Monogamy appears to be unnatural in the natural world
...quent calls psychiatrists get in the middle of the night are from people who have discovered adultery," said Lipton. "Infidelity crises in marriage is very common, almost like a bad case of the marital flu. People who discover it are outraged, grief-stricken and angry. People who have been cheated on ca...Report: auto accidents involving deer still increasing across North Carolina
...er. "We recommend that people drive slower at night where deer are likely to be, and if you see one ru...hope drivers will be especially careful driving at night and on secondary roads." N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles' records enable the UNC-CH scientists ...DNA research reveals new bird species in Colorado
Neither a tree-dweller nor a night bird, and roughly the size of a chicken, the Gunnison sage-grouse is not a particularly secretive bird yet just recently has it been identified as a new species of bird. The collaborative research designating the bird as a new species was conducted b...... at night. If the mice experienced a regular day / night lighting scheme and were offered food around the clock, they ate almost all their meals during the night, indicating that the central clock stimulated by light can regulate feeding behavior. Then the mice were kept at the same lighting scheme but fed...Fossil teeth of extinct North American rhinos reveal an aquatic lifestyle similar to modern hippos
...water all day and only leave the water to graze at night when it's cool and humid," Koch said. "When we analyzed oxygen isotope compositions in fossil hippo teeth, we saw the same thing." But when Bruce MacFadden at the University of Florida applied this technique to Teleoceras several years ago, he foun...Study indicates certain rules underlie calling behavior of bullfrogs
...archers also found that frogs actively calling one night may be quiet the next. In some sense, ... researchers found that a male who is a caller one night may become a satellite the next night. Once again, its as if they are taking turns, Simm...Mutations in the ABCR gene are an overwhelming cause of inherited vision loss
...s pigmentosa, a common vision disorder that causes night blindness and visual field constriction; cone-rod dystrophy, a vision disorder where the photoreceptors that detect color (cones) degenerate; and age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of acquired visual impairment in the elderly. ...Estrogen lifts mood in perimenopause
...ormone's known ability to reduce hot flushes. The night sweats, experienced by most perimenopausal women, often disturb sleep and may worsen mood, thus confounding assessment of the hormone's antidepressant properties. Might estrogen simply afford a good night's sleep? To find out, Schmidt and Rubinow st...Fall 2000 meeting of the American Geophysical Union
...asp ]. Rates for singles vary from $81 to $140 per night at the 17 hotels in the program. Their distance from the Moscone Center ranges from one block to six miles. You are urged to book your hotel room early in order to secure the location or price range you prefer. The deadline for online registration at...Ancient feathered animal challenges dinosaur-bird link
... a very old animal with feathers. We stayed up all night in a vacant store in the mall to study it." About another year of research in collaboration with some of the world's leading experts convinced the scientists they were looking at the oldest fossils ever found that showed an animal with feathe...Lutein supplements may improve vision
...ve RP, a condition that, over time, causes loss of night vision andperipheral vision. Patients with severe RP eventually lose all their sight....Shedding light on luminescence: Scientists visualize structure of the photoprotein aequorin
...nyone who's spent time at a beach on a warm summer night has seen them: luminescing ctenophores that twinkle like tiny stars in moonlit waters. No one knows exactly why these comb jellies flicker and glow, but Marine Biological Laboratory (Cape Cod, Massachusetts) senior scientist Osamu Shimomura now know...New UNC analysis of N.C. accident records shows growth in motor vehicle-deer crashes
.... "Still, we recommend that people drive slower at night where deer are likely to be, and if you see one run across the road, slow down because usually others are in the vicinity." N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles' records are useful because they enable researchers to study police narratives via computer a...Researchers identify unique circadian rhythm photoreceptor
...e internal clock goes haywire, losing all sense of night and day. Fruit flies exhibit the same reaction, and humans are predicted to respond similarly. In the laboratories of Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Michael Rosbash and Jeffrey Hall at Brandeis University, however, there is a strain o...Dominant birds stay leaner than their subordinates, study finds
...o less far into hypothermia at night because it has more energy for metabolism," Grubb said. "Hypothermia is thought to be a cost, because it makes a bird less aware of its surroundings, therefore increasing its vulnerability t...Photoreceptor gene mutations cause degenerative eye disease
...sitive to blue light and susceptible to developing night blindness at an early age. A research team led b...ease of the retina. Patients with ESCS suffer from night blindness and increased sensitivity to blue light. These observations led researchers to speculate t...Modern-day butterflies 'invented' by bats
... the majority of them switched their activity from night to day, thereby avoiding bats altogether. But for some rare species of nocturnal butterflies, the evolution of ultrasound-sensitive ears means that these insects have developed and been able to use this sensory defence to stay alive during the night....Researchers identify molecule crucial to adjusting bodys internal clock
...versity of Illinois. "Light thatyou experience at night triggers the release of both glutamate and PACAP. ... This is likely the basis for why bright light at night keeps a person awake more effectively thandim light, Gillette said. Bright light delays clock time ...Virginia Tech microbe-minerals group launches new field of study
... research, "minerals and microbes might as well be night andday," says Virginia Tech geochemist Michael Hochella. "We know that the earth communicates with water and air, that microorganismsalter the physical and chemical properties of minerals, and that the diversityand distribution of microorganism on e...... go something like this: It was a dark and stormy night during fallmigration season. Lacking visual cues,...ated 10,000 Lapland longspurs diedone foggy, snowy night in western Kansas. The television tower that killed theneotropical migrants was "only" 420 feet hig...