In nature, plants engage in a never-ending battle to avoid being eaten. Unable to run away, plant species have evolved defenses to deter herbivores; they have spines, produce nasty chemicals, or grow tough leaves that are ...
Ecology
Aug 21, 2017
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Looking different to your parents can provide species with a way to escape evolutionary dead ends, according to new research from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
Plants & Animals
Aug 8, 2016
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When the script of Lawrence of Arabia called for wrecking a train, director David Lean found it easiest to go ahead and wreck a train, orchestrating and filming it with expert precision. Similarly, while it's possible to ...
General Physics
May 31, 2016
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Clownfish became a household name over a decade ago when Disney released the movie "Finding Nemo."
Ecology
May 25, 2016
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It had been thought that all ants, wasps and other eusocial insects used a common class of chemical compounds to distinguish queens from workers and other members of their colonies or hives. But new research finds that there ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2016
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Plants can sense parasitic roundworms in the soil by picking up on their chemical signals, a team of researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI), on the Cornell University campus, has found.
Biotechnology
Jul 24, 2015
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If there were an international smelling bee, a deadly mite would be a favorite to win.
Plants & Animals
Jun 3, 2015
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Competition may have a high cost for at least one species of tropical seaweed. Researchers examining the chemical warfare taking place on Fijian coral reefs have found that one species of seaweed increases its production ...
Ecology
Jan 8, 2014
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If Dr. Dolittle could talk to the animals, it's more likely he was a chemical ecologist than a linguist, says marine scientist Mark Hay of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta—at least when it came to talking ...
Ecology
Sep 26, 2013
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(Phys.org) —When a molten material cools quickly, parts of it may have enough time to grow into orderly crystals. But if the cooling rate is too fast for the entire melt to crystallize, the remaining material ends up in ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 30, 2013
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