A species relies on genetic diversity to survive and low diversity usually indicates that there has been inbreeding due to a decrease in population size. By looking at historic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from museum samples, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 23, 2012
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What makes some ocean animals more prone to extinction than others? A new study of marine fossils provides a clue.
Ecology
Oct 23, 2012
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Computer simulations provide new mathematical support for the "grandmother hypothesis" – a famous theory that humans evolved longer adult lifespans than apes because grandmothers helped feed their grandchildren.
Evolution
Oct 23, 2012
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The laws that govern how intricate surface patterns, such as those found in the cauliflower, develop over time have been described, for the first time, by a group of European researchers.
General Physics
Oct 23, 2012
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New research carried out by scientists at Universities in Exeter, France and Switzerland reveals for the first time the importance of social networking in producing a successful family.
Plants & Animals
Oct 23, 2012
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The steady and dramatic decline in the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean over the last three decades has become a focus of media and public attention. At the opposite end of the Earth, however, something more complex is happening.
Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2012
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The eighteenth tropical depression only took six hours to strengthen into Tropical Storm Sandy, confirming NASA research that sighting of hot towers leads to intensification. Sandy may further intensify into a hurricane and ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2012
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Infrared imagery from the AIRS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite revealed that the strongest thunderstorms within the Atlantic Ocean's Tropical Depression 19 seem to form a backwards letter "C" stretching from northeast ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2012
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Canadian senators on Tuesday endorsed a plan to cull 70,000 grey seals in the southern Gulf of Saint Lawrence in an effort to preserve groundfish stocks.
Ecology
Oct 23, 2012
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(AP)—Facebook finally has proof that it can make money from mobile advertising.
Business
Oct 23, 2012
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