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January 31, 2009

Chimps show that actions spoke louder than words in language evolution

Category: Animals

Hollywood cavemen typically communicate with grunts and snorts, reflecting a belief that human language originated like this and slowly evolved into the rich and sophisticated tongues we use today. But researchers from Emory University, Atlanta have found evidence that the...

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January 30, 2009

Teaching scientific knowledge doesn't improve scientific reasoning

Category: Education

Chinese physics students trounce Americans in terms of knowledge, but both are matched in terms of reasoning

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David Attenborough on Charles Darwin

I don't normally post videos here, but when it's David Attenborough doing the talking, I'm more than happy to make an exception. This man is a legend, and has done so much to promote the majesty of nature to the...

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January 29, 2009

The swarm-maker molecule - how serotonin transforms solitary locusts into social ones

Category: Animal behaviour

This signalling chemical is necessary and sufficient for bringing out the social side of locusts

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January 28, 2009

Are emperor penguins marching to extinction?

Category: Animals

Shrinking Antarctic sea ice could dramatically slash current populations by 2100.

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January 27, 2009

Old wounds show that Triceratops used its horns for combat

Category: Dinosaurs

Its frequency of skull injuries, relative to Centrosaurus, suggest that its horns weren't just for show.

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What is science's rightful place?

Category: Personal

Last week, President Obama stated in his inaugural address that he would "restore science to its rightful place." ScienceBlogs has been quick to capitalise on his words by launching a new initiative called The Rightful Place Project. As an opening...

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January 26, 2009

Low-calorie diets improve memory in old age

Category: Medicine & health

Could lower insulin levels be behind the improvements?

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January 25, 2009

How dolphins prepare the perfect cuttlefish meal

Category: Animals

One female bottlenose has learned to flush out cuttlefish, kill, de-ink and "debone" them.

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January 24, 2009

A beach in glowing bacteria

Category: Personal

A little light weekend treat for you. This beach scence was drawn using eight strains of glowing bacteria. Each has been engineered to produce a differently coloured fluorescent protein. The bacteria were swabbed over a nutrient plate and left to...

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