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Elephants, Rhinoceroses and Aurochs Once Roamed Around Freely in The Forests of Europe
Mar 7, 2014Elephants, rhinoceroses and aurochs once roamed around freely in the forests of Europe, while hippopotamuses lived in rivers such as the Thames and the Rhine. New research shows how we can use knowledge about the past to restore a varied ...
Tags: Large Mammals, Prehistoric Ecosystems, restore a varied landscape
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Laboratory Studies Show That Inbreeding Reduces Fitness
Feb 27, 2014A biologist at the University of York is part of an international team which has shown that advanced DNA sequencing technologies can be used to accurately measure the levels of inbreeding in wild animal populations. The research by senior ...
Tags: DNA Advance, Dutch beach, PNAS, animal population
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RMIT University Researchers Have Developed The World's First Liquid Metal Enabled Pump
Feb 27, 2014RMIT University researchers in Melbourne, Australia, have developed the world's first liquid metal enabled pump, a revolutionary new micro-scale device with no mechanical parts. The unique design will enable micro-fluidics and ...
Tags: PNAS, Liquid Metal Pump, Micro-Fluidic, Lab-on-a-chip system
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Fungal Infections by Organisms Such Candida Play an Increasingly Significant Role
Feb 26, 2014A University of Otago, New Zealand, research breakthrough from the Sir John Walsh Research Institute is helping pave the way for novel antifungal drugs designed to overcome the world-wide problem of growing resistance to current treatments. ...
Tags: Aids, Drug Resistance, expand the array of antifungal treatments
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Modern Herring Management Needs to Take a Longer Look Into The Past to Manage Fisheries
Feb 18, 2014Archaeological data indicate modern herring management needs to take a longer look into the past to manage fisheries for the future says a new study involving Simon Fraser University researchers. That is one of the key findings in the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Complex Life Does Not Need High Levels of Oxygen in Order to Live and Grow
Feb 17, 2014One of science's strongest dogmas is that complex life on Earth could only evolve when oxygen levels in the atmosphere rose to close to modern levels. But now studies of a small sea sponge fished out of a Danish fjord shows that complex ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Scientists at The University of California,San Diego Have Developed a New Genetic Platform
Jan 22, 2014Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new genetic platform that allows efficient production of naturally occurring molecules, and have used it to produce a novel antibiotic compound. Their study, published ...
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How Does The General Appearance of The Package Impact Buying Decisions of Consumers?
Jan 8, 2014The left image shows actual eye movements of two different persons choosing among four snack items as recorded with eye-tracking. Number "1" indicates where the first eye movement is made to. The right image shows predicted eye movements ...
Tags: package, consumers, buying decisions, images of food items
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The Studies' Findings Are Relevant for Viruses Causing Poliomyelitis
Jan 2, 2014On average, each of us catches a cold two to three times a year. However, how the common cold virus actually infects us is only partly understood. Researchers from the Max F. Perutz Laboratories of the Medical University of Vienna and the ...
Tags: common cold virus, infection
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The Results of a Field Trial with Genetically Modified Poplar Trees in Zwijnaarde, Belgium
Jan 2, 2014The results of a field trial with genetically modified poplar trees in Zwijnaarde, Belgium, shows that the wood of lignin modified poplar trees can be converted into sugars in a more efficient way. These sugars can serve as the starting ...
Tags: genetically modified poplar trees, wood of lignin, bio-based products
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Much Larger Humans Often Face a Difficult Pregnancy and Delivery?
Jan 2, 2014How can the tiny marmoset – a New World monkey – regularly successfully bear twins and sometimes triplets and quadruplets when much larger humans often face a difficult pregnancy and delivery? The answer, said researchers led ...
Tags: tiny marmoset, pregnancy, genetic changes, twin gestation
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The Enzyme Manufacture The Hormone Melatonin to Roughly 500 Million Years Ago
Dec 30, 2013An international team of scientists led by National Institutes of Health researchers has traced the likely origin of the enzyme needed to manufacture the hormone melatonin to roughly 500 million years ago. Their work indicates that this ...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, origin of the enzyme, hormone melatonin
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If Grassland Is Managed Intensively, Biodiversity Typically Declines
Dec 27, 2013If grassland is managed intensively, biodiversity typically declines. A new study led by Bernese plant ecologists shows that it is rare species that suffer the most. These negative effects could be reduced, if farmers varied the intensity ...
Tags: grassland, biodiversity, intensity of land, land-use intensity
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The Medical Device Industry Could Be Impacted in a Significant Way.
Dec 6, 2013If rare earth metals become even more scarce than they are today, the medical device industry could be impacted in a significant way. But according to a paper published in PNAS (via Ars Technica), not much can be done to overcome a shortage ...
Tags: Rare Earth Metal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
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Research on Activating a Switch Simply by Shining Light on It
Nov 12, 2013Microvehicles and other devices that can change shape or move with no power source other than a beam of light may be possible through research led by the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. The researchers are ...
