Latest analysis shows that human limbs share a genetic programme with the gills of cartilaginous fishes such as sharks and skates, providing evidence to support a century-old theory on the origin of limbs that had been widely ...
Evolution
Apr 19, 2016
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Researchers at the University of Alicante have been monitoring the on-campus hedgehog population and found some unusual behaviours.
Evolution
Feb 26, 2016
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Your best guess is that the landscape is as inhospitable as it gets: An irregular range of sharp boulders and loose rubble piles strewn among jagged crevasses and deep troughs of dust. But then again, it's just a guess because ...
Space Exploration
Feb 8, 2016
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Hopping, tumbling and flipping over are not typical maneuvers you would expect from a spacecraft exploring other worlds. Traditional Mars rovers, for example, roll around on wheels, and they can't operate upside-down. But ...
Space Exploration
Sep 4, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers with affiliations to the University of Florida and Howard Hughes Medical Institute has found that clasper development in skates is controlled by hormones that regulate the Sonic hedgehog ...
A new process that can sprout microscopic spikes on nearly any type of particle may lead to more environmentally friendly paints and a variety of other innovations. Made by a team of University of Michigan engineers, the ...
Materials Science
Jan 28, 2015
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Too weak to stand on his feet after swallowing poison for garden slugs, Smoky the hedgehog is fighting for his life.
Plants & Animals
Jul 21, 2014
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Meet perhaps the tiniest hedgehog species ever: Silvacola acares. Its roughly 52-million-year-old fossil remains were recently identified by a University of Colorado Boulder-led team working in British Columbia.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 8, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Stem cells switch off and on, sometimes dividing to produce progeny cells and sometimes resting. But scientists don't fully understand what causes the cells to toggle between active and quiet states.
Cell & Microbiology
May 9, 2014
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In most tetrapods (land vertebrates) the fourth (ring) finger is the first to develop in the embryo. And in birds, the finger on the outside of the hand (posterior, the pinky side) appears first, which suggests that this ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 7, 2014
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