(PhysOrg.com) -- After studying male desert goby fish, a team of Monash researchers has suggested that male sexual behaviour is primed to produce the greatest number of offspring.
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2011
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Scientists thought that sawfish used their saw to probe the sea bottom for food. But a Cairns researcher has found that these large (5 meters or more) and endangered fish actually use the saw to locate and dismember ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For most people the word bacteria will conjure up either images of nasty microorganisms that we fight against daily by cleaning the spaces around us, or the type of 'good' bacteria doctors advise us to consume ...
Biochemistry
Jun 9, 2011
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Wetter springs in Mauritius are making the island's kestrels breed later in the season than they did 30 years ago, researchers have discovered.
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2011
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Designed for the toughest engineering environments, NXP Semiconductors N.V. today unveiled its new XR family of “eXtremely Rugged” LDMOS RF power transistors. The XR family is designed tough-as-nails to withstand ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jun 9, 2011
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It's time for the United States to consider establishing higher standards for math teachers if the nation is going to break its "vicious cycle" of mediocrity, a Michigan State University education scholar argues in Science ...
Social Sciences
Jun 9, 2011
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High-quality early education has a strong, positive impact well into adulthood, according to research led by Arthur Reynolds, co-director of the Human Capital Research Collaborative and professor of child development, and ...
Social Sciences
Jun 9, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It has been 100 years since the discovery of superconductivity, a state achieved when mercury was cooled, with the help of liquid helium, to nearly the coldest temperature achievable to form a superfluid ...
General Physics
Jun 9, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbonaceous chondrites are a type of organic-rich meteorite that contain samples of the materials that took part in the creation of our planets nearly 4.6 billion years ago, including materials that were ...
Space Exploration
Jun 9, 2011
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Two University of Pennsylvania engineers have proposed the possibility of two-dimensional metamaterials. These one-atom-thick metamaterials could be achieved by controlling the conductivity of sheets of graphene, which is ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 9, 2011
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