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As an ice age crept upon them thousands of years ago, Neanderthals and modern human ancestors expanded their territory ranges across Asia and Europe to adapt to the changing environment.
A ladybird's colour indicates how well-fed and how toxic it is, according to an international team of scientists. Research led by the Universities of Exeter and Liverpool directly shows that differences between animals' warning signals reveal how poisonous individuals are to predators.
The famed "corpse flower" plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that is one-fourth as tall but just as stinky.
A new study provides compelling evidence that the arrival of the invasive non-native harlequin ladybird to mainland Europe and subsequent spread has led to a rapid decline in historically-widespread species of ladybird in Britain, Belgium and Switzerland.
In a study of the harsh but beautiful White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered a unifying mechanism to explain dune patterns. The new work represents a contribution to basic science, but the findings may also hold implications for identifying when dune landscapes like those in Nebraska's Sand Hills may reach a "tipping point
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In a study of the harsh but beautiful White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered a unifying mechanism to explain dune patterns. The new work represents a contribution to basic science, but the findings may also hold implications for identifying when dune landscapes like those in Nebraska's Sand Hills may reach a "tipping point
Closing elementary and secondary schools can help slow the spread of infectious disease and should be considered as a control measure during pandemic outbreaks, according to a McMaster University led study.
Domestic cats, wild bobcats and pumas that live in the same area share the same diseases. And domestic cats may bring them into human homes, according to results of a study of what happens when big and small cats cross paths.
Treatment with three relatively new "targeted" cancer drugs has been linked to a slightly elevated chance of fatal side effects, according to a new analysis led by scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. They added that the risk remains low, but should be taken into account by physicians and patients.
Smoking in men appears to be associated with more rapid cognitive decline, according to a report published Online First by Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
About half of all public and private elementary school students could buy food in one or more competitive venues on campus (vending machines, school stores, snack bars or a la carte lines) by the 2009-2010 school year and sugary foods were available to almost all students with access to these options, according to a report published in the February issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adole
Using whole-genome sequencing, a team led by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Broad Institute has traced the path of the E. coli outbreak that sickened thousands and killed over 50 people in Germany in summer 2011 and also caused a smaller outbreak in France. It is one of the first uses of genome sequencing to study the dynamics of a food-borne ou
Studying female reproductive tracts and sperm in diving beetles (Dytiscidae), researchers from the University of Arizona and Syracuse University have obtained a glimpse into a bizarre and amazing world of sperm that can take on a variety of forms – including joining together into conglomerates that navigate the twisted mazes of the female reproductive tract.
When Hiroaki Matsunami, Ph.D., at Duke set out to study a chemical in male mouse urine called MTMT that attracts female mice, he didn't think he would stumble into a new field of study.
Some 165 million years ago, the world was host to a diversity of sounds. Primitive bushcrickets and croaking amphibians were among the first animals to produce loud sounds by stridulation (rubbing certain body parts together). Modern-day bushcrickets – also known as katydids – produce mating calls by rubbing a row of teeth on one wing against a plectrum on the other wing but how their primitive
Taste receptors on the tongue help us distinguish between safe food and food that's spoiled or toxic. But taste receptors are now being found in other organs, too. In a study published online the week of February 6 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) d
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"Live Park 4D Art Factory" blurs the line between reality and virtual reality.
A computer programming error doomed Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars spacecraft, a government board investigating the accident has determined.
A unique device turns excess water pressure from reservoirs, water treatment plants and factories into electricity.
Directed energy weapons that use wave beams to cause pain, and electrical brain stimulation that boosts a soldier's combat ability - it may sound like science fiction warfare, but experts say advances in neuroscience mean it's on the horizon.
The surface of Mars may have been arid and desolate for more than 600 million years
If you use more as you pay less, the planet keeps getting hotter
Suppose you're a robot. If you had a camera in your head, and you could watch a human doing a simple task, like bunching a pair of socks, could you, just by watching, learn to do it too?
Genetic evidence suggests that Polynesians may have mingled with pre-Columbian Native Americans
Scores of animals exist in scientific laboratories for the purpose of serving as our proxies, their cortices mapped and their flu responses studied so scientists can figure out how humans work.
Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product.
Russian scientists are attempting to beat US and British rivals to be first to drill into an Antarctic sub-glacial lake.
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Bird flu research is on hold after the creation of dangerous viruses in the lab, and important studies will be only partly published. What's going on?
A Spanish silver coin dating from 1816 is among the artifacts a 30-member team of archaeologists has unearthed next to railroad tracks in front of the San Gabriel Mission.Archaeologist Deanna Jones couldn't believe her eyes as she hunched over a shallow pit dug next to railroad tracks in front of the San Gabriel Mission.
After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers is close to breaching the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years.
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Domestic cats, and wild bobcats and pumas, living in same area have same diseases
3 'targeted' cancer drugs raise risk of fatal side effects
Survey of elementary school student access to food in vending machines, snack bars, other venues
Odds of living a very long life lower than formerly predicted
Researchers examine consequences of non-intervention for infectious disease in African great apes
Whole-genome sequencing of 2011 E. coli outbreaks in Europe provides new insight
Tasting fructose with the pancreas
Individual differences in anthrax susceptibility discovered
Why bad immunity genes survive
Satellite tracking reveals sea turtle feeding hotspots
Copper + love chemical = big sulfur stink
The right recipe: Engineering research improves laser detectors, batteries
Nanorod-assembled order affects diffusion rate and direction
Engineers weld nanowires with light
Tree rings may underestimate climate response to volcanic eruptions
Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of European ladybirds
Discovery predicts patient sensitivity to important drug target in deadly brain cancer
What drives public opinion on climate change?
Steroids control gas exchange in plants
Compromises between quantity and quality common in animals, do tradeoffs hold true for plants?
Classic portrait of a barred spiral galaxy
Hubble zooms in on a magnified galaxy
The discovery of deceleration
New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby cool star
Sun delivered curveball of powerful radiation at Earth
Backpacks, not the bombs inside, key to finding DNA
Serendipitous news reading online is gaining prominence
Researchers demonstrate fully printed carbon nanotube transistor circuits for displays
Biocompatible graphene transistor array reads cellular signals
New algorithm may improve defensive driving
Seriously, we're poisonous: Coloration is an honest signal of toxicity in poison frogs
Video: In ancient Pompeii, trash and tombs went hand in hand
Video: Prehistoric predators with supersized teeth had beefier arm bones
Scientists crack medieval bone code
50 million year old cricket and katydid fossils hint at the origins of insect hearing
US scientists significantly more likely to publish fake research
More talk, less agreement: Risk discussion can hurt consensus-building on science/technology
Plagiarism sleuths tackle full-text biomedical articles
Call for long-term view on 'dire' funding of biological research databases
Poverty grows in suburbs, but social services don't keep up
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