A 'private bandwidth' for communication in bats: Evidence from insular horseshoe bats
...lls to recognise their own species" A new study in the Journal of Biogeography by Danilo Russo and colleagues suggests that this is certainly the case for horseshoe bats (Rhinolophidae). These bats find their way in the dark and detect insect pre...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
Here is the latest American Chemical Society (ACS) News Servic...als and Chemical & Engineering News. Please credit the individual journal or the American Chemical Society as the source for this information. ACS NEWS...NIH gives $8M to University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine for myositis research
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 13 Researchers from the division of rheumatology and clinical immunology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine are leading a worldwide effort to study a treatment for ...Facial attraction -- choice of sexual partner shaped the human face
...ng cheeks and large eyebrows are sexy, at least in the eyes of our ancestors, researchers at the Natural History Museum have discovered. Facial attractiveness played a major role in shaping human e...Study begins to reveal clues to the cause and progression of sepsis
...BURGH, Aug. 13 Not all patients with sepsis mount the same immune response, even when they look the same clinically, according to findings from the first large-scale natural history study of sepsis. T...Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
...of Science and Technology (KAUST) announced that the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will be the first partner in its global collaborative research program. A delegation from WHOI arrived on June ...Multinational research: protecting ecology means understanding people, too
...g to a biologist about ones feelings could produce the same reaction as, say, telling a sociologist about molecules. Yet if the problems confronting conservation of the worlds biodiversity are to be tackled and fixed, then scien...Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies
Expanding forests in the Canadian Rocky Mountains are slowly isolating grou...ine butterflies from each other, which may lead to the extinction of the colourful insects in some areas, says a new study from the University of Alberta. ...AFCYBER holds science and technology symposium
To help pave the way for future combat operations in the cyber domain, Eighth Air Force Commander Lt Gen. Robert Elder and his staff hosted a meeting at Bark...Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
...in, completely flexible, and geared toward meeting the trickiest design and energy requirements of tomorr...300 degrees Fahrenheit and down to 100 below zero, the device is completely integrated and can be printed like paper. The device is also unique in that it ...New study warns limited carbon market puts 20 percent of tropical forest at risk
...bat climate change. A study published Tuesday in the Public Library of Science Biology journal warns that the high forest cover with low rates of deforestation (HFLD) nations could become the most vulnerable ta...Clones on task serve greater good, evolutionary study shows
...olid evolutionary strategy.At least if youre among the creatures that produce scads of genetically identi.... These creatures provide a chance to wonder about the clones raised in near-identical environments that turn out differently than their kin. In this weeks...Unravelling new complexity in the genome
...es as significantly less complex organisms such as the minute nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. Clearly something other than gene count is behind the genetic differences between simpler and more complex life forms. Increased functional and cellula...Diverse genetic abnormalities lead to NF-κB activation in multiple myeloma
Two new studies may lead to the development of more effective therapies for indivi...l cancer. The research, published by Cell Press in the August issue of the journal Cancer Cell, provides new insight into the molecular mechanisms that und...Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
...cher. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases, which the World Health Organization has recently reported. Both fa......invasive tumors with tendrils that extend far from the primary tumor site, rendering conventional therapi...osis. In a new study published online this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, Angela Johnston, Donna Senger, and colleagues at the University of...Which came first, the moth or the cactus?
...one basket unless you're a senita moth. Found in the parched Sonoran desert of southern Arizona and northern Mexico, the senita moth depends on a single plant species -- the senita cactus -- both for its food and for a pl...Interaction of just 2 genes governs coloration patterns in mice
...DGE, Mass. -- Biologists at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have found th...mple interaction between just two genes determines the patterns of fur coloration that camouflage mice against their background, protecting them from many ...Bursts of waves drive immune system 'soldiers' toward invaders
...es. The discovery - recorded on videotape -- holds the potential for better understanding and treatment o...nly under a very high-resolution light microscope, the dynamic waves are made of a signaling protein that directs cell movement. This protein and a second ......milton, ON. August 13, 2007 Scientists have found the existence of cross-talk between human chromosome ends and the protein complexes central to the stability of the entire human genome, a chat that contributes to ca...