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Fossil cricket: Jurassic love song reconstructed

Some 165 million years ago, the world was host to a diversity of sounds. Primitive bushcrickets and croaking amphibians were among the first animals to produce loud sounds by stridulation (rubbing certain ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Orangutans at Miami zoo use iPads to communicate

(AP) -- The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family's teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan's elders show no interest.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Hand study reveals brain's distorted body model

Our brains contain a highly distorted model of our own bodies, according to new research by scientists at UCL (University College London). A study published today, which focussed on the brain's representation ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Biodegradable synthetic resin replaces vital body parts

Researchers at the University of Twente (UT) have developed a new type of resin that can be broken down by the body. This new resin makes it possible to replicate important body parts exactly and make them ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 6

Whisker stimulation prevents strokes in rats, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Talk about surviving by a whisker. The most common type of stroke can be completely prevented in rats by stimulating a single whisker, according to a new study by UC Irvine researchers.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

'Beauty' injections can turn ugly: NY health officials

New Yorkers looking for a quick beauty fix risk death from unlicensed practitioners offering oil injections to enhance prized body parts, health authorities warned Friday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

How can the salamander help fight degenerative disease?

Ever asked yourself why some animals can regenerate lost body parts, yet we can't grow back a limb? A new Australian research collaboration is offering a chance to solve this puzzle in the fight to cure degenerative ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Germany's terminally-ill 'Dr. Death' to put own body on show

The German anatomist dubbed "Doctor Death", who has turned stomachs worldwide preserving and displaying dead bodies, said Wednesday he is terminally ill and plans to exhibit his own corpse.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Knobbly kneed ID: Internal body parts and biometrics

Forget LED thumb-pad identification devices, complex retinal laser scanning, or even computerized iris recognition, the way forward for biometric validation is a quick X-ray snapshot of a person's knees, according to a report ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0