Birds show superior listening skills
... just slightly better than rats. "It's amazing how dissimilar the results of this test are when you compare humans and birds," said Dr. Chris Sturdy, a psychology professor at the University of Alberta. "Humans and rats are weak by any standard, and they're just awful when you compare them to the songbirds." Fo...Rice wins $5m to probe social evolution using latest genetic tools
...mann have shown how groups of amoebae that contain dissimilar genes compete within the colony to gain a reproductive advantage. "The genetic tools and simplicity of sociality in social amoebae make it easier to study the processes of cooperation and conflict that also operate in other organisms," said Strassman...First step along possible new avenue of cancer research reported
...orting a cell's outer membrane in a manner not too dissimilar from the way the metal ribs buttress an umbrella. The Georgetown researchers observed that mice with malfunctioning beta-spectrin genes had many defects in the embryonic development of the heart, brain and other organs. Surprisingly, they found tha...Some animals can recognize degree of kinship by scent
...had been worn by men either genetically similar or dissimilar to them, most women preferred the shirts worn by men with dissimilar genes," Mateo notes. "We should not be surprised to find kin-recognition abilities in a cross secti...Satellites tracking climate changes
...ift Valley Fever (RVF) and Ebola. The diseases are dissimilar -Ebola only afflicts people in tropical forest areas, while RVF is deadly to livestock and occasionally to people in semi-arid regions. But both are more likely to spread when the right climatic conditions exist-conditions which can be observed by sa...Clean water for Nepal is focus of MIT research
...nation due to poor sanitary practices. "Its not so dissimilar from what went on in cities like Paris and Boston 100 or 150 years ago." Over the last few years Murcott has created a collection of water-treatment systems that could be appropriate for developing countries. Key criteria: technical performance, "low...New fish species discovered in Murray-Darling Basin
...specimens form the same pattern, while genetically dissimilar animals produce patterns that are conspicuously different. "As far as we know, the other populations of the Yarra Pygmy Perch are all distinct genetically," said Mr Hammer, "But we're looking at that during the next couple of months. That will help u...Offspring of men with birth defects twice as likely to have defects, too
...eneration risk also appeared higher - at least for dissimilar birth defects - than for the offspring of mothers ... they had no explanation for the increased rate of dissimilar effects. In the study, boys with birth defects had a lower-than-normal survival rate to age 20....Common mode of action likely in gene-activation molecules linked to cancers
...hat of several molecules with related function but dissimilar composition. The comparison revealed unanticipated structural similarities, suggesting the molecules likely share a common mode of action, whatever their chemical dissimilarities. The new findings are reported in the November issue of Molecular Cell,...Particulate matter causing air pollution
...surements. compare and contrast similar and dissimilar PM measurements. evaluate the precision, accuracy and completeness of information that can be gainedfrom the planned EPA network of Super Sites. evaluate the scientific information gained by combining variousindependent and compleme......The structure of this molecule shows that a widely dissimilar virus, a virusthat everybody thought was very different from the other group, ends up in facthaving remarkable similarities," says virologist Robert A. Lamb, an investigatorin the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Northwestern and one of two seniora...