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'Mum! I'm hungry!' Hungry chicks have unique calls to their parents

It can be hard to get noticed when you're a little chick in a big colony, but new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology reveals that baby birds in need of a feed have individual ways of let ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Songbirds' elaborate cries for food show first signs of vocal learning

(PhysOrg.com) -- Only a handful of social animals -- songbirds, some marine mammals, some bats and humans -- learn to actively style their vocal communications. Babies, for instance, start by babbling, their first chance ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Zynga's chief operating officer plays it safe

As a hurricane barreled toward the Florida Keys, John Schappert, the chief operating officer of Zynga Inc., was on a charter boat to catch lobsters with half a dozen friends.

Technology / Business

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chernobyl radiation fells female birds, making chirping more frequent from lonely bachelors

Birdsong is one of the joys of nature, but higher percentages of birds chirping near Chernobyl are a perverse indication of radiation contamination, according to a new study.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers discover new layer of genetic information that helps determine how fast proteins are produced

A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) thanks to a technique developed ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Skrei fever hits Norway as Arctic cod spawn

Grabbing a cod head, Alexander Leirvold expertly threads it onto a long spike on a wooden pole before cutting out the pearly-white tongue, considered a culinary delicacy.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: A powerful member of congress can have a negative effect on a state's economy

Having a powerful member of congress could have unintended consequences for a state's economy, according to a study published today in the Journal of Political Economy.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

User privacy key as Facebook goes public

Respect for privacy and the personal data of of its hundreds of millions of users is going to be an even greater concern for Facebook as the booming social network prepares to list on Wall Street.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New class of planetary systems: Astronomers find two new planets orbiting double suns

Using data from NASA’s Kepler Mission, astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting “circumbinary” planet systems -- planets that orbit two stars. This work establishes that such ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Little galaxies are big on dark matter

Dark matter... It came into existence at the moment of the Big Bang. Within its confines, galaxies formed and evolved. If you add up all the parts contained within any given galaxy you derive its mass, yet ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 24

Scientists take fresh look at 'faster-than-light' experiment

Scientists who threw down the gauntlet to physics by reporting particles that broke the Universe's speed limit said on Friday they were revisiting their contested experiment.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 146

Jury still out on whether the Arctic ozone hole is an exception

Last winter, an unprecedented ozone hole appeared above the Arctic, five times the size of Germany. For ETH-Zurich professor Thomas Peter, the recently published study comes as no surprise. But it does raise ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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