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Baby Corals Dance Their Way Home
May 14, 2010 Baby corals find their way home in their first days as free-swimming larvae by listening to the noise of animals on the reef and actively swimming towards it, an international team of researchers ... > full story -
Insects Not 'Hard-Wired': Young Male Crickets Grow Larger in the Presence of Abundant Male Song
May 12, 2010 Biologists have found that male crickets growing up in the presence of abundant male song tend to be larger, behave differently, and invest nearly 10 percent more reproductive tissue mass in their ... > full story -
Scientists Investigate Acoustics in Gulf of Mexico
May 12, 2010 Scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory recently completed an investigation of the acoustic properties of the deep seafloor in the Gulf of ... > full story -
Music Aids Alzheimer's Patients in Remembering New Information
May 12, 2010 Researchers have shown that patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) are better able to remember new verbal information when it is provided in the context of music even when compared to healthy, older ... > full story -
Mozart's Music Does Not Make You Smarter, Study Finds
May 10, 2010 For over 15 years, scientists have been discussing alleged performance-enhancing effects of hearing classical music. Now, researchers in Vienna, Austria present quite definite results on this ... > full story -
Omni-Focus Video Camera to Revolutionize Industry: Automatic Real-Time Focus of Both Near and Far Field Images
May 4, 2010 Researchers in Canada have announced a breakthrough development in video camera design. The omni-focus video camera, based on an entirely new distance-mapping principle, delivers automatic real-time ... > full story -
Kids With Hearing Loss in One Ear Fall Behind in Language Skills, Study Finds
May 4, 2010 By the time they reach school age, one in 20 children have hearing loss in one ear. That can raise significant hurdles for these children, say the results of a new study, because loss of hearing in ... > full story -
Stress-Response System in the Ear Protects Against Hearing Loss
May 3, 2010 An in vivo study shows for the first time that there is a local stress-response system within the cochlea that mirrors the signaling pathways of the body's fight or flight response. This hormone-like ... > full story -
Scientists Probe Earth's Core
April 28, 2010 By observing distant earthquakes, researchers have revealed new clues about the top of the Earth's ... > full story -
How the Male Common Snipe 'Flies the Flag' to Get the Girl
April 28, 2010 A new study -- using high speed video and feathers bought on eBay -- shows that when the male snipe sticks out his outer tail feathers, they flutter like flags in the wind, producing a highly ... > full story
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