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EMBL scientists reveal structure of nuclear pore's inner ring
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
It was a 3D puzzle with over 1000 pieces, with only a rather fuzzy outline as a guide. But scientists at EMBL have now put enough pieces in place to see the big...
Plants force fungal partners to behave fairly
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
Do plants operate according to economic criteria? They do, when they are mutualized with fungal partners that demonstrate differing degrees of cooperation. "Car...
Mechanics of the cell
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
Living cells must alter their external form actively, otherwise functions like cell division would not be possible. At the Technical University of Munich (TUM) ...
The Red Queen rules
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
Leave it to evolutionary biologists to name a theory from a line in Alice in Wonderland. In Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking Glass, the Red Queen tells ...
All ants on deck
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
A team of scientists has found that a species of ant that clusters together to form rafts to survive floods exhibits memory and repeatedly occupies the same pos...
New tool reveals role of ancestry in soil communities of bacteria
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at Northern Arizona University weighed in on the hotly debated relationship between lineage and behavior in microorganisms by using a new tool - qua...
Unveiling the withering process
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
During their life, plants constantly renew themselves. They sprout new leaves in the spring and shed them in the fall. No longer needed, damaged or dead organs ...
S.Africa won't seek to legalise rhino horn trade: govt
Apr 21, 2016 (AFP)
South Africa will not push to lift the global ban on rhino horn trading, the government said Thursday, despite pressure from some campaigners who say the ban fu...
Ivory Coast deploys rangers to protect dwarf elephants
Apr 20, 2016 (AFP)
Ivory Coast has deployed teams of rangers to protect the country's last surviving dwarf elephants from extinction, the head of the national park service told AF...
Mosquitoes: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em
Apr 19, 2016 (AFP)
Mozzies. Skeeters. Stingers. Whatever you call them, mosquitoes don't get much love from our species. And why should they? The buzzing bloodsuckers make us mise...
Tracking elephants as new railway cuts Kenya
Apr 18, 2016 (AFP)
Dangling from a helicopter with a high powered rifle, a Kenyan vet fires drugged darts at elephants to sedate them so they can be fitted with satellite collars....
Madagascar yields three new primate species
Apr 15, 2016 (UPI)
Scientists have found three new species of mouse lemur in the forests of Madagascar, a large island nation off Africa's southeastern coast. The newly named crea...
Uncovering the evolution of queen-worker differences
Apr 14, 2016 (SPX)
Queen and worker ants develop from the same sets of genes, but perform completely different ecological roles. How the same genes result in two types of individu...
Research reveals trend in bird-shape evolution on islands
Apr 14, 2016 (SPX)
In groundbreaking new work, Natalie Wright, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Montana, has discovered a predictable trend in the evolution of bird shap...
Royal couple feed baby rhinos, elephants on India safari
Apr 13, 2016 (AFP)
Britain's Prince William and Princess Kate jumped into a jeep on Wednesday for a wildlife safari that included feeding rhino and elephant calves, during the lat...
Wealth of unsuspected new microbes expands tree of life
Apr 13, 2016 (SPX)
The tree of life, which depicts how life has evolved and diversified on the planet, is getting a lot more complicated. Researchers at the University of Californ...
Study reveals how the queen ant is crowned
Apr 12, 2016 (UPI)
A group of researchers in Japan recently set out to uncover the evolution of hierarchy inside ant colonies. Why and how did a queen come be crowned? How does th...
New way to smell a rat means end for rodents
Apr 12, 2016 (SPX)
Simon Fraser University scientists have developed a new way to exterminate rats by identifying and synthetically replicating the male brown rat's sex pheromone....
Restoring ecosystems - how to learn from our mistakes
Apr 12, 2016 (SPX)
In a joint North European and North American study led by Umea researcher Christer Nilsson, a warning is issued of underdocumented results of ecological restora...
Copper sulfate found to be toxic to stingless bees
Apr 12, 2016 (SPX)
Copper sulfate has been used in agriculture since the 1800s, at least. In the U.S. it is widely used as a fungicide on organic and conventional crops, and it is...
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