The brain is not as cramped as we thought
Using an innovative method, Swiss scientists show that the brain is not as compact as we have thought all along.
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Australians warned of deadly spider 'plague' after floods
A "plague" of the world's most venomous spiders could swarm Sydney after torrential rain and flooding, the Australian Reptile Park said Wednesday, warning that the deadly arachnids could seek refuge in homes as they escape ...
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Mar 24, 2021
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Researchers Build World's Largest Disease Association Network
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you suffer from hypertension, how much does your risk for developing diabetes or other illnesses increase? Medical experts have long known that many diseases are related to one another, even to the point ...
Researchers propose new method for calculating values of ecosystem services
Researchers propose that governments apply a new method for calculating the benefits that arise from conserving biodiversity and nature for future generations.
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Mar 7, 2024
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A chicken coup: Group seeks to protect rare breeds
(AP) -- At about the time Foghorn Leghorn appeared on the Looney Toons drawing board in 1946, he began disappearing from America's dinner tables.
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Apr 24, 2009
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Within an Antarctic sea squirt, scientists discover a bacterial species with promising anti-melanoma properties
There are few places farther from your medicine cabinet than the tissues of an ascidian, or "sea squirt," on the icy Antarctic sea floor—but this is precisely where scientists are looking to find a new treatment for melanoma, ...
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Dec 1, 2021
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It may be time to eliminate the best-before date on food packaging, say smart packaging researchers
The inventors of a suite of tests that enable food packages to signal whether their contents are contaminated are working to bring producers and regulators together to get their inventions into commercial products, with the ...
Biotechnology
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Biology May Not Be So Complex Afterall
(PhysOrg.com) -- Centuries ago, scientists began reducing the physics of the universe into a few, key laws described by a handful of parameters. Such simple descriptions have remained elusive for complex biological systems ...
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Feb 24, 2010
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Evidence found for gestures as the likely beginnings of human communication
A team of researchers from Australia, Germany and the U.S. has found evidence that the origin of human language was hand gestures rather than grunts. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group ...
Live-in grandparents helped human ancestors get a safer night's sleep
A sound night's sleep grows more elusive as people get older. But what some call insomnia may actually be an age-old survival mechanism, researchers report.
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