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Sweets Make Young Horses Harder To Train, Study Finds
Young horses may be easier
to train if they temporarily
lay off the sweets, says a
Montana State University
study. ... > full story
Invasion Of Comb Jellyfish
In the waters surrounding
Woods Hole, Massachusetts,
the warty comb jelly,
Mnemiopsis ledyi, lives out
its days, bumping against
eel grass and collecting
small crustaceans with its
... > full story
Big-brained Animals Evolve Faster
Ecologists and evolutionary
biologists analyzed body
size measures of 7,209
species of birds and found
that avian families that
have experienced the
greatest diversification in
... > full story
Robot With A Biological Brain: New Research Provides Insights Into How The Brain Works
Researchers in the UK have
developed a robot which is
controlled by a biological
brain formed from cultured
neurons -- the first step to
... > full story
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Is It Too Late To Save The Great Migrations?
August 14, 2008 — Long gone are the days when hundreds of thousands of bison grazed the Great Plains, millions of passenger pigeons darkened the skies while migrating to and from their breeding grounds, and some 12.5 ... > full story -
Smells Like Bees' Spirit: Response To Pheromone Changes According To Situation
August 13, 2008 — When bumblebees return to the nest from a successful foraging mission, they produce a pheromone which encourages their nest mates to also go out and find food. Scientists had originally thought that ... > full story -
Capturing Deer Safely With Minimal Trauma Using New Apparatus
August 10, 2008 — A new portable device allows researchers to humanely trap deer and other wildlife as part of field studies to control ticks and other ... > full story -
How Whales And Other Marine Mammals React To Sonar
August 9, 2008 — Marine biologists have just completed a pioneering research effort in Hawaii to measure the biology and behavior of some of the most poorly understood whales on Earth. During the study, for the first ... > full story -
Tuning In To A New Language On The Fly: Effects Of Context And Seasonality On Songbird Brain
August 9, 2008 — New research has shown that exposure to a changed acoustic and social environment can rewire the way the brain processes sounds. Study of the responses of individual brain cells has shown that they ... > full story -
Entomologists Use 'Love Potion' To Detect Hidden Cerambycid Beetles
August 7, 2008 — Pest cerambycids can cause severe damage to standing trees, logs and lumber. How then might they be promptly detected and their numbers swiftly controlled? The new discovery of inexpensive blends of ... > full story -
Bee's Future As Queen Or Worker May Rest With Parasitic Fly
July 31, 2008 — Strange things are happening in the lowland tropical forests of Panama and Costa Rica. A tiny parasitic fly is affecting the social behavior of a nocturnal bee, helping to determine which individuals ... > full story -
What Do Squid Hear? Scientists Learn How Sensitive The Translucent Animals Are To Noise
July 31, 2008 — The ocean is a noisy place. Although we don't hear much when we stick our heads underwater, the right instruments can reveal a symphony of sound. The noisemakers range from the low-frequency bass ... > full story -
Symbiotic Microbes Induce Profound Genetic Changes In Their Hosts
July 30, 2008 — Though bacteria are everywhere -- from the air we breathe and the food we eat to our guts and skin -- the vast majority are innocuous or even beneficial, and only a handful pose any threat to us. ... > full story -
Lost An Appendage? Grow Another
July 30, 2008 — Cut off one finger from a salamander and one will grow back. Cut off two and two will grow back. It sounds logical, but how the salamander always regenerates the right number of fingers is still a ... > full story
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