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Why do birds migrate?
Why do some birds fly thousands of miles back and forth between breeding and non-breeding areas every year whereas others never travel at all? view more (2007-03-02)
Post Oak Grasshoppers Emerging
They're not afraid of heights, they're voracious, and Dr. Spencer Behmer wants to know if you've seen them hanging out in oak trees or on your house. view more (2007-04-18)
Edge density key to controlling gypsy moth spread
Controlling population peaks on the edges of the gypsy moth range may help to slow their invasion into virgin territory, according to a team of researchers. view more (2006-11-16)
New strategies against bird flu
The Spanish flu outbreak of 1918 killed between 30 and 50 million people. In the infected patients, the ultimate cause of death was acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). view more (2008-04-18)
Arctic oil: A boon for nest predators
A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and other groups reveals how oil development in the Artic is impacting some bird populations by providing "subsidized housing" to predators, which nest and den around drilling infrastructure and supplement their diets with garbage - and nesting birds. view more (2009-09-09)
Imperial College builds spin-out partnership for future growth
Innovative deal signals long-term partnership between the parties A long-term partnership between Imperial College London and two London-based investment houses will, for the first time, create a route for external investment in the growth of Imperial`s portfolio of spin-out companies. Imperial, Fleming Family & Partners Limited (FF&P) and... view more... (2002-05-15)
We're off then: the evolution of bat migration
Not just birds, but also a few species of bats face a long journey every year. Researchers at Princeton University in the U.S. and at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany studied the migratory behaviour of the largest extant family of bats, the so-called "Vespertilionidae" with the help of mathematical models. view more (2009-11-24)
Social interactions can alter gene expression in the brain, and vice versa
Our DNA determines a lot about who we are and how we play with others, but recent studies of social animals (birds and bees, among others) show that the interaction between genes and behavior is more of a two-way street than most of us realize. view more (2008-11-07)
Upland birds in peril from climate change
New evidence suggests that rarely studied upland birds may be as vulnerable as songbirds to climate change. view more (2005-02-01)
Researchers untangle quantum quirk
Quantum computing has been hailed as the next leap forward for computers, promising to catapult memory capacity and processing speeds well beyond current limits. Several challenging problems need to be cracked, however, before the dream can be fully realized. view more (2008-06-11)
Superformula offers an original and refreshing look at nature and science.
New book: `Inventing the Circle` (in Dutch; English version is in process). The geometry of life. Just imagine the impossible and the unthinkable. A set of abstract shapes, like a triangle, a circle, square and rectangle, with convex or concave sides, with sharp or rounded corners, spheres, cubes, pyramids, as well as shapes from nature, like... view more... (2002-01-30)
Smithsonian's National Zoo researchers use electronic eggs to help save threatened species
This is an important summer for kori bustards at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Four chicks of this threatened African bird have hatched in June and July. view more (2007-07-27)
By airship to the North Pole — Zeppelin expedition will survey sea ice in the Arctic
In 2008, scientists will, for the very first time, create a continual profile of ice thickness in the Artic, extending from the Canadian coast across the North Pole to Siberia. view more (2007-04-13)
Avian flu in perspective
An article by Robert Belshe, M.D., of Saint Louis University School of Medicine in this week's New England Journal of Medicine reviews recent "spectacular achievements of contemporary molecular biology" that hold great importance as the world prepares for a possible flu pandemic. view more (2005-11-28)
Integral expands our view of the gamma-ray sky
Integral's latest survey of the gamma-ray universe continues to change the way astronomers think of the high-energy cosmos. With over seventy percent of the sky now observed by Integral, astronomers have been able to construct the largest catalogue yet of individual gamma-ray-emitting celestial objects. view more (2007-02-21)
Attitudes to pain in later life
Can older people live contented and pleasurable lives even when riddled with disabling pain? Dr Jan Walker, from the University of Southampton will discuss this issue today, Thursday 11 July, at the Annual Conference of the Psychologists Special Interest Group in Older People, held at King Alfred’s College, Winchester. view more (2002-07-02)
UGA study identifies North American wild bird species that could transmit bird flu
University of Georgia researchers have found that the common wood duck and laughing gull are very susceptible to highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses and have the potential to transmit them. view more (2006-10-24)
Researchers identify key step bird flu virus takes to spread readily in humans
Since it first appeared in Hong Kong in 1997, the H5N1 avian flu virus has been slowly evolving into a pathogen better equipped to infect humans. The final form of the virus, biomedical researchers fear, will be a highly pathogenic strain of influenza that spreads easily among humans. view more (2007-10-05)
Dinosaur Fossil Bone Leads to Gender, Age Determinations
Paleontologists at North Carolina State University have determined that a 68 million year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil from Montana is that of a young female, and that she was producing eggs when she died. view more (2005-06-02)
Roadrunners not too fast for AgriLife researcher
Wile E. Coyote might not have been able to catch up with the roadrunner on the Saturday morning cartoons, but one Texas AgriLife Research scientist has had no problems. view more (2009-08-03)
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