For years, debate swirled around whether pathways activated by growth-regulating... [read >>]
Date: 13 August 2006, 08:26 GMT
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To a tiny tadpole, life boils down to two basic missions: eat, and avoid being e... [read >>]
Date: 13 August 2006, 08:16 GMT
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A new analysis of data from twin satellites has revealed that the melting of Gre... [read >>]
Date: 13 August 2006, 08:06 GMT
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Hurricane Katrina made landfall August 29, 2005 becoming the costliest ($75 bill... [read >>]
Date: 12 August 2006, 10:16 GMT
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When pregnant, dominant female meerkats subject their subordinates to escalating... [read >>]
Date: 12 August 2006, 08:36 GMT
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MIT researchers have confirmed the first sighting of a Dungeness crab in the Atl... [read >>]
Date: 11 August 2006, 08:34 GMT
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Songbirds use multiple sources of directional cues to guide their seasonal migra... [read >>]
Date: 11 August 2006, 06:55 GMT
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An international effort to determine the variability of recent snowfall over Ant... [read >>]
Date: 11 August 2006, 06:55 GMT
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A study demonstrates that elephants show caring behavior towards other elephants... [read >>]
Date: 11 August 2006, 06:55 GMT
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The detailed images of embryos more than 500 million years old have been reveale... [read >>]
Date: 10 August 2006, 10:57 GMT
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When scientists study habitats that alien species have invaded, they usually fin... [read >>]
Date: 10 August 2006, 09:09 GMT
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In the long, dark days of winter, gardeners are known to count the days until sp... [read >>]
Date: 10 August 2006, 09:09 GMT
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A little-known valley in northern Sweden holds evidence that warming temperature... [read >>]
Date: 09 August 2006, 09:19 GMT
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Every hurricane season, about 100 low-pressure weather disturbances whirl westwa... [read >>]
Date: 09 August 2006, 09:19 GMT
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Twenty of the world’s leading marine scientists have called in letters to the in... [read >>]
Date: 09 August 2006, 08:28 GMT
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In addition to the more obvious effects of climate change, such as rising sea le... [read >>]
Date: 09 August 2006, 07:19 GMT
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The small red-eyed damselfly, Erythromma viridulum, was first found in Britain i... [read >>]
Date: 08 August 2006, 10:29 GMT
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An innovative solution for the man-made carbon dioxide fouling our skies could r... [read >>]
Date: 08 August 2006, 09:33 GMT
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Leopard's spots and Zebra's stripes inspired the ancient myths famousl... [read >>]
Date: 08 August 2006, 07:23 GMT
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Snakes see surprisingly well, even in the dark (at least those of the pit viper ... [read >>]
Date: 08 August 2006, 07:23 GMT
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For the first time, scientists have been able to use satellite data to detect th... [read >>]
Date: 07 August 2006, 10:07 GMT
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Finding ways of predicting the Earth's "chemical weather" from sp... [read >>]
Date: 07 August 2006, 07:41 GMT
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Genetic analysis of living spruce trees provides strong evidence for the presenc... [read >>]
Date: 04 August 2006, 10:42 GMT
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The tiny fibers that comprise blood clots show extraordinary elasticity, on aver... [read >>]
Date: 04 August 2006, 09:53 GMT
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The ivory-billed woodpecker is thought to be extinct, or so most experts have be... [read >>]
Date: 04 August 2006, 09:44 GMT
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Flower color is traditionally viewed as a method by which a plant advertises its... [read >>]
Date: 04 August 2006, 07:09 GMT
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"The neighborhoods with the highest mortality rates were less likely to hav... [read >>]
Date: 03 August 2006, 10:46 GMT
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Predators such as leopards and chimpanzees consistently target smaller-brained p... [read >>]
Date: 03 August 2006, 07:52 GMT
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The great apes are the smartest of all nonhuman primates, with orangutans and ch... [read >>]
Date: 02 August 2006, 10:15 GMT
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In a report released today, scientists call for a new systematic study of the Ea... [read >>]
Date: 02 August 2006, 09:47 GMT
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Bacteria play an important role in the formation of gold nuggets in Australia ac... [read >>]
Date: 02 August 2006, 09:15 GMT
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