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Did 'Dark Gulping' Generate Black Holes in Early Universe?

(PhysOrg.com) -- A process called ‘dark gulping’ may solve the mystery of the how supermassive black holes were able to form when the Universe was less than a billion years old.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (16) | comments 10

Climate change affects bird migration timing in North America

Bird migration timing across North America has been affected by climate change, according to a study published Feb. 22 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Birds Of A Feather Attack Together

Last summer, physicist Suzanne Amador Kane at Haverford College in Pennsylvania set up an experiment looking at how flocks of small birds on her campus -- swallows -- defend themselves from predators by ganging ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Natural antioxidants give top barn swallows a leg on competitors

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates North American barn swallows outperform their peers in reproduction -- the "currency" of evolutionary change -- by maintaining a positive balance of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MU researcher developing test for swallowing disorder treatments

Muscle degeneration and confinement to a wheelchair are the hallmarks of Lou Gehrig's disease, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy and other neurodegenerative diseases. One of the silent, and most serious, symptoms of these diseases ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0