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Robotic frog improves boring mating call

August 12, 2013
News
A robotic frog has aided researchers to discover that manipulated mating calls can be very attractive to female túngara frogs. Micheal Ryan and Ryan Taylor conducted the research, published in...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Computer Science, Zoology
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Electrically charged insects perfect prey for spiders

August 9, 2013
News
Spider webs take advantage of an electrical charge built up by flying insects to snare their prey suggests a researcher at University of California, Berkeley.Inspired by his four year old...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Watering your crops by phone

August 5, 2013
News
A new app has been developed which means smart phones could soon monitor irrigation water use according to need, to ensure food is produced in a sustainable way.“About 70% of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Botany
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Unlocking the structure of elusive stress receptor

July 18, 2013
News
A spin-out pharmaceutical company has visualised for the first time a complicated protein receptor in the brain which controls our response to stress.Heptares Therapeutics, formed by a Cambridge molecular biology...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Neuroscience
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Eel fluorescent protein transforms clinical assay

July 12, 2013
News
A Japanese freshwater eel called unagi possesses a fluorescent protein that could revolutionise a key clinical assay for bilirubin, a critical indicator of liver function, haemolysis and jaundice.A team from...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Zoology
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X-rays reveal ‘dinobird’ shook patterned tail feather

July 10, 2013
News
Using X-rays to complete the first chemical analysis of feathers from a fossil linking dinosaurs and birds reveals that the feathers were patterned rather than all black as was previously...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Paleobiology
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UK leads the way in ‘legal high’ analysis

July 4, 2013
News
A team at the University of Lincoln, UK, is leading the way in new research aimed at detecting the vast amount of substances available on the legal highs market.The method...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
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Coral reef skeleton can survive even in acidic oceans

July 3, 2013
News
For the first time, scientists have described the biological process of how corals create their skeletons to form massive and ecologically vital coral reefs in the world’s oceans.The team at...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Fibre-optic pen aids understanding of dyslexia

June 21, 2013
News
A fibre-optic pen developed at the University of Washington will help scientists to see inside the brains of children with learning disabilities while they read and write.The tool has been...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology, Medical Diagnostics, Neuroscience
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New layer of human cornea discovered

June 21, 2013
News
Research at University of Nottingham has uncovered a previously undetected layer in the cornea, the clear window at the front of the human eye.Detailed in Ophthalmology, the breakthrough could help...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology, Physiology
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