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A post-coital switch: Mapping the changing behaviors in the female fruit fly's mind

If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then it shouldn't be surprising that their neural circuits differ. In research published today in the journal Current Biology, researchers have used dramatic change ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A mighty revealing mouse

Ten years ago, when Prof. Neville Pillay first started investigating the semi-desert-dwelling African striped mouse or Rhabdomys in the Goegap Nature Reserve near Springbok, Northern Cape, he never anticipated ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hanging with the boys – female Alpine marmots benefit from a bit of pre-natal testosterone

Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota) live in extended family groups of up to 20 individuals. The groups consist of a dominant territorial pair and a number of subordinate individuals, typically descendants of the dominant pair. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study suggests methylation and gene sequence co-evolve in human-chimp evolutionary divergence

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and the University of Southern California (USC) today published the first quantitative evidence supporting the notion that the genome-wide "bookmarking" of DNA with methyl ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gulf of Mexico dead zone severely impairs reproduction in Atlantic croaker

(PhysOrg.com) -- Atlantic croaker living in the large Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone" exhibit severe reproductive impairment with potential long-term impacts on the fish's population abundance, researchers from ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Endangered gourmet sea snail could be doomed by increasing ocean acidity

Increasing levels of ocean acidity could spell doom for British Columbia's already beleaguered northern abalone, according to the first study to provide direct experimental evidence that changing sea water chemistry is negatively ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Turning plants into power houses

(PhysOrg.com) -- "I have a slide that has a photo of a cornfield and a big photovoltaic array," says Robert Blankenship, a scientist who studies photosynthesis at Washington University in St. Louis. "When ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

In fireflies, flightless females lose out on gifts from males

Every parent with young children knows that couples need to work together to accomplish the myriad tasks waiting both at work and at home. But it may come as a surprise that fireflies also juggle their commitments ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sexual plant reproduction: Male and female talk in the same way as do cells in your brain

A team of researchers at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC), Portugal, discovered that pollen, the organ that contains the plant male gametes, communicate with the pistil, their female counterpart, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The warped ways of cosmic light

Albert Einstein predicted them, modern giant telescopes detected them – and Klaus Dolag simulates them on a computer: gravitational lenses. The academic staff member at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 2


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