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Key fungus species help explain mysterious bat disease

September 18, 2013
Researchers have identified what might be the key to unravelling the mystery of White Nose Syndrome (WNS) – the distinctive fungus that is associated with the death of North American...

Robotic frog improves boring mating call

August 12, 2013
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...

Electrically charged insects perfect prey for spiders

August 9, 2013
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...

Eel fluorescent protein transforms clinical assay

July 12, 2013
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...

Coral reef skeleton can survive even in acidic oceans

July 3, 2013
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...

Coral reefs could be saved by geoengineering

June 17, 2013
At-risk tropical coral reefs could be bought time by limiting the amount of warming experienced by the world’s oceans in the future suggest Bristol University researchers. The scientists used computer...

Alligator’s smile provides tooth regeneration clues

June 12, 2013
Scientists are studying alligators in order to potentially understand how to stimulate tooth regeneration in humans. The global researcher team led by Keck School of Medicine of the USC has...

Flight of the bumblebee

April 19, 2013
A bumblebee is more stable when it is flying quickly, rather than hovering at slow speeds suggests research published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.Researchers in China used a mathematical...

Hopping back to the gene pool

April 3, 2013
Scientists have revitalised the genome of an extinct Australian frog using sophisticated cloning technology.Using somatic nuclear transfer, the Lazarus Project team is closer than ever to bringing the Rheobatrachus silus...

Sockeye salmon migrates magnetically

March 18, 2013
The sockeye salmon uses a magnetic map to return to its spawning ground after navigating across thousands of miles of open ocean, according to 56 years of data analysed at...

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