News tagged with convergence
S. Korea's SK Telecom signs deal to buy Hynix
South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom said Monday it signed a deal to buy a controlling stake in Hynix Semiconductor, the world's number two memory chip maker.
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Butterfly study sheds light on convergent evolution
For 150 years scientists have been trying to explain convergent evolution. One of the best-known examples of this is how poisonous butterflies from different species evolve to mimic each other's color patterns – in effect ...
Jul 21, 2011 |
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Content needs self-regulation
A new report by UNSW’s Journalism and Media Research Centre argues that Australia’s media content regulation system is broken and that it is time for a full review to manage content in the 21st century.
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May 06, 2011 |
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Plants and caterpillars make the same cyanide
(PhysOrg.com) -- With an amazing example of convergent evolution, Niels Bjerg Jensen of the University of Copenhagen published a report in Nature Communications discussing the bird's-foot trefoil plant and th ...
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Meet a thorny devil through the Map of Life
A new website that explains why humans have the same type of eye as an octopus, and how animals separated by millions of years have evolved in the same way, has been launched by a team of scientists at Cambridge ...
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Parasite and bacterium illustrate convergent evolution: Both hijack cells' 'post office'
The protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii and the pathogenic bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis exemplify convergent evolution, the development of a similar biological trait in unrelated lineages, according to research presen ...
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Convergent evolution in lignin biosynthesis: Tools for re-engineering biomass composition
Lignin is the double-edged sword of biofuels: if you are making cellulosic ethanol, you want less lignin because it blocks the breakdown of cellulose. If you are using pyrolytic methods, you want more lignin ...
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Even singers in the bird world have to deal with cover artists
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two competing species of Amazonian birds use the same songs to communicate with each other, Oxford University scientists have found, the first evidence that convergent evolution can arise ...
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward
The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 01, 2009 |
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