Endangered gopher frogs bred in zoo
Tennessee's Memphis Zoo says it has successful started the first captive breeding program for endangered Mississippi gopher frogs.
Apr 8, 2008
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Most powerful laser in the world fires up
The Texas Petawatt laser reached greater than one petawatt of laser power on Monday morning, March 31, making it the highest powered laser in the world, Todd Ditmire, a physicist at The University of Texas at Austin, said.
General Physics
Apr 8, 2008
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Double trouble with insecticide-resistant mosquitoes
Mosquitoes harbouring two insecticide-resistance genes have been found to survive unexpectedly well in an insecticide-free environment where carrying such genes would normally expected to be a burden. As outlined in research ...
Apr 8, 2008
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Transmitting prion diseases in milk
Scrapie can be transmitted to lambs through milk, according to new research published in the online open access journal BMC Veterinary Research. The study provides important information on the transmission of this prion-associated ...
Apr 8, 2008
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We're surrounded! House dust is a rich source of bacteria
If you’ve always suspected there are unknown things living in the dark and dusty corners of your home and office, we are now one step closer to cataloguing exactly what might be lurking in your indoor environment. Buildings ...
Apr 8, 2008
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How fast can a rat smell?
Using an ethologically relevant task—exploratory sniffing—Daniel Wesson and colleagues from Boston University discovered that rats are able to discriminate odors much more quickly than previously thought, in as little ...
Apr 8, 2008
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Evolution on the table top
Evolution has taken another step away from being dismissed as “a theory” in the classroom, thanks to a new paper published this week in the online open-access journal PLoS Biology. The research article, by Brian Paegel ...
Apr 8, 2008
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