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Algae - oil of the future
Using algae to produce biofuel instead of oil is like an arrow that hits two targets: to create energy and to clean the environment.
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Large horns cause small organs to mate
The sometimes bizarre display features that increase the chance of finding animal partners also affect the reproductive process of the population as well as the evolutio…
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Discover the key to the social status of ants
The fact that an ant becomes a powerful queen or a small worker ant depends on both nature and nurturing.
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Mushrooms help beetles digest wood
According to a group of entomologists and biochemists, a small, little-known fungus in the gut of Asian long-horned beetles has helped them chew the hardest wood.
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why do the butterflies have their eyespots?
Some butterflies often carry symmetrical circular spots on their wings. It is thought that the eye spot terrifies the enemy by imitating the eyes of the enemy.
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Strange fish 'objections' smart design
Discover the lost link in the evolutionary chain of bizarre flatfish (they have both eyes on one side of the head) that can wobble smart design advocates.
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Is motor mobility innate?
Studies on mice have partly shown that genes affect active or lazy activity.
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Color of insects with anti-cancer drugs and tropical diseases
According to researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, the beetle-colored beetles or butterfly-colored larvae may signal chemical compounds t…
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The sick bee is not humming
British researchers say the buzz of bees decreases when they are sick, and like humans, they have a lot of trouble doing everyday tasks until they recover.
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Super strong jaws
A sea worm with a stronger jaw than teeth is suggesting to scientists about a super-durable material in the future.
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Evolutionary defense system in earring plants
There is a saying that the enemy understands your weakest point very right in the case of leafy plants and creatures that evolve: When plant eaters develop a new offensi…
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Gene loss makes gay male flies homosexual
Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have recently discovered that male fruit flies lack genes that regulate the body's ability to perceive a particular odor.
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Parasitic plants outperform predators in estuarine areas
In a study of free parasitic species at three estuaries on the Pacific coast in California and Baja California, a team of researchers from the University of California,…
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The imaging system sheds light on the origin of cancer
MIT biologists have developed a descriptive system that allows cells to undergo a certain mutation.
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Climate change and flooding create biodiversity in the Amazon
The climate changes the Ice Age and the ancient flood, not the barrier barriers, may have pushed the evolution of new insects appeared in the Amazon jungle region of Sou…