Male túngara frogs call from puddles to attract females. The production of the call incidentally creates ripples that spread across the water. Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama revealed ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2014
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"Where do new genes come from?" is a long-standing question in genetics and evolutionary biology. A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis, published Jan. 23 in Science Express, shows that new genes ...
Biotechnology
Jan 23, 2014
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How would electrons behave if confined to a wire so slender they could pass through it only in single-file?
Quantum Physics
Jan 23, 2014
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Introducing a new approach that combines evolutionary and engineering analyses to identify the targets of natural selection, researchers report in the current issue of Evolution that the new tool opens a way of discovering ...
Evolution
Jan 23, 2014
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In 2009, a borehole drilled at Krafla, northeast Iceland, as part of the Icelandic Deep Drilling Project (IDDP), unexpectedly penetrated into magma (molten rock) at only 2100 meters depth, with a temperature of 900-1000 C. ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2014
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NASA's super-high-flying fleet of communication satellites is about to grow.
Space Exploration
Jan 23, 2014
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Neiman Marcus says 1.1 million debit and credit cards used at its stores may have been compromised in a security breach last year.
Security
Jan 23, 2014
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A man suspected of breaking into the email accounts of Romanian and US celebrities, including the Bush family, under the nickname "Guccifer" has been arrested in Romania with US help.
Security
Jan 23, 2014
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As all school-children learn, cells divide using a process called mitosis, which consists of a number of phases during which duplicate copies of the cell's DNA-containing chromosomes are pulled apart and separated into two ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 23, 2014
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Tiny protein motors in cells can steer microtubules in the right direction through branching nerve cell structures, according to Penn State researchers who used laboratory experiments to test a model of how these cellular ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 23, 2014
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