A virtuous cycle: Safety in numbers for riders
It seems paradoxical but the more people ride bicycles on our city streets, the less likely they are to be injured in traffic accidents.
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Battle-scarred birds are more co-operative
Just as football fans commiserate with their friends in the pub when their team loses a match, research from the University of Bristol demonstrates that birds support one another following contests with their rivals.
Sep 3, 2008
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New stem cell tools to aid drug development
SCIENTISTS have designed, developed and tested new molecular tools for stem cell research to direct the formation of certain tissue types for use in drug development programmes.
Sep 3, 2008
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Cell division study resolves 50-year-old-debate, may aid cancer research
A new study at Oregon State University has finally resolved a controversy that cellular biologists have been arguing over for nearly 50 years, with findings that may aid research on everything from birth defects and genetic ...
Sep 3, 2008
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Chandelier cells unveil human cognition
What is it that distinguishes humans from other mammals? The answer to this question lies in the neocortex – the part of the brain responsible for sensory perceptions, conscious thought, and language. Humans have a considerably ...
Sep 3, 2008
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Honest lovers? Fallow buck groans reveal their status and size during the rut
It is known that the phonic structure of calls produced by males during the breeding season may signal quality-related characteristics in many different types of animals. Previous research on mammals has mainly focussed on ...
Sep 3, 2008
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Energy-saving bacteria resist antibiotics
Bacteria save energy by producing proteins that moonlight, having different roles at different times, which may also protect the microbes from being killed. The moonlighting activity of one enzyme from the tuberculosis bacterium ...
Sep 3, 2008
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Invisibility undone: Chinese scientists demonstrate how to uncloak an invisible object
Harry Potter beware! A team of Chinese scientists has developed a way to unmask your invisibility cloak. According to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, certain ...
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