For deer mice living in the Nebraska Sandhills, color can literally be the difference between life and death.
Evolution
Mar 14, 2013
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Composting instead of incinerating or landfilling is a promising way that has until now been hampered by the presence of chemicals in packaging.
Materials Science
Mar 5, 2013
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Fujitsu today announced the industry's first in development of a water-based paint for use on the plastic chassis of servers, personal computers, and other ICT equipment. The new water-based paint is used on the front panels ...
Engineering
Mar 4, 2013
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Flower colors that contrast with their background are more important to foraging bees than patterns of colored veins on pale flowers according to new research, by Heather Whitney from the University of Cambridge in the UK, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 21, 2013
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A bright blue pigment used 5,000 years ago is giving modern scientists clues toward the development of new nanomaterials with potential uses in state-of-the-art medical imaging devices, remote controls for televisions, security ...
Materials Science
Feb 20, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Though scientists have long believed that complex organic molecules couldn't survive fossilization, some 350-million-year-old remains of aquatic sea creatures uncovered in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa have challenged ...
Archaeology
Feb 19, 2013
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To truly understand the mechanisms of natural selection, evolutionary biologists need to shift their focus from present-day molecules to synthesized, ancestral ones, says Shozo Yokoyama, a biologist at Emory University.
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Little penguins, also known as fairy penguins, usually have a white belly and dark blue back to camouflage them from predatory eagles above and their fish prey below.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2013
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Red coloration—historically seen as costly in vertebrates—historically seen as costly in vertebrates—might represent some physiological benefit after all, according to research published in the journal Physiological ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2013
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(Phys.org)—New research by the University of Southampton has found a mechanism as to how corals use their pink and purple hues as sunscreen to protect them against harmful sunlight.
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2013
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