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Fossil cricket: Jurassic love song reconstructed

Some 165 million years ago, the world was host to a diversity of sounds. Primitive bushcrickets and croaking amphibians were among the first animals to produce loud sounds by stridulation (rubbing certain ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Monkeys with larger friend networks have more gray matter

New research in the UK on rhesus macaque monkeys has found for the first time that if they live in larger groups they develop more gray matter in parts of the brain involved in processing information on social ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Hand study reveals brain's distorted body model

Our brains contain a highly distorted model of our own bodies, according to new research by scientists at UCL (University College London). A study published today, which focussed on the brain's representation ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Fake chips threaten military

A growing deluge of millions of counterfeit chips is posing peril to the military and the general public -- and perhaps nothing illustrates it better than a scheme federal prosecutors recently revealed that stretched from ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 23

Whisker stimulation prevents strokes in rats, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Talk about surviving by a whisker. The most common type of stroke can be completely prevented in rats by stimulating a single whisker, according to a new study by UC Irvine researchers.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Biodegradable synthetic resin replaces vital body parts

Researchers at the University of Twente (UT) have developed a new type of resin that can be broken down by the body. This new resin makes it possible to replicate important body parts exactly and make them ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 6

First Gene Discovered for Most Common Form of Epilepsy

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers, led by investigators at Columbia University Medical Center, has uncovered the first gene linked to the most common type of epilepsy, called Rolandic epilepsy. ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Protein that regulates hormones critical to women's health found in pituitary

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have solved the mystery surrounding a "rogue protein" that plays a role in the release of neurotransmitters and hormones in the brain.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Orangutans at Miami zoo use iPads to communicate

(AP) -- The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family's teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan's elders show no interest.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Wild birds respond differently to the first long days of a year

The lengthening of days in late winter is an important signal that stimulates the reproductive activity of many animals. Animals living in the milder climatic conditions of southern Europe usually begin breeding ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research raises new questions about animal empathy

The emotions of rats and mice and the mental infrastructure behind them promise to illuminate the nature of human emotions, including empathy and nurturance, a Washington State University neuroscientist writes in this Friday's ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nanoparticles cause brain injury in fish

Scientists at the University of Plymouth have shown, for the first time in an animal, that nanoparticles have a detrimental effect on the brain and other parts of the central nervous system.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Study: Seniors see savings in Medicare drug option

(AP) -- Medicare's 3-year-old prescription drug plan has largely met its main goal of making lifesaving medicines more affordable for seniors, a new report found.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study addresses impact of Medicare Part D on medical spending

After enrolling in Medicare Part D, seniors who previously had limited or no drug coverage spent more on prescriptions and less on other medical care services such as hospitalizations and visits to the doctor's office, according ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

'Beauty' injections can turn ugly: NY health officials

New Yorkers looking for a quick beauty fix risk death from unlicensed practitioners offering oil injections to enhance prized body parts, health authorities warned Friday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1