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We're off then: The evolution of bat migration

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not just birds, but also a few species of bats face a long journey every year. Researchers at Princeton University in the U.S. and at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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In tech first, US puts entire 1940 census online

The National Archives opened a treasure trove to genealogists and historians on Monday, releasing the 1940 national census in its entirety -- and doing so for the first time online.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Improving evolutionary Tree of Life: Study provides robust molecular phylogeny for mammalian families

An international research team led by biologists at the University of California, Riverside and Texas A&M University has released for the first time a large and robust DNA matrix that has representation for ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

How early reptiles moved

Jena (Germany) Modern scientists would have loved the sight of early reptiles running across the Bromacker near Tambach-Dietharz (Germany) 300 million years ago. Unfortunately this journey through time is ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

When plants spin off new species

(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to what most people may think, the speciation rates of plants are not linked to the first development of a novel physical trait or mechanism. New international research shows that ...

Biology / Evolution

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Succulent plants waited for cool, dry Earth to make their mark

The cactus, stalwart of the desert, has quite a story to tell about the evolution of plant communities found the world over.

Biology / Evolution

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Like products, plants wait for optimal configuration before market success

Just as a company creates new, better versions of a product to increase market share and pad its bottom line, an international team of researchers led by Brown University has found that plants tinker with ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How advanced genetic techniques can unravel complex human stories

Scholars from all over the world are gathering at the University of Cambridge today for a workshop entitled Studia Stemmatologica. They will be looking at novel ways of applying advanced genetic-mapping techniques ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The similarities in red, green algae

(PhysOrg.com) -- For Debashish Bhattacharya, the knowledge that half the oxygen on Earth is generated by algae through photosynthesis begs an important evolutionary question: How did algae come to be such ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientific understanding of T. rex revised by a decade of new research and discovery

A new paper in Science highlights recent tyrannosaur discoveries and complex analyses of the biology of certain species. The paper includes a new family tree for T. rex and its relatives.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Of microorganisms and man: First large-scale test confirms Darwin's theory of universal common ancestry

More than 150 years ago, Darwin proposed the theory of universal common ancestry (UCA), linking all forms of life by a shared genetic heritage from single-celled microorganisms to humans. Until now, the theory that makes ...

Biology / Evolution

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (65) | comments 164 | with audio podcast


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