(Phys.org) —A team of marine biologists has found that some starfish lose a leg when faced with too-warm environmental conditions. In their paper published in The Journal of Experimental Biology, the researchers describe ...
Evolutionary biologists and computer scientists have come together study the evolution of pop music. Their analysis of 17,000 songs from the US Billboard Hot 100 charts, 1960 to 2010, is the most substantial scientific study ...
Computer Sciences
May 5, 2015
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If you look different to your close relatives, you may have felt separate from your family. As a child, during particularly stormy fall outs you might have even hoped it was a sign that you were adopted.
Evolution
Jun 24, 2022
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A multi-institutional team of oceanographers and marine biologists has found evidence showing that some deep-sea species of anglerfish spend their entire lives swimming upside down. In their paper published in the Journal ...
Happy Darwin Day! Is that even an appropriate thing to wish somebody? Especially so close to Valentine's day?
Evolution
Feb 12, 2014
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Many scholars of Renaissance art tell us that Botticelli's Birth of Venus captures the tension between the celestial perfection of divine beauty and its flawed earthly manifestation. As classical ideas blossomed anew in 15th-century ...
Social Sciences
Mar 6, 2015
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Dogs and wolves are genetically so similar, it's been difficult for biologists to understand why wolves remain fiercely wild, while dogs can gladly become "man's best friend." Now, doctoral research by evolutionary biologist ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2013
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Killer whales are suspected to be behind the disappearance of great white sharks off Cape Town's coast over the last few years, according to a report published by South Africa's government on Tuesday.
Plants & Animals
Nov 17, 2020
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Scientists are a step closer to breeding plants with genes from only one parent. New research led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, published Nov. 19 in Science Advances, shows the underlying mechanism ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 19, 2021
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Biologists quote Lewis Carroll when arguing that survival is a constant struggle to adapt and evolve. Is that true, or do groups die out because they experience a run of bad luck? Charles Marshall and Tiago Quental of UC ...
Evolution
Jun 20, 2013
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