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Feeding Birds Could Create New Species | Wired Science | Wired.comSomething as simple as feeding birds can change their biological fate, and even seed the formation of a new species. Central European blackcap warblers that spend the winter in the birdfeeder-rich United Kingdom are on a different evolutionary trajectory than those that migrate to Spain. The ...
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Antarctic lake home to diverse community of virusesA study of the genetic structure of viruses in an Antarctic lake has revealed an astonishing genetic richness in the large number of viral families discovered. Aquatic viruses usually infect prokaryotes such as bacteria, but the viruses in the Antarctic had a large proportion of viruses that ...
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Longer shelf life for some RTE foods contributes to Listeria rise, expertAn industry expert has raised concerns about the lengthy shelf-life of some listeria-prone ready-to-eat foods (RTE) in come countries as the EU said it would help fund a pan-regional study on the issue. Kaarin Goodburn, of the UK Chilled Food Association (CFA), said increasing incidents of ...
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Eighty million years without sexThe mystery of how an animal has survived for 80 million years without sex has been solved by UK scientists. A Cambridge team says the creature owes its existence to a genetic quirk that offers some recompense for its prolonged celibacy. Many asexual organisms have died out because they ...
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Bristol UWE - NewsScientists at the University of the West of England are to design the first ever biological robot using mould. Researchers have received a Leverhulme Trust grant worth £228,000 to develop the amorphous non-silicon biological robot, plasmobot, using plasmodium, the vegetative stage of the slime ...
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Puffins fitted with sat nav to try and stem rapid decline | Mail OnlineSat-nav seabirds: Puffins fitted with GPS as scientists try to discover why they are dying out By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:51 PM on 01st July 2009 Puffins living in one of the most remote places in the UK are to be fitted with 'sat nav' devices in a bid to help scientists ...
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Deadly Parasite Could Endanger Salmon and Trout PopulationsStocks of the UK’s Atlantic salmon along with varieties of domestic Brown trout could be under threat from a deadly parasite according to research led Bournemouth University (BU) published in the International Journal of Parasitology. Lead author of the paper Dr Rodolphe Gozlan believes the ...
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Commentary: World's biggest fish are dying - CNN.comTed Danson is an Emmy Award-winning actor, a founding board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation, and narrator of a new film, "End of the Line." My friend Charles Clover, then a reporter for the U.K.'s Telegraph, wrote an ...
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Hummingbirds outperform pilots, pulling nine g's and 385 body lengths per second: Scientific American BlogHummingbirds outperform pilots, pulling nine g 's and 385 body lengths per second To win the favor of females, male Anna's hummingbirds ( Calypte anna ) dive at record speeds of 385 body lengths per second—and pull some extreme in-flight maneuvers—reports a new study in the U.K. journal Procee...
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Bird Migrations Set To Increase: Added Distance Is 'Considerable Threat' To Some SpeciesBird Migrations Set To Increase: Added Distance Is 'Considerable Threat' To Some Species ScienceDaily (June 8, 2009) — Bird migrations are likely to get longer according to the first ever study of the potential impacts of climate change on the breeding and winter ranges of migrant birds. The ...
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