Living computers solve complex math puzzle

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Mini helicopter masters insect navigation trick

The micro-copter uses a simple optical trick to fly gracefully (Image: Hubert Raguet)

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Climate change alters seals' sexual selection

Grey Seals keep cool in water pools at the North Rona colony (Image: Biology Letters / Sean Twiss)

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Sexiest parents deliver average offspring

Sexy males sire dowdy daughters and attractive females bear insipid sons – in fruit flies, at least.

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New Animal Resembling Furry Lobster Found

A team of American-led divers has discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster and is covered with what looks like silky, blond fur, French researchers said Tuesday.

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A new amphibian species can survive on land with no nostrils, lungs, or legs, say researchers who discovered the bizarre beast.

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Charles Darwin and many other scientists have long been puzzled by the evolution of orchids, the largest and most diverse family of flowering plants on Earth. Now genetic sequencing is giving scientists insights into how these plants could evolve so quickly.

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Most people know the term of "migrating bird" but "migrating bat" is not very established. However, some bat species migrate every year long or short distances.

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With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists and to the public.

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DNA recovered from fossilised bones of the moa, a giant extinct bird, has revealed a new geological history of New Zealand, reports a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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...[T]he board of trustess of La Sierra University in Riverside, California, voted to endorse young-earth creationism:La Sierra's board of trustees last week unanimously voted to endorse Adventist beliefs that the world was created in six 24-hour days and said the teaching of e …

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Wired Science News for Your Neurons Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists * By Brandon Keim Email Author * November 16, 2009 | * 3:00 pm | * Categories: Animals, Biology * darwinfinches2 finches2

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What had bones like a crocodile and grew like a crocodile, but was a goat? The answer, according to a new study, was the now-extinct Myotragus, also known as "mouse goat."

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Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to prospect in Sagittarius B2(N), a giant molecular cloud near the center of our Galaxy, some 25,000 light-years from Earth for new, complex molecules in interstellar space that may be precursors to life.

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A coral is recorded eating a jellyfish for the first time, in intriguing photographs taken by scientists.

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"Who is Paul Langerhans, and how did his islets wind up in your pancreas? Good question. Although lots of body parts take their names from Greek or Latin, more than a few are named after people.

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Certain primates, including humans, engage in oral sex. The practice has been documented in bonobos as well. But now researchers have documented fellatio in bats, marking the first time oral sex has been seen in an animal other than a primate.

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A beetle apparently protects itself by constructing armor made from excrement, researchers now reveal.

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Five years after discovering some of the strangest creatures in the world — mouthless worms that live in the bones of dead whales — scientists have taken a peek into their genes. Though not complete, the glimpse shows these creatures to be far more complicated than was known.

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At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has built up quite a reputation. All the dolphins at the institute are trained to hold onto any litter that falls into their pools until they see a trainer, when they can trade the litter for fish.

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In the current issue of Animal Behaviour, researchers present evidence that domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and will use their understanding of reflected images to scope out their surroundings and find their food.

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Female fiddler crabs have sex with their male neighbours in exchange for protection against wandering male intruders, say Australian researchers.

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Unlike all other large Kuiper Belt Objects, which are covered in methane ice and so slightly red in colour, Haumea and its two moons are covered in water ice, giving them a blue tinge. Moreover, Haumea is much denser than water and so must have a rich rocky core.

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scientists say gene therapy may be on the edge of a resurgence.

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I want to talk today about three specific religious beliefs.

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The Evolution Of Evolution?

From Dr. Eamonn F. Healy ( Link: ) St. Edwards University Motto: Learn to Think. On Human Evolution....

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French neuroscientist Bruno della Chiesa met with his country's education minister in Paris to talk about the groundbreaking international movement to link the fields of teaching and brain science.

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A species of mantis shrimp, thanks to a unique eye structure, can perceive light that is circularly polarized

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Biologists for the first time have documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South America.

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Despite a 30-year lifespan that gives ample time for cells to grow cancerous, a small rodent species called a naked mole rat has never been found with tumors of any kind—and now biologists at the University of Rochester think they know why.

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