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Preserved Habitat Near National Parks Helps Preserve Species

January 31, 2012
National parks often are established to help preserve species native to a particular region, but it appears that some species preservation is more successful if a significant portion of land adjacent to a park also is left as natural habitat.The Cerrado region in Brazil has been identified as the most ...

Evolutionary geneticist helps to find butterfly gene, clue to age-old question

January 31, 2012
An evolutionary geneticist helped discover the gene in passion vine butterflies that keeps predators from eating them. The gene is responsible for red patterns on the butterflies' wings.

Mammals shrink at faster rates than they grow: Research helps explain large-scale size changes and recovery from mass extinctions

January 31, 2012
It took about 10 million generations for terrestrial mammals to hit their maximum mass: that's about the size of a cat evolving into the size of an elephant. Sea mammals, such as whales took about half the number of generations to hit their maximum.

Are you a happy shopper? Research website helps you find out

January 26, 2012
Psychologists have found that buying experiences makes people happier than possessions, but who spends their spare cash on experiences? Extraverts and people who are open to new experiences are more likely to make a habit of "experience shopping" and are happier as a result, according to new research.

Religion helps us gain self-control, study suggests

January 24, 2012
Thinking about religion gives people more self-control on later, unrelated tasks, according to results from a series of recent studies.

Ocean Acidification Study Helps Scientists Evaluate Effects On Marine Life

January 24, 2012
Might a penguin's next meal be affected by the exhaust from your tailpipe? The answer may be yes, when you add your exhaust fumes to the total amount of carbon dioxide lofted into the atmosphere by humans since the industrial revolution. One-third of that carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ...

Major study of ocean acidification helps scientists evaluate effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide on marine life

January 24, 2012
Might a penguin's next meal be affected by the exhaust from your tailpipe? The answer may be yes, when you add your exhaust fumes to the total amount of carbon dioxide lofted into the atmosphere by humans since the industrial revolution. One-third of that carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ...

Solar Dynamics Observatory helps measure magnetic fields on the sun’s surface

January 19, 2012
A subset of data that helps map out the sun's magnetic fields was recently released from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Observations that measure the strength and direction of magnetic fields on the solar surface -- known as vector magnetograms -- play a crucial role in understanding how those fields ...

Fusion plasma research helps neurologists to hear above the noise

January 10, 2012
Fusion plasma researchers and neuroscientists are significantly improving our understanding of the data obtained from noninvasive study of the fast dynamics of networks in the human brain.

‘Love Hormone’ Helps Monkeys Show A Little Kindness

January 6, 2012
Oxytocin, the "love hormone" that builds mother-baby bonds and may help us feel more connected toward one another, can also make surly monkeys treat each other a little more kindly.Administering the hormone nasally through a kid-sized nebulizer, like a gas mask, a Duke University research team has shown that it ...

Scientists helps find structure of gene-editing protein

January 6, 2012
In the two and a half years since scientists discovered how a class of proteins find and bind specific sequences in plant genomes, researchers worldwide have moved fast to use this discovery. Now, the next step has been taken by determining the 3-D structure of a TAL effector bound to ...

Whiff of ‘love hormone’ helps monkeys show a little kindness

January 5, 2012
Oxytocin, the "love hormone" that builds mother-baby bonds and may help us feel more connected toward one another, can also make surly monkeys treat each other a little more kindly.