Showing posts with label EVOLUTION. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EVOLUTION. Show all posts
Saturday, December 13, 2014

NSF HELPS FUND RESEARCH ON GENETIC ORIGINS OF BIRDS

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  'Big bang' of bird evolution mapped by international research team Genes reveal histories of b...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

THE SPECIATION OF TREES

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FROM:  THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Tracing the evolution of forest trees Evergreen tree in Hawaii offers clues into survival of trop...
Friday, August 22, 2014

CLIMATE CHANGE AND MAMMALS OF THE PAST

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Understanding how ancestors of today's mammals responded to climate change Research provides va...
Friday, June 13, 2014

THE FOX WHO GOT READY FOR AN ICE AGE

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  "Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet Ext...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

RESEARCH ON COMPETITION TO SURVIVE

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Study suggests survival isn't always about competition New research findings contradict one of ...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

EARLY VENOMOUS SNAKE FOSSILS FOUND IN AFRICA

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Snakes Alive! NSF-funded researchers find oldest fossil evidence of modern African venomous snakes Se...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

JET PROPULSION LABORATORY USES FUEL CELLS TO INVESTIGATE ORIGINS OF LIFE

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FROM:  NASA  How Did Life Arise? Fuel Cells May Have Answers How life arose from the toxic and inhospitable environment of our planet bi...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

FRUIT SMELLING BATS

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  By dark of night, how do bats smell their way to fruit? Scientists find distinctive patterns of olfact...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

FINDING ENGINEERING INSIGHTS FROM ANIMAL DRINKING STUDIES

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Scientists apply biological behavior to human engineering Study of animals' water drinking motion...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

NSF ARTICLE ON PHYSICS OF MOVEMENT FOR DESERT DWELLERS AND ROBOTS

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Desert dwellers and 'bots reveal physics of movement The Georgia-Tech based 'CRAB' lab in...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

GENES BY THE NUMBERS

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Photo:  DNA.  Credit:  NIH/Wikimedia. FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Genomic and computational tools provide window to distant pa...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

WHY ARE DISEASES NASTY TO THEIR HOSTS?

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House Finch.  Credit:  Wikimedia. FROM: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Evolution in the Blink of an Eye A disease in songbirds has rap...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

SCIENTISTS FIND EARLY MONKEY-APE SPLIT

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Olive Baboon.  Credit:  Wikimedia. FROM: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Scientists Discover Oldest Evidence of Split Between Old World Mo...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

NSF AND THE TREE OF LIFE BRANCHES AND EVOLUTION

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION June 4, 2012 A new initiative aims to build a comprehensive tree of life that brings together everythin...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

NEW FROG SPECIES FOUND IN NEW YORK CITY

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The following excerpt is from the National Science Foundation website: March 14, 2012 In the wilds of New York City--or as wild as you ca...