The female cane toad can pump herself up to mega-size to throw off smaller males striving to mate with her, Australian biologists reported on Wednesday.

Biology - Plants & Animals

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(AP) -- Skype's voice and video calling technology will be embedded in upcoming high-definition televisions with Internet capabilities.

Technology - Internet

Jan 05, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists who compare insect chirps with ape calls may look like they are mixing aphids and orangutans, but researchers have found common denominators in the calls of hundreds of species of insects, birds, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 05, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

A new computerised device that tracks portion size and how fast people eat is more successful in helping obese children and adolescents lose weight than standard treatments, according to research published on bmj.com today.

Medicine & Health - Health

Jan 05, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Only about 8 percent of high school students get enough sleep on an average school night, a large new study finds. The others are living with borderline-to-serious sleep deficits that could lead to daytime drowsiness, depression, ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Jan 05, 2010 4.5 / 5 (13) 1

(AP) -- Google Inc. began selling its own mobile phone Tuesday, a much-anticipated move aimed at protecting its online advertising empire as people increasingly surf the Web on handsets instead of personal ...

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Jan 05, 2010 3 / 5 (6) 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have developed tests which could revolutionise the detection of clostridium difficile and help cut the number of deaths in hospital wards from ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jan 05, 2010 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been the common perception that once modern humans appeared more than 50,000 years ago, little has changed in human biology.

Biology - Evolution

Jan 05, 2010 4.4 / 5 (14) 5 |

There is no evidence to support psychological debriefing in schools after traumatic events such as violence, suicides and accidental death, which runs counter to current practice in some Canadian school jurisdictions, according ...

Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry

Jan 05, 2010 3 / 5 (2) 1

University of Glasgow experts have provided the first empirical demonstration of the benefits of ‘masquerading’ as distinct from simply avoiding detection.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 05, 2010 4.4 / 5 (5) 0 |

Ecosystems of terminus lakes around the world could benefit from a new system being developed at the University of Nevada, Reno to desalinate water using a specialized low-cost solar pond and patented membrane ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Jan 05, 2010 3.9 / 5 (8) 2 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lasers have the potential to improve and revolutionize human lives in many ways, from consumer electronics and communications to medical equipment and homeland security. Helping unlock the ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Jan 05, 2010 3 / 5 (4) 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In two new videos from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft, bright flashes of light known as sun glints act as beacons signaling large bodies of water on Earth. These observations give scientists ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jan 05, 2010 4.9 / 5 (9) 1 |

Young women with a weight problem often say the weight started creeping up when they had their first child and they found they had less time to exercise. However, when researchers added up all factors, they found that the ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Jan 05, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jan 05, 2010 4.8 / 5 (13) 1 |