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Researchers Discovered a 'microbial Pompeii' Preserved on The Teeth of Skeletons
Feb 23, 2014An international team of researchers have discovered a 'microbial Pompeii' preserved on the teeth of skeletons around 1,000 years old. The key to the discovery is the dental calculus (plaque) which preserves bacteria and microscopic ...
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Researchers Have Deciphered The Structure of Part of The Ribosome Found in Mitochondria
Jan 24, 2014Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have deciphered the structure of part of the ribosome found in mitochondria, the power plants of the cell. The scientists were able to benefit from advancements in the field ...
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Pioneering Study Debunked The Discovery of Y Chromosome That Supposedly Predated Humanity
Jan 22, 2014Our most common male ancestor walked the earth 209,000 years ago – earlier than scientists commonly thought - according to new research from the University of Sheffield. The pioneering study, conducted by Dr Eran Elhaik from the ...
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Previous Studies Have Documented Local Overfishing of Some Populations of Sharks and Rays
Jan 22, 2014One quarter of the world's cartilaginous fish, namely sharks and rays, face extinction within the next few decades, according to the first study to systematically and globally assess their fate. The International Union for Conservation of ...
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Biologists Have Studied The Functionality of a Poorly Understood Category of Genes
Jan 20, 2014Biologists have studied the functionality of a poorly understood category of genes, which produce long non-coding RNA molecules rather than proteins. Some of these genes have been conserved throughout evolution, and are present in 11 ...
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A New Species of Big Cat That Is Most Closely Related to The Modern Day Snow Leopard
Jan 9, 2014After years of sleuthing for clues about where and when pantherine felids ("big cats") originated, a Smithsonian scientist and an international team of researchers are one step closer to understanding the evolutionary history of these ...
Tags: pantherine felids, big cats, Smithsonian scientist, evolutionary history
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A LéVy Walk Describes The Foraging Behavior of Animals From Sharks to Honey Bees
Dec 26, 2013A mathematical pattern of movement called a Lévy walk describes the foraging behavior of animals from sharks to honey bees, and now for the first time has been shown to describe human hunter-gatherer movement as well. The study, led ...
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The Colour of Night-Time Skyglow May Be About to Undergo a Radical Change Worldwide
Aug 10, 2012The colour of night-time skyglow may be about to undergo a radical change worldwide, according to scientists of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries. They predict that with ...
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