What makes head lice different from body lice had scientists scratching their heads as previous genetic studies failed to find any substantial differences between the two types of lice.
Ecology
Jul 28, 2015
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Augmented-reality head-up displays (AR-HUDs) that present digital images on windshields to alert drivers to everything from possible collisions to smart phone activity, are meant to make driving safer. But University of Toronto ...
Other
Jun 25, 2015
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High-speed videos of lovebirds making quick in flight turns reveal how they improve sight and shorten blur by rotating their head at speeds of up to 2700 degrees per second, according to a study published June 24 in the open-access ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2015
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Evolutionary biologist Michael Shapiro and his team from the University of Utah made international headlines in 2013 when they found that a prominent change in pigeon plumage, head crests, could be traced to a mutation in ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A trio of researchers with members from Denmark, the U.S. and Germany has found that a group of men living in medieval Denmark who had healed head traumas had a 6.2 percent higher chance of dying at any given ...
New research has for the first time provided evidence that reptiles could be capable of social learning through imitation.
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2014
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In the Friday (May 30) edition of the journal Science, researchers find that early childhood development programs are particularly important for disadvantaged children in Jamaica and can greatly impact an individual's ability ...
Social Sciences
May 29, 2014
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As multicellular creatures go, planaria worms are hardly glamorous. To say they appear rudimentary is more like it. These tiny aquatic flatworms that troll ponds and standing water resemble brown tubes equipped with just ...
Biotechnology
Apr 10, 2014
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A team of Egyptian and French archaeologists have found five heads of royal statues from the pharaonic era, officials from the antiquities ministry said on Saturday.
Archaeology
Nov 17, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers, two from Australia and one from Germany has discovered a new kind of sea slug that lives on the Great Barrier Reef—a kind that also stab each other in the head after copulating. In their ...
