(Phys.org)—The relocation of the Herbarium's one million pressed and dried plants to their new home in the University's state-of-the-art Sainsbury Laboratory is turning up hundreds of unique specimens never seen since their ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2012
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Using a state-of-the-art digital specimen table called Insider Explorer, visitors to the Museum's largest ever science festival will be able to peel away the mummified cat's bandages in ways never before possible.
Archaeology
Sep 27, 2012
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(Phys.org)—A study by University of Florida and University of Kansas researchers describing eight new cusk-eel species provides data for better understanding how disasters like the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill impact biodiversity ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- In the pantheon of deadly weather events, heat waves rule.
Environment
Aug 2, 2012
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In a special issue of ZooKeys, initiated by the Natural History Museum London, Vince Smith and Vladimir Blagoderov bring together 18 papers by 81 authors to look at progress and prospects for mass digitising entire natural ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 24, 2012
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University of Adelaide researchers have discovered that recent climate change is causing leaves of some Australian plants to narrow in size.
Ecology
Jul 3, 2012
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Stoneflies, or Plecoptera, are insects that live in water during immature stages, but are terrestrial as adults. They are among the best bioindicators of river water quality and general landscape disturbance. Anglers often ...
Ecology
Apr 12, 2012
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Scientists from Binghamton University and Cardiff University, and New York State Museum researchers, and have reported the discovery of the floor of the world's oldest forest in a cover article in the March 1 issue of Nature, ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 29, 2012
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A photograph of a polar bear in captivity, no matter how sharp the resolution, can never reveal as much about behavior as footage of that polar bear in its natural habitat. The behavior of cells and molecules can prove even ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 1, 2012
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Scientists have been working out the best way to arrange plant specimens in herbaria and other collections so that their order best reflects evolutionary relationships.
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2011
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