Wednesday, May 12, 2010

New Family of Jellyfish Discovered off the Coast of Tasmania

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Researchers from the Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery in Launceston and the South Australian Museum ...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Wonder Dam Built by Beavers

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This post is at the behest of Narain my friend from Wynad. Narain is one of those guys who believe sm...
Friday, May 07, 2010

Cleaning Sewage and Generating Power Using Bacteria

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Fundamental discoveries by scientists have sometimes the potential to revolutionize our lives. Here i...
Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Bee Research- Amazing Serendipity

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I n a rare coincidence, researchers working in Turkey and Iran discovered on the same day how a rare species of bee Osima (Ozbekosima) avos...
Monday, May 03, 2010

Mammoths and their Anti-freeze Blood

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Under usual circumstances the ability of haemoglobin to release oxygen to the body's tissues is i...
Friday, April 30, 2010

The Role of Isolation in Speciation: New findings

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New research by Professor Roger Thorpe and colleagues Yann Surget-Groba and Helena Johansson, at Ban...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Snails to the Rescue of Gorillas

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Cross River gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla diehli ), a subspecies of the western gorilla was thought to be...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Prickly pear Cactus, the Amazing Water Purifier

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A few days back we wrote about water purification using Moringa ( Moringa oleifera) . On the heels of...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Hermit Crabs and their Social Networking

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May/June 2010 issue of the journal Behavioral Ecology available online, charmed me no end. It has so...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

A Conservation Therapy Programme from Scotland

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Scotland's chief medical officer, Dr Harry Burns, is plumbing for a new prescription to improve t...
Friday, April 23, 2010

New Genetic Evidence Supporting the Theory there are Several Species of Killer Whales

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The latest issue of the journal Genome Research , has an article where scientists report finding stro...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

New Caledonian Crows put up an Amazing Display

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Till now we thought that the ability to fashion tools are unique to primates. Here comes a surprise f...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

The Science Behind the Raising of the Hood by Cobras.

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The latest issue Journal of Experimental Biology has some fascinating information about the science b...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Birds making a comeback thanks to farmers

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When rare birds make a comeback due to efforts of farmers it is great news. Usually we hear about disappearance of birds due to the activiti...
Monday, April 12, 2010

The State of World’s Mangroves

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Coastal development, logging, agriculture, and climate change are proving to be the nemesis of mangro...
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Saturday, April 10, 2010

The Lemur that Came Back from Oblivion

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Research is a primary component in conservation. Here is yet another example of constant research hel...
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Thursday, April 08, 2010

The Eel Mystery

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A study on eel study published in the online edition of the Journ...
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Monday, April 05, 2010

All plantations Need Not Necessarily be 'Biological Desserts’

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Forest plantations have acquired a bad reputation over the years. They are branded as 'Biological...
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Sunday, April 04, 2010

Toads and Precognition

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The latest issue of Journal of Zoology has a very interesting paper on the ability of Common toads t...
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