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Fruit flies use alcohol as a drug to kill parasites

Fruit flies infected with a blood-borne parasite consume alcohol to self-medicate, a behavior that greatly increases their survival rate, an Emory University study finds.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

This beetle uses eggs as shields against wasps

(PhysOrg.com) -- New University of Arizona research has discovered that seed beetles from the desert Southwest shelter their broods from attacking parasitic wasps under a stack of dummy eggs.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Making blood-sucking deadly for mosquitoes

Inhibiting a molecular process cells use to direct proteins to their proper destinations causes more than 90 percent of affected mosquitoes to die within 48 hours of blood feeding, a UA team of biochemists ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New research proves parrot chicks learn their names from parents

In a bit of interesting research whose missions was to find out if green-rumped parrots learn the calls that are used by themselves and others to identify them in their flock, or if such calls are innate, and others learn ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

New species of lizard created in lab that reproduces by cloning itself

(PhysOrg.com) -- A genetics research group working in a lab in Kansas, has succeeded in creating a new species of lizard by mating two distinct species of North American Whiptails, both native to New Mexico. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 27 | with audio podcast report

Study shows how mosquitoes handle the heat of a hot blood meal

Mosquitoes make proteins to help them handle the stressful spike in body temperature that's prompted by their hot blood meals, a new study has found.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Elephant bird probably wiped out by nest raiders and habitat loss

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sir David Attenborough has returned to the island of Madagascar to discover the fate of the elephant bird, the largest bird ever to live on Earth, and to make a BBC documentary about it: "Attenborough ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Blood group may affect woman's fertility

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in the US have for the first time demonstrated that having type O blood may have a negative effect on fertility through a lower egg count and poor egg quality. Women with type A blood appeared ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

In vitro UK pioneer Edwards wins medicine Nobel (Update 4)

The Nobel Prize in medicine went to a man whose work led to the first test tube baby, an achievement that helped bring 4 million infants into the world and raised challenging new questions about human reproduction.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Researchers build 'artificial ovary' to develop oocytes into mature human eggs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital have invented the first artificial human ovary, an advance that provides a potentially powerful new means for conducting fertility ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scientists watch evolution in action

(PhysOrg.com) -- The yellow-bellied three-toed skink (Saiphos equalis) is one of only three reptiles known to have different methods of reproduction in different places. In the coastal areas of New South ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 06, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Robot with frog egg smell sensor (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Tokyo have invented a novel means of improving a robot's sense of smell, by using inexpensive olfactory sensors containing frog eggs.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 26, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Researchers apply computing power to crack egg shell problem

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of Sheffield have applied computing power to crack a problem in egg shell formation. The work may also give a partial answer to ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 09, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Sauropods in Argentina kept their eggs warm near geothermal vents

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working in Argentina have found 100-million-year-old neosauropod nesting sites in which clutches of eggs were kept warm by geothermal vents.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Scientists reveal cracks in egg theory

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Cambridge have found cracks in the long-standing theory that the number of eggs animals have -- and the size of those eggs -- is related to how much parental care they invest ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast