- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 20th, 2006
Bats Learn What Food is Eatable by Listening to their Neighbors
Eavesdropping fringe-lipped bats spread culture through sound
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 20th, 2006
The First Global Bird Map
Scientists discover new clues to future extinctions
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 20th, 2006
Bones Hold the Key to Blood Renewal
Study reveals the relationship between blood-forming stem cells, bone, and the immune system
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 20th, 2006
Monkeys Can Be Meteorologists Too
Primates take weather into account when searching for fruits
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 20th, 2006
Tropical Forest CO2 Emissions Tied to Nutrient Increases
Phosphorus and/or nitrogen crank up greenhouse gas emissions in tropics
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 19th, 2006
The Melting of Permafrost: a Carbon Menace
Scientists discovered that permafrost contains unexpectedly large amounts of carbon
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 19th, 2006
How Axons Sniff Their Way Toward Proper Destinations
New Roles for Growth Factors: Enticing Nerve cells to Muscles
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 19th, 2006
Global Warming May Warrant New Approaches to Ecosystem Restoration
How to deal with ecosystems' unpredictability
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 19th, 2006
Clues about the Formation of Leaf Patterns
The same mechanism that regulates vein formation in the leaf also regulates branch formation on the main trunk and on the main root
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 19th, 2006
Vampire Bats Recognise Their Prey's Breathing
Vampire bats use breathing sounds to identify their prey in the same way as humans use voice to recognize each other
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 9th, 2006
Recent Climate Change Is Speeding Up the Evolution of Animal Species
Researchers say that the organisms are adapting to altered seasons and not to direct effects of increasing temperatures
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 9th, 2006
Gazelles Breath Less During Drought
They shrink liver and heart to reduce oxygen consumption during drought
- By Vlad Tarko
- June 8th, 2006
The Myth of Monogamous Swans
Researches study the sex lives of black swans
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 7th, 2006
Where Is the Climate's Stove?
It's not at the tropics, as previously thought.
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 6th, 2006
Beaver Dams Are More Important than Previously Thought
It appears that dams create healthy downstream ecosystems
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 5th, 2006
African Electric Fish Are About to Separate into Two Species
Researchers may have found an example of sympatric speciation
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- June 2nd, 2006
Surviving with Little or No Oxygen
The common carp sheds new light on surviving in extreme environments