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featured Plants bloom earlier in Canada

Scientists in Canada have recorded temperatures for the 71-year peiod from 1936 to 2006, and have seen that mean monthly temperatures have increased enough to provide what they call a...

On Jul 07, 2011 by Gracie Valena 0 Comments

Dangerous liaisons - how Ireland's brown bears shaped polar bear evolution

Scientists working with bear DNA, both modern and ancient, have reconstructed a storied past for polar and brown bears. It's a narrative that has seen repeated migrations in the face...

On Jul 07, 2011 by Martin Leggett 0 Comments

Hotspots driving tectonic plate movement

Plate tectonics has been on the curriculum for a while now. Most people are fairly familiar with the theory; the Earth's crust - or lithosphere - is broken up into...

On Jul 06, 2011 by Ruth Hendry 0 Comments

Gray whales cruised through Ice Age on krill and herring

Conservationists are often dealing with a moving target - things are changing ever faster on the ground, as climate change and habitat loss proceeds apace. But understanding how endangered animals...

On Jul 06, 2011 by Martin Leggett 0 Comments

Australian volcanoes overdue an eruption warn scientists

The people of Australia have been warned that volcanoes in Western Victoria and South Australia are overdue for eruptions potentially affecting thousands of people. A team from the University of...

On Jul 06, 2011 by Colin Ricketts 0 Comments

Minuscule water boatman boasts loudest shout of them all

What's the loudest noisemaker in the animal kingdom? The deep-throated roar of a male lion? The earth-shattering bellow of a bull elephant? Or the ocean-crossing siren-song of the blue whale?...

On Jul 01, 2011 by Martin Leggett 0 Comments

How urchins see when they have no eyes

It sounds like the set-up to a joke: how does an animal with no eyes see? Researchers from Sweden trying to answer that question have found that the answer when...

On Jul 01, 2011 by Colin Ricketts 0 Comments

Call in the army to protect Great Lakes from carp invasion says study

Academics don't often call for less study, but experts on the Great Lakes in North America warn that unless radical action is taken quickly, Asian carp will cause terrible damage...

On Jul 01, 2011 by Colin Ricketts 0 Comments

Tarantula in the scanner unveils its double-beating heart

The magic of MRI is revealing some of the inner workings of living, crawling spiders, showing how the blood flows through the arachnid circulatory system. The non-invasive scanning technology has...

On Jul 01, 2011 by Martin Leggett 0 Comments

DNA tests unravel a tricky tortoise mystery

The desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, has been suffering some serious identity problems. Luckily, Professor Robert Murphy's crack team of scientists were on hand to employ some police-esque forensic tactics to...

On Jun 29, 2011 by Ruth Hendry 0 Comments

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