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A UNSW Sydney scientist explains some of the psychological processes that influence our decision making around home insurance and climate change. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-decisions-home-climate.html Social Sciences Mon, 25 Sep 2023 14:43:04 EDT news614871781 When winter comes, populations of red-neck phalarope from the Western Palearctic migrate to two different destinations -the Pacific Ocean or the Arabian Sea- following an exceptional migratory divide strategy which has never been described in this geographical area. https://phys.org/news/2019-04-red-neck-phalarope-migratory-pacific-ocean.html Ecology Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:12:36 EDT news475492348 What do captive flamingos do at night, when their zoo or wildlife park is closed? https://phys.org/news/2018-09-reveals-night-time-habits-captive-flamingos.html Plants & Animals Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:30:02 EDT news455536800 Yawning, sighing and stretching are just three behaviours observed in donkeys that have been evaluated in newly published research led by academics from the University of Bristol's School of Veterinary Sciences and funded by global equine welfare charity the Brooke. https://phys.org/news/2014-08-donkey.html Plants & Animals Tue, 19 Aug 2014 06:10:06 EDT news327646506 Antivirus software running on your computer has one big weak point - if a new virus is released before the antivirus provider knows about it or before the next scheduled antivirus software update, your system can be infected. Such zero-day infections are common. https://phys.org/news/2013-08-malware.html Security Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:19:07 EDT news295780733 Imagine you're on a spaceship with engine trouble. Your captain knows she must land the ship for repairs. The navigator identifies two viable planets that could do the job. Little is known of either, other than the Lamonians inhabit one, and the Grataks the other. https://phys.org/news/2013-07-anne-alex-bob-aboutyou.html Other Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:10:02 EDT news293437485 Researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona are the first to have studied the effects of a heatwave on the genetic make-up of a species. The researchers have been monitoring the evolution of the fly Drosophila subobscura for 37 years, and they have observed that the European heatwave of spring 2011 caused dramatic alterations in the genetic make-up of its populations, due to a rapid proliferation of genotypes that were more tolerant of high temperatures. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-evidence-genome-temperature.html Biotechnology Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:40:49 EDT news289665636 Researchers have discovered a social chromosome in the highly invasive fire ant that helps to explain why some colonies allow for more than one queen ant, and could offer new solutions for dealing with this pest. https://phys.org/news/2013-01-team-social-chromosome-red-ant.html Biotechnology Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:00:01 EST news277561379 Billy Ocean may not have been thinking of fish when he wrote "The Color of Love", but Sophie Hutter, Attila Hettyey, Dustin Penn, and Sarah Zala from the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna were able to show that zebrafish males and females both wear their brightest colors while wooing a mate. https://phys.org/news/2012-11-colour-zebrafish-courtship.html Plants & Animals Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:44:02 EST news273490992 (Phys.org)—In the south Aegean Sea, the islands of Santorini have been showing signs of unrest for the first time in over half a century. Satellite data confirm that the islands have risen as much as 14 cm since January 2011.  https://phys.org/news/2012-09-satellite-santorini-growth.html Earth Sciences Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:10:01 EDT news266569068 If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then it shouldn't be surprising that their neural circuits differ. In research published today in the journal Current Biology, researchers have used dramatic changes in the behaviour of the female fruit fly after sex to help map these often very different circuits. https://phys.org/news/2012-05-post-coital-behaviors-female-fruit-mind.html Plants & Animals Thu, 31 May 2012 12:00:01 EDT news257682157 Scientists have taken an important step forward in developing a new material using nano-sized magnets that could ultimately lead to new types of electronic devices, with greater capacity than is currently feasible, in a study published today in the journal Science. https://phys.org/news/2012-03-honeycombs-magnets.html General Physics Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:05:27 EDT news252331511 Tropical carpenter ants (Camponotus leonardi) live high up in the rainforest canopy. When infected by a parasitic fungus (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis) the behaviour of the ants is dramatically changed. They become erratic and zombie-like, and are manipulated by the fungus into dying at a spot that provides optimal conditions for fungal reproduction. New research, published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology, looks at altered behaviour patterns in Zombie ants in Thailand and shows how the fungus manipulates ant behaviour. https://phys.org/news/2011-05-zombie-ants-fungus-brain.html Plants & Animals Mon, 09 May 2011 03:36:56 EDT news224130930 Research into the long calls of male Orangutans in Borneo has given scientists new insight into how these solitary apes communicate through dense jungle. An acoustic analysis of the calls, published today in Ethology, reveals that the calls not only serve to attract females, but also contain information on the identity and the context of the caller. https://phys.org/news/2010-03-decoding-orangutan.html Plants & Animals Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:45:17 EST news187386280 In a deadly game of heads or tails venomous sea snakes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans deceive their predators into believing they have two heads, claims research published today in Marine Ecology. https://phys.org/news/2009-08-venomous-sea-snakes-tails-predators.html Ecology Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:03:59 EDT news168764583 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are investigating whether or not noise generated by the oil and gas industry might affect the day-to-day behaviour of sperm whales. https://phys.org/news/2009-05-analysing-effects-underwater-noise-sperm.html Ecology Thu, 07 May 2009 17:02:55 EDT news160934516