Putting a price on the services which a particular ecosystem provides may encourage the adoption of greener policies, but it may come at the price of biodiversity conservation. Writing today in the journal Science, Professor ...
Environment
Oct 30, 2014
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New research has shown that despite moving house frequently, bats choose to roost with the same social groups of 'friends'.
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2014
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Persimmons are among the small club of plants with separate sexes—individual trees are either male or female. Now scientists at the University of California, Davis, and Kyoto University in Japan have discovered how sex ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2014
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Biologists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have described the atomic-level workings of "microRNA" molecules, which control the expression of genes in all animals and plants.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 30, 2014
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Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a way to use sound to create cellular scaffolding for tissue engineering, a unique approach that could help overcome one of regenerative medicine's significant obstacles. ...
General Physics
Oct 30, 2014
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Strong sales in the United States helped boost the global market for tablet computers in the third quarter, tracker IDC said Thursday.
Business
Oct 30, 2014
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Spanish lawmakers annoyed Google on Thursday by passing a law that allows media organisations to charge the Internet giant for the right to reproduce their news content.
Internet
Oct 30, 2014
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Restoring wetlands can help reduce or reverse soil subsidence and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to research in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta by Dartmouth College researchers and their colleagues.
Environment
Oct 30, 2014
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The BIOMAT research group has developed a single-layer, biodegradable container from agro-industrial by-products suitable for both liquid and solid oily products.
Materials Science
Oct 30, 2014
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The lemur, Javan rhino and Santa Cruz kangaroo rat are all lonesome animals. As endemic species, they live in habitats restricted to a particular area due to climate change, urban development or other occurrences.
Ecology
Oct 30, 2014
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