News tagged with evolutionary transformation

How did flowering plants evolve to dominate Earth?

To Charles Darwin it was an 'abominable mystery' and it is a question which has continued to vex evolutionists to this day: when did flowering plants evolve and how did they come to dominate plant life on earth? Today a study ...

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 1




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Got nectar? To hawkmoths, humidity is a cue

(Phys.org) -- Humidity emanating from a flower's nectar stores tells a moth if the flower is worth a visit, research led by a UA entomologist has discovered.

Biology / Plants & Animals

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The environment and pharmaceuticals and personal care products: What are the big questions?

Researchers at the University of York headed a major international review aimed at enhancing efforts to better understand the impacts of chemicals used in pharmaceuticals or in personal care products, such as cosmetics, soaps, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created 11 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biologists turn back the clock to understand evolution of sex differences

Sex differences account for some of the most of the spectacular traits in nature: the wild colours of male guppies, the plumage of peacocks, tusks on walruses and antlers on moose. Sexual conflict – the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

A stream is a stream is a stream... or is it?

Scientists supported by NSF SEES use everything from microscopes to deep-sea submersibles in their research. But how many SEES scientists need a machete?

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cosmic 'leaf blower' robs galaxy of star-making fuel

(PhysOrg.com) -- Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower, a new study finds. The findings, which relied on ultraviolet ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The sounds of Mars and Venus are revealed for the first time

In a world first, the sounds of Mars and Venus are revealed as part of a planetarium show in Hampshire this Easter.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Speca -- An intriguing look into the beginning of a black hole jet

Its catalog number is NGC 3801, but its name is SPECA – a Spiral-host Episodic radio galaxy tracing Cluster Accretion. That’s certainly a mouthful of words for this unusual galaxy, but there’s ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Working models for the gravitational field of Phobos

Phobos is the larger and closer of the two natural satellites of Mars. Despite decades of Martian exploration, we still know very little about Phobos. Many fundamental properties of this small potato-shaped body stay vague, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Paternal components in fruit flies, humans may contribute to fertilization, embryonic development

(PhysOrg.com) -- It had long been assumed that the human sperm cell’s mission in life ended once it had transferred its freight of parental DNA to the egg. More recently however, other components of sperm have been implicated ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Analyzing complex plant genomes with the newest next-generation DNA sequencing techniques

Genomes are catalogs of hereditary information that determine whether an organism becomes a plant, animal, fungus or microbe, and whether the organism is adapted to its surroundings. Determining the sequence ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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