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Birds Outpace Climate Change to Avoid Extinction
July 10, 2013 — A new study has shed light on the potential of birds to survive in the face of climate change. In the analysis, based on more than fifty years' detailed study of a population of great tits near ... > full story -
Biologists Name Newly Discovered Threadworm After Physicist Max Planck
July 9, 2013 — Biologists have named a newly discovered nematode after a German Nobel laureate. Pristionchus maxplancki is thus the first species to carry the name of the scientist, who died in 1947. The discovery ... > full story -
Researchers Identify 'Switch' for Long-Term Memory
July 8, 2013 — Neurobiologists have identified calcium in the cell nucleus to be a cellular "switch" responsible for the formation of long-term memory. Using the fruit fly as a model, scientists investigate how the ... > full story -
Second Door Discovered in War Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases
July 8, 2013 — In the global war against disease-carrying mosquitoes, scientists have long believed that a single molecular door was the key target for insecticide. This door, however, is closing, giving mosquitoes ... > full story -
Moths Talk About Sex in Many Ways
July 8, 2013 — Originally moths developed ears so that they could hear their worst enemy, the bat, but now moths also use their ears to communicate about sex in a great number of different ... > full story -
Could Diet While Growing Up Affect Our Offspring's Vitality?
July 8, 2013 — You are what you eat – and so are your offspring. And in the title bout featuring protein versus sugar, protein is the winner. That’s what scientists found while studying the fruit fly ... > full story -
Hawkmoths Use Ultrasound to Combat Bats
July 4, 2013 — For years, pilots flying into combat have jammed enemy radar to get the drop on their opponents. It turns out that moths can do it, ... > full story -
Spider Webs More Effective at Ensnaring Charged Insects
July 4, 2013 — Flapping bees build up a charge of several hundred volts, enough to electrostatically draw pollen from a flower. But researchers have discovered a downside to being charged: it attracts spider silk ... > full story -
Remarkable 32 New Wasp Species from the Distinctive Odontacolus and Cyphacolus Genera
July 3, 2013 — Scientists have described a remarkable 32 new Odontacolus and Cyphacolus wasp species, providing extensive morphological phylogenetic analysis of these previously understudied genera. The wasps from ... > full story -
Fossil Insect Traces Reveal Ancient Climate, Entrapment, and Fossilization at La Brea Tar Pits
July 3, 2013 — The La Brea Tar Pits have stirred the imaginations of scientists and the public for over a century. But the amount of time it took for ancient animals to become buried in asphalt after enduring ... > full story
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