Two thousand new employees in a municipality were asked: “Do you know anyone in this line of work?” The various occupations were ranked in accordance with a…
How regions can cope with the consequences of natural and human-driven changes to the Earth's environment, what future changes they can expect, and what the…
“The honey bee (Apis millifera) has been called a model system for social behavior,” said Saurabh (pronounced SAW-rub) Sinha, a professor of computer science…
“Satellites orbiting Mars show us images of canyons and gullies that appear to have been created by a flood or rapid out-washing,” says Ron Peterson, Queen’s…
Based on their comparative study, the scientists say orangutans confined to part of Borneo where food supplies are frequently depleted may have evolved through…
The discovery, consisting of phosphorus-enriched soils inside what appear to be the remains of horse corrals beside pit houses, matches what would be expected…
The evidence was found in an exceptionally well preserved duck-billed dinosaur dug from the rocks of the Judith River Formation near Malta, Mont. Assistant…
“When most people think about climate change, they think of heat stress from heat waves,” said Cindy Parker, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of…
The Chicxulub impact may, in fact, have been the lesser and earlier of a series of meteors and volcanic eruptions that pounded life on Earth for more than…
Macaws, the largest members of the parrot family, have seen their numbers decline in recent decades, and that trend is continuing today. Dr. Don Brightsmith, a…
The story of the relationship between the crab and the coral is described in the November 2006 issue of the journal Coral Reefs and is now available on-line….
Researchers placed mesenchymal stem cells onto a silicone membrane that was stretched longitudinally once every second. It was a cellular workout routine that…
New research finds that every U.S Gulf Coast bay in Texas and Louisiana is vulnerable to significant flooding and expansion within the coming century due to a…
Just under three-quarters of doctors, dentists and community nurses said they were aware of some of the mechanisms of reporting child physical abuse, but 79…
The event, which took place in the Charlemagne Building of the European Commission, was aiming to be a European Forum to explore a wide range of possibilities,…
Seven Norwegian research groups, led by the research organisation SINTEF, are to find out whether a land-based laboratory of this sort can be set up.“Such a…
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