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Study identifies plant chemical that determines a honey bee's caste
Sep 01, 2015 (SPX)
A closer look at how honey bee colonies determine which larvae will serve as workers and which will become queens reveals that a plant chemical, p-coumaric acid...
Physics meets biology to defeat aging
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
The scientific team of a new biotech company Gero in collaboration with one of the leading academics in the field of aging Prof. Robert J. Shmookler Reis (curre...
How plant sensors detect pathogens
Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)
In the mid-20th century, an American scientist named Harold Henry Flor helped explain how certain varieties of plants can fight off some plant killers (pathogen...
Chimpanzee in unprotected landscape is three times bigger than suspected
Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)
Two years spent collecting and analyzing eastern chimpanzee fecal samples from an unprotected region in Uganda has revealed a far larger population of the prima...
Thailand destroys ivory stockpile amid junta crackdown
Aug 26, 2015 (AFP)
Thailand destroyed more than two tonnes of ivory Wednesday -- a victory for animal rights groups fighting against the trade in a country renowned for being a hu...
Different dung beetle species use different celestial cues for navigation
Aug 25, 2015 (UPI)
Dung beetles are one of only a few insects known to use celestial cues for navigation, but until now, scientists didn't really know how they did it. New researc...
Sumatran rhino no longer found in Malaysia
Aug 25, 2015 (UPI)
Sumatran rhinoceros could once be found through India, China and Southeast Asia. Today, the range of the critically endangered species is constantly shrinking. ...
Newborn pandas 'doing well' after tense night at US zoo
Aug 24, 2015 (AFP)
The twin cubs born to the Smithsonian National Zoo's giant panda Mei Xiang were said Monday to be "doing well" after a night that had zookeepers on edge. The cu...
Earliest baboon found at Malapa
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
A team from Wits University's Evolutionary Studies Institute has discovered a fossil monkey specimen representing the earliest baboon ever found. Dating back mo...
Honey bees rapidly evolve to overcome new disease
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
An international research team has some good news for the struggling honeybee, and the millions of people who depend on them to pollinate crops and other plants...
Humans as predators: An unsustainable appetite for adults and carnivores
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
Humans are just one of many predators in this world, but a new study highlights how their intense tendency to target and kill adult prey, as well as other carni...
New research shows that hummingbird tongue is really a tiny pump
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
In a paper titled Hummingbird tongues are elastic micropumps which appears in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Alejandro Rico Guevara and Margaret Rubega...
Caught in a complex web
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
Food webs are incredibly complex networks of interactions between organisms and the things they eat. One creature's prey is another creature's predator, while s...
Environmentalists praise Pakistan ban on hunting of rare bird
Aug 20, 2015 (AFP)
Wildlife campaigners on Thursday welcomed a decision by Pakistan's Supreme Court to ban the hunting of a rare desert bird whose meat is prized among Arab sheikh...
Dogs evolved with climate change
Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)
Old dogs can teach humans new things about evolution. In Nature Communications a new study of North American dog fossils as old as 40 million years suggests tha...
Worsening wind forecasts signal stormy times ahead for seabirds
Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)
Stronger winds forecast as a result of climate change could impact on populations of wild animals, by affecting how well they can feed, a study of seabirds sugg...
Endangered Philippine eagle shot dead three years after rescue
Aug 19, 2015 (AFP)
A rare giant Philippine eagle has been shot dead two months after being released back into the wild following treatment for another shooting, in a blow to effor...
Global warming lethal to baby lizards: Nests become heat traps
Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)
The expected impact of climate change on North American lizards is much worse than first thought. A team of biologists led by Arizona State University investiga...
Firefly protein causes plant roots to glow in the dark
Aug 19, 2015 (UPI)
Studying a plant's roots isn't an easy task. Some plants have evolved elaborate root systems -- ones you can't just dig up and look at. Mesquite trees, for exam...
Bacteria's secret weapon against pesticides and antibiotics revealed
Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)
All living things need phosphate to grow, which is why several hundred million tons of phosphate fertilisers are used every year in agriculture throughout the w...
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