For the male canary, the ability to sing a pitch-perfect song is critical to wooing female canaries. As the seasons change, so does song quality and frequency. The hormone testosterone plays a role in this changing song behavior. ...
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It's taken nearly 200 years,but scientists in Arizona and Europe have teased out how the molecular switch for sex gradually and adaptively evolved in the honeybee. The first genetic mechanism for sex determination was proposed in the ...
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By the time they're two, most children have had respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and suffered symptoms no worse than a bad cold. But for some children, especially premature babies and those with underlying health conditions, RSV can lead ...
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Leslie Wu, a doctoral student in computer science at Stanford, took an appropriately high-tech approach to presenting her poem "Say 23" at the first Stanford Code Poetry Slam. Wu wore Google Glass as she typed 16 lines of computer code ...
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The mechanism by which some bacteria are able to survive antibacterial treatment has been revealed for the first time by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers. Their work could pave the way for new ways to control such bacteria. In ...
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What kind of telephone activity does the NSA collect on people? Metadata. How harmful is it to your privacy health? Nada. It is only metadata. That has been the line drawn in the sand by government supporters of NSA activities in monitoring ...
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Israeli researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) said a security flaw was discovered by a team member, a PhD student, and that this vulnerability could enable interception of data on Samsung mobile devices based on the Knox ...
One of the biggest questions in science is how life arose from the chemical soup that existed on early Earth. One theory is that RNA, a close relative of DNA, was the first genetic molecule to arise around 4 billion years ago, but in a ...
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Rheumatoid arthritis patients can generally look forward to a much better quality of life today than they did 20 years ago, new research suggests. The observation is based on a comparative multi-year tracking of more than 1,100 rheumatoid ...
A recently discovered, aggressive strain of HIV leads to faster development of AIDS than other HIV strains, according to a new study. More than 60 epidemic strains of HIV-1 exist. This new strain has the shortest period from infection to ...
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If Johnny doesn't take to the violin, don't fret. A new study challenges the widely held belief that music lessons can help boost children's intelligence. "More than 80 percent of American adults think that music improves children's ...
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When it comes to factors affecting children's school performance, DNA may trump home life or teachers, a new British study finds. "Children differ in how easily they learn at school. Our research shows that differences in students' ...
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Diners attending the Jan. 11 Empty Bowls dinner at New Buffalo Middle/High School will have a choice between student-made clay bowls and decorated glass models. High school students in art teacher Randy Veldman’s class, with ...
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Women who are happy with their bodies are better able to maintain a happy relationship, a new study finds. The researchers' survey also found that women who are satisfied with their current relationship tend to be fine with their weight ...
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Highly adept typists actually have trouble identifying positions of many of the keys on a standard QWERTY keyboard, researchers say, suggesting there's much more to typing than rote learning. The new study "demonstrates that we're capable ...
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