History Of The Rainforest Told In Song
... They looked asthough they were ready to beat the hell out of the intruder. "But when we played them the song from a different place, they just ignored it -as if it had been the song of another bird species." The picture that is emerging from Dr. Westcott's analysis of birdsong is of theupland/cool rainf...Rare Fossil Shows Theropod Dinosaurs Are Fast, Dangerous 'Turbocharged' Reptiles
... conserve energy much of the time and then go like hell whenever theywanted to. That might go a long way towards explaining why they were able todominate mammals for 150 million years." Geist and OSU colleague Terry Jones made these observations after studyin Salerno, Italy, of a fossil first dis...Rare Fossil Shows Dinosaurs As Fast, Dangerous
...d conserve energy much of the time andthen go like hell whenever they wanted to. That might go a long way towardsexplaining why they were able to dominate mammals for 150 million years." Geist and OSU colleague Terry Jones made these observations after studyin Salerno, Italy of a fossil first disc...Nature's path leads scientists to new antibiotic strategy
...upt the bacterial membrane. When that happens, all hell breaks loose with the bacterium," Gellman said. This mechanism of thwarting bacterial infection is different from that employed by traditional antibiotics like penicillins, for example, suggesting that it might take a very long time for bacteria ...Wisconsin lake study shows persistence of acid rain effects
...e effects of acid rain, has been taken to chemical hell and back, and seemingly recovered from the trip. The University of Wisconsin-Madison study, spanning two decades, found that while the chemistry of the lake corrected itself naturally - and fairly quickly -- the biological changes took much longer ...Monogamy appears to be unnatural in the natural world
...e are a lot of reasons for adultery and it takes a hell of a lot of diligence to stay monogamous." Barash said numerous recent studies have shown that many animals and birds, such as eagles, geese, beavers and gibbons, previously believed to be faithfully monogamous aren't. "A lot of hanky-panky i......ut, if you wave and shout, chances are better that hell pay attention.) Researchers are now hard at work building computer programs that can function in the same way. Now theres a camera in the works that uses a computer simulation of this specific brain process, and is close to mimicking it. Funded by...Intelligent design: The new 'big tent' for evolution's critics
...munity, and they don't have a snowball's chance in hell of doing that." But the likelihood that intelligent design theory will make inroads into the public science classroom and into textbooks is good, Numbers believes. "It is very likely to influence science teaching. Intelligent design doesn't talk abou...