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Plants & Animals Apr 28, 2011

Jump in communication skills led to species explosion in electric fishes

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- Bruce Carlson stands next to a fish tank in his lab, holding a putty colored Radio Shack amplifier connected to two wires whose insulation has been stripped. At the bottom of the tank a nondescript little ...

Archaeology Mar 29, 2011

Scientists trace violent death of Iron Age man

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- An Iron Age man whose skull and brain was unearthed during excavations at the University of York was the victim of a gruesome ritual killing, according to new research.

Ecology Mar 10, 2011

American birds of prey at higher risk of poisoning from pest control chemicals

A new study by scientists from Maryland and Colorado using American kestrels, a surrogate test species for raptorial birds, suggests that they are at greater risk from poisoning from the rodenticide diphacinone than previous ...

Bio & Medicine Jan 19, 2011

Nanosponges harvest rare cancer marker from blood

Cancer researchers have long hypothesized that tumors release small amounts of proteins that could serve as earlier diagnostic indicators of cancer, but the search for such biomarkers has been hampered by the presence of ...

Plants & Animals Jan 13, 2011

100-year-old specimens help determine when avian pox hit Galapagos

A research team from across the United States and Ecuador has pinpointed 1898 as the year the avipoxvirus, or avian pox, hit the Galapagos Islands and started infecting its birds. This estimation is vital to understanding ...

Plants & Animals Oct 20, 2010

Coral algae (symbiodinium) discovered in black corals at never seen before depths

Researchers at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), an organized research unit in the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology have made a remarkable new discovery.

Environment Jun 1, 2010

After the oil spill: New research sheds light on coral susceptibility to environmental stress

Much attention has been paid to the fate of wildlife living on and above the Gulf of Mexico's surface. Now, a new research study published in the June 2010 print issue of the FASEB Journal looks toward the seafloor to explain ...

Bio & Medicine Apr 23, 2010

Nanoparticles Provide a Targeted Version of Photothermal Therapy for Cancer

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- Using easily prepared gold nanocages that are able to escape from the blood stream and accumulate in tumors, a team of investigators from the Washington University in St. Louis has shown that they can use ...

Archaeology Apr 6, 2010

New thick-shelled turtle species lived with world's biggest snake

The discovery of a new fossil turtle species in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the Florida Museum of Natural History helps to explain the ...

Archaeology Feb 22, 2010

Island of dwarf dinosaurs: 100-year-old theory confirmed

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- The idea of dwarf dinosaurs on Haţeg Island, Romania, was proposed 100 years ago by the colourful Baron Franz Nopcsa, whose family owned estates in the area. He realized that many of the Haţeg ...

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