Researchers with Deakin University in Australia have conducted a study of the native Australian water bird banded stilt and have found it has truly unique migration behavior. In their paper published in the journal Biology ...
Clusters of galaxies have back-stories worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster: their existences are marked by violence, death and birth, arising after extragalactic pile-ups where groups of galaxies crashed into each other.
Astronomy
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When Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers invented the field of biological accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) in the late 1980s, the process of preparing the samples was time-consuming and cumbersome.
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 15, 2014
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A molecular biologist says the Pilbara has 161 per cent more Mygalomorph spider species than previously thought, according to a new genetic analysis.
Plants & Animals
Oct 15, 2014
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You have likely been to a zoo at some point and visited their reptile house. A building where the climate control dial is stuck on the "wet sauna" setting, and filled with maniacal children competing to be the first to press ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 15, 2014
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Farms with windbreaks with significant areas of ground cover vegetation have been shown to attract wasps that are beneficial to agricultural pest control, according to a new study from the University of Melbourne.
Ecology
Oct 15, 2014
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Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered that an ancient gene—ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), which occurs in all cellular life—provides important biological insights into the characteristics of unknown ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 15, 2014
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If you owned two companies in the same industry, would you make them compete? Probably not, knowing the firms make higher profits if they don't.
Business
Oct 15, 2014
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Japanese toymaker Tomy on Wednesday unveiled a multi-talented humanoid robot, named "Robi jr.," which can converse using some 1,000 phrases and belt out about 50 songs, as well as move its limbs and head.
Robotics
Oct 15, 2014
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Deakin University scientists have gained fascinating new insights into the secret lives of a nomadic Australian waterbird whose ability to somehow know it has rained up to thousands of kilometres away has intrigued researchers ...
Ecology
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