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Recently, Dr. Bang Do from Hubei University, China and his colleagues published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology their discoveries that help explain why female spi…
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Alarming the decline of old trees
The largest trees in the world are dying: The mortality rate of trees aged 100-300 years is growing alarmingly.
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Detecting plants with horse-ear leaves in Vietnam
Dr. Vu Quang Nam, botanist of Forestry University, discovered a new tree species in the historical monument of Vo Nguyen Giap, Muong Phang commune, Dien Bien district, D…
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Found Ebola virus in Kalimantan orangutan
Scientists at the Center for Research on Avian Influenza, Airlangga University in Surabaya, East Java province, Indonesia, have reported the discovery of Ebola vius in s…
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Plants know how to swim to avoid enemies
Susanne Menden-Deuer, a marine expert at the University of Rhode Island in the US, and her colleagues observed Heterosigma akashiwo, a microalgae, in the lab. Livescienc…
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Research high yielding seeds
It is forecasted that by 2030, the world will have more than 2 billion people. Therefore, providing enough food for mankind is something that scientists concern.
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Bee cuckoo
Scientists have discovered that new bees with unique biological behavior are invading the nest of other bees to lay eggs. This behavior is only seen in the cuckoo, so th…
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Sunbathing insects to prevent disease
Paul Boxelder often concentrates in groups to sunbathe in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Given that this phenomenon is unusual, biologists from Simon Fraser U…
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Find the common ancestor of every species on Earth
Dr. William Duax and colleagues at the University of Buffalo in New York (USA) have created a new evolutionary tree by comparing proteins from genes of organisms stored…
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Bacteria from marine algae - new weapons to prevent cavities effectively
It was a surprising finding by scientists at the University of Newcastle (UK), while they were studying the bacterial strain of marine algae called Bacillus licheniformi…
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Tomato 'clean' protects health very well
Research by the University of Barcelona (Spain) found that
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Flowers bloom faster because of climate change
According to research by scientists at California San Diego University and a number of other research institutes in the US, the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atm…
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Can trees flirt each other?
Biologists at Northern Australia University, in Perth under the guidance of Dr. Monica Gagliano and colleagues at Bristol University, UK, studied this issue. They used h…
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Japan has successfully grown a low-absorbing variety of Cadmium
The American Plant Cell magazine recently reported that researchers at Okayama University, Japan, have successfully cultivated a rice variety that hardly absorbs Cadmium…
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Stunned art of cockroaches
Robot lab at the University of California (USA) uses slow-speed camcorders to secretly record roaches of cockroaches. They found that the insect used its hind legs to cl…