News articles tagged with 'animal'
New on-off 'switch' triggers and reverses paralysis in animals with a beam of light
— 19 Nov 2009 17:53 | ChemistryIn an advance with overtones of Star Trek phasers and other sci-fi ray guns, scientists in Canada are reporting development of an internal on-off 'switch' that paralyses animals when... — full story
Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brains
— 18 Nov 2009 10:25 | BiologyTiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London... — full story
Funny, you don't look related
— 15 Nov 2009 16:06 | BiologyWhen Charles Darwin visited the Falkland Islands during the voyage of the Beagle in 1835, he saw a wolf-like species, wrote about it in his diaries and correctly commented that it was... — full story
Joint forces to prevent extinction of smallest rhino in the world
— 15 Nov 2009 14:26 | BiologyInternational scientists and zoo experts started together with Malaysian governmental and conservation organisations an extensive programme to protect the Sabah rhino... — full story
Skunk's strategy not just black and white
— 12 Nov 2009 09:35 | BiologyPredators with experience of skunks avoid them both because of their black-and-white coloration and their distinctive body shape, according to UC Davis wildlife researcher Jennifer... — full story
Warm-blooded dinosaurs worked up a sweat
— 11 Nov 2009 13:28 | Geology and palaeontologyWere dinosaurs endothermic (warm-blooded) like present-day mammals and birds or ectothermic (cold-blooded) like present-day lizards? Reporting in PLoS ONE, Herman Pontzer at Washington... — full story
A motley collection of boneworms
— 11 Nov 2009 11:53 | BiologyIt sounds like a classic horror story - eyeless, mouthless worms lurk in the dark, settling onto dead animals and sending out green 'roots' to devour their bones. In fact, such worms... — full story
Advance growing animal penile erectile tissue in lab may benefit patients
— 10 Nov 2009 17:25 | HealthIn an advance that could one day enable surgeons to reconstruct and restore function to damaged or diseased penile tissue in humans, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical... — full story
Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed
— 8 Nov 2009 12:18 | BiologyResearchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in... — full story
Scientists launch effort to sequence the DNA of 10,000 vertebrates
— 5 Nov 2009 12:50 | BiologyScientists have an ambitious new strategy for untangling the evolutionary history of humans and their biological relatives: Create a genetic menagerie made of the DNA of more than 10,000... — full story