Where have all the flowers gone?
It's summer wildflower season in the Rocky Mountains, a time when high-peaks meadows are dotted with riotous color. But for how long?
Ecology
Jun 16, 2011
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Page 18 - News tagged with queens
Blackbeard's anchor recovered off NC coast (Update)
Archaeologists recovered the first anchor from what's believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's flagship off the North Carolina coast Friday, a move that might change plans about how to save the rest of the almost ...
Archaeology
May 27, 2011
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Secret of royal jelly's super-sizing effect on queen bees appears to be special protein royalactin
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in Nature, Japanese researcher Masaki Kamakura describes a process he used to determine that the protein royalactin, is at least one of the components responsible for turning an ordinary ...
Internet goes crazy for first online royal wedding
The first British royal wedding of the Internet age is generating one mention every 10 seconds online and will be streamed live to an estimated audience of several hundred million viewers.
Internet
Apr 26, 2011
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Rhythmic vibrations guide caste development in social wasps
(PhysOrg.com) -- Future queen or tireless toiler? A paper wasp's destiny may lie in the antennal drumbeats of its caretaker.
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2011
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Identifying Eadgyth
When German archaeologists discovered bones in the tomb of Queen Eadgyth in Magdeburg Cathedral, they looked to Bristol to provide the crucial scientific evidence that the remains were indeed those of the English royal. Dr. ...
Archaeology
Nov 26, 2010
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The Socialite Network: UK's Queen joins Facebook
(AP) -- Britain's royal household says Queen Elizabeth II is launching her own fan page on Facebook.
Internet
Nov 7, 2010
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Honey bees: Genetic labeling decides about blue blood
Queen bees and worker bees share the same genome, but they are different in the chemical labeling of about 550 genes. This has been discovered by scientists of the German Cancer Research Center jointly with colleagues in ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 3, 2010
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British royals expand online presence with Flickr
(AP) -- These aren't your average family snapshots.
Internet
Jul 25, 2010
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Insulin signaling key to caste development in bees
What makes a bee grow up to be a queen? Scientists have long pondered this mystery. Now, researchers in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University have fit a new piece into the puzzle of bee development. Their ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 14, 2010
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