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Peculiar Life History of Middle American Stenamma Ants
April 25, 2013 — A recent revision of the Middle American clade of the ant genus Stenamma provides the description of 40 species, 33 of which are recognized as new to science. The extensive study provides the first ... > full story -
New Grass Hybrid Could Help Reduce the Likelihood of Flooding
April 25, 2013 — Scientists have used hybridized forage grass to combine fast root growth and efficient soil water retention. Field experiments show Festulolium cultivar reduces water runoff by up to 51 percent ... > full story -
Sexually Explicit Material Affects Behavior in Young People Less Than Thought
April 25, 2013 — Viewing sexually explicit material through media such as the Internet, videos, and magazines may be directly linked with the sexual behavior of adolescents and young adults, but only to a very small ... > full story -
Pedophiles Identified Accurately With Implicit Association Tasks
April 25, 2013 — A combination of two tasks for implied sexual associations has distinguished -- with more than 90 per cent certainty -- a group of pedophilic men from a group of men with a sexual preference for ... > full story -
Body Size Conveyed by Voice Determines Vocal Attractiveness
April 24, 2013 — Deep male voices and high-pitched female voices are perceived as more attractive because listeners gauge the speaker's body size from the frequency of their voice, according to new ... > full story -
Tinkerbella Nana: A New Representative from the World of Fairyflies
April 24, 2013 — A new genus and species of fairyfly, Tinkerbella nana (Mymaridae), is described from Costa Rica. It is compared with the related species Kikiki huna Beardsley and Huber, which holds the record for ... > full story -
Important Fertility Mechanism Discovered
April 24, 2013 — Scientists have discovered a new mechanism that controls egg cell fertility and that might have future therapeutic potential. They found that the blood protein fetuin-B plays an important and ... > full story -
Malaria Parasite Protein Identified as Potential New Target for Drug Treatment
April 24, 2013 — Scientists have discovered how a protein within the malaria parasite is essential to its survival as it develops inside a mosquito. They believe their findings identify this protein as a potential ... > full story -
Study Shows Reproductive Effects of Pesticide Exposure Span Generations
April 22, 2013 — Researchers studying aquatic organisms called Daphnia have found that exposure to a chemical pesticide has impacts that span multiple generations -- causing the so-called "water fleas" to produce ... > full story -
When It Comes to Survival of the Fittest, Stress Is a Good Thing, Squirrel Study Shows
April 18, 2013 — Researchers have shown for the first time how females' use social cues to correctly prepare their offspring for life outside the nest. The results confirm that red squirrel mothers boosted stress ... > full story
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