Human ancestors had teeth chemistry like giraffes
Posted Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:00:00 GMT by Adrian BishopHuman ancestors two million years ago ate plants, including bark, and had teeth chemistry like giraffes, new research suggests.
Human ancestors had teeth chemistry like giraffes
Macro or mega, it's still ecology
Posted Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:32:10 GMT by Dave ArmstrongA new essay published in PLoS ONE looks at macroecology and sustainability. Humans are constrained by the systems that operate within the planet earth's ecological framework. Ecology has always been a minor partner in human endeavours, but seems to be the crucial one for us now.
Macro or mega, it's still ecology
Elephant pregnancy is unique
Posted Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:01:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongElephant pregnancy lasts for 22 months. At up to 680 days (average 647 days), elephants have the longest gestation period on earth. New research, published in Biological Sciences, investigates.
Elephant pregnancy is unique
Archaea live long and slowly
Posted Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:03:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongT-Rex came and went, then mammals ruled, all the while the single-celled archaeon persisted with its slow growth lifestyle. Distantly related to bacteria, archaea have the slowest growth rate known to date.
Archaea live long and slowly
Super-eruptions may only take hundreds of years to form
Posted Wed, 30 May 2012 21:00:00 GMT by Adrian BishopVolcanic super-eruptions, with the potential to wipe out huge populations, could take just hundreds of years to form rather than the 100,000 previously thought, say American geologists.
Super-eruptions may only take hundreds of years to form
Sex determination in birds
Posted Tue, 29 May 2012 23:01:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongThe ZZW hen is female to start with but develops male characteristics and produces no fertile gametes (eggs OR sperm). Except that is for the ZZW Kentish plover, noted in the study of sex determination in birds.
Sex determination in birds
Earthquakes are always big news - or are they?
Posted Sat, 26 May 2012 11:02:39 GMT by Michael EvansEarthquake prediction is an inexact science and the recent Italian earthquake has highlighted the danger of not taking adequate precautions. An Anglo-Russian satelite programme hopes to be able to use electromagnetic signals as a means of early warning.
Earthquakes are always big news - or are they?
Placentals ruled before the Cretaceous
Posted Thu, 24 May 2012 12:09:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongTheropod dinosaurs ruled the earth then died out in the Cretaceous, leaving the little mammals to diversify. Many genomes are now examinable for signs of diversification in these species' past.
Placentals ruled before the Cretaceous
When dinosaurs ruled the Pampas
Posted Wed, 23 May 2012 10:40:33 GMT by Dave ArmstrongIn Patagonia, which was part of southern Gondwanaland, a very early complete (almost) theropod dinosaur example has been found from the middle of the Jurassic period, 40 million years before any relative.
When dinosaurs ruled the Pampas
Robo-fish uses arti-fish-ial intelligence to find pollution
Posted Tue, 22 May 2012 13:27:20 GMT by Adrian BishopRobotic fish used to find pollution. A four-foot robot fish that uses artificial intelligence to track, find and record water pollution is being tested.
Robo-fish uses arti-fish-ial intelligence to find pollution
Pollination: Flowers are masters of reproduction
Posted Fri, 18 May 2012 15:16:00 GMT by Adrian BishopAmerican university researchers have found how flowers have an efficient way of reproducing, ensuring that fertilisation is successful even if the initial pollen is faulty.
Pollination: Flowers are masters of reproduction
Where, how and what do an ant and a pitcher plant exchange?
Posted Wed, 16 May 2012 10:28:34 GMT by Dave ArmstrongMutual benefits of a relationship between an ant species and pitcher plant; mutualism. Only one of the 120 species of the Nepenthes genus has been found so far to use a single plant - ant species within its tissues to help out.
Where, how and what do an ant and a pitcher plant exchange?
History of a giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus)
Posted Sun, 13 May 2012 15:03:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongEcology of coastal giant salamanders, (Dicamptodon tenebrosus). Research into the genetic structure and history of giant salamander populations in the United States and Canada.
History of a giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus)
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How can you describe the threats existing to species, both large and small? Using the highly-threatened primates, we can perhaps see how they have contrived to exist until the current time. Then we can better understand just how we can prevent factors simply wiping them from the face of the earth, often through ignorance, lack of care, prejudice and of course the universal profit motive. Conservation begins in our minds, but demands much more than that.
What does that blue butterfly do when you are not watching. We still have to discover exactly how the Eurasian large blue exploits Myrmica ants, but many of its relatives are either cuckoos (eg. (Phengaris alcon), or outright predators like the AustralasianLiphyra brassolis larvae ,eating the whole brood of the green ants they live with. How did such diverse habits evolve? Well, start reading here.
For several years, excitement has been building over the Atlantic presence of Manta birostris and Manta cf birostris/ this is the classification system trying to tell us of a potential new species that is related to genus Manta. Little progress has been made on this W. Atlantic species of oceanic manta, but it cant be long before we can confirm new knowledge of parenting and juvenile growth in at least the main species, which seems to live alongside the potential new manta.
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When dolphins are 'rescued' in various countries, the car given seems to be ill-considered. We are simply looking at the success rate which is reported to be low, in most places. They could even end up in commercial aquarium shows, but they certainly rarely make it back to the sea.
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