Exotic marine species, including giant seaweeds, are spreading fast, with harmful effects on native species, and are increasingly affecting the biodiversity of the Mediterranean seabed. Some native species, such as sea urchins ...
Ecology
Jul 13, 2011
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Farmers who spray insecticides against aphids as a preventative measure only achieve a short-term effect with this method. In the long term, their fields will end up with even more aphids than untreated fields. This has been ...
Ecology
Jul 13, 2011
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Greg Dumont doesn't need a crystal ball to predict where the next Olympic Games will be held ... he has science on his side.
Mathematics
Jul 13, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University researchers have found that a subset of fungus-farming ambrosia beetles may be in the early stages of a global epidemic threatening a number of economically important trees, ...
Ecology
Jul 13, 2011
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The study, by researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial College London, is published today in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.
Plants & Animals
Jul 13, 2011
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Recent video footage from a survey on a group of critically endangered Amur leopards in the Russian Far East has yielded unexpectedly positive results, giving evidence that some wild groups of the big cat are showing clear ...
Ecology
Jul 13, 2011
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A team of undergraduate computer scientists and their professor at South Dakota State University are building software to protect people in Africa and North America from mosquito-borne illnesses.
Software
Jul 13, 2011
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The national champion solar car team will soon put its 2011 car and crew to the toughest test before the October World Solar Challenge. On Saturday, the University of Michigan team will embark on a 1,000-mile, four-day "mock ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 13, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology are looking for ways to reduce the high cost of internet data storage and retrieval in cloud computing.
Computer Sciences
Jul 13, 2011
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A company that emerged from pioneering research in the Cambridge University Engineering Department is leading the field in the development of software based on predictive behavioural modelling for use in the gaming and financial ...
Software
Jul 13, 2011
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