New research led by the University of Leicester has overturned a long-standing theory on how vertebrates evolved their eyes by identifying remarkable details of the retina in the eyes of 300 million year-old lamprey and hagfish ...
Archaeology
Aug 2, 2016
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University of Utah anthropologists counted the number of carbon-dated artifacts at archaeological sites and concluded that a population boom and scarce food explain why people in eastern North America domesticated plants ...
Other
Aug 2, 2016
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new 'route planner' tool that could help conservationists aid the movement of species as they adapt to a changing climate.
Ecology
Aug 2, 2016
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Earlier this year, scientists used zebra finches to pinpoint the gene that enables birds to produce and display the colour red.
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2016
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A genetic mutation may have helped modern humans adapt to smoke exposure from fires and perhaps sparked an evolutionary advantage over their archaic competitors, including Neandertals, according to a team of researchers.
Evolution
Aug 2, 2016
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Apple is disarming—or at least it's dumping an emoji that depicts a realistic-looking revolver and replacing it with a brightly colored toy water pistol instead.
Internet
Aug 2, 2016
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We learn a lot about objects by manipulating them: poking, pushing, prodding, and then seeing how they react.
Computer Sciences
Aug 2, 2016
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There is new evidence that the "mother's curse" - the possibility that moms may transmit genes to their children that harm their sons but not their daughters - holds true in animals.
Biotechnology
Aug 2, 2016
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A handful of hopeful moose hunters visited the Vermont Statehouse on Tuesday and joined top Fish and Wildlife biologists and others hunters across the state in listening to a live radio broadcast that revealed the dwindling ...
Ecology
Aug 2, 2016
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A Georgia man pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge Tuesday, admitting participating in a computer hacking scheme that used facts stolen from over 150,000 press releases to generate $30 million in illegal profits.
Security
Aug 2, 2016
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