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Post oak grasshoppers emerging

...rt wings and are flightless, Behmer said, but they love to climb up trees and houses. "Last year they were in enormous amounts," Junek said, "and mainly on the east side of my house." If hordes of grasshoppers on houses aren't bad enough, they make their presence even more obnoxious by leaving fra...

With fruit fly sex, researchers find mind-body connection

...ng ?chasing females, shaking their wings to "sing" love songs, tapping or licking their intended mates. In...d copies of the gene were more likely to listen to love songs and to copulate. Interestingly, reducing the activity of doublesex or retained also allowed fe...

'Fruit fly dating game' provides clues to our reproductive prowess

...ils are few and far between," Keller said. "People love the dinosaurs but we can only really study what happened to them by looking at microfossils because these little critters are everywhere at all times. In just a pinch of sediment we can tell you the age, the prevailing climate, the environment in whi...

Far more than a meteor killed dinos

...ils are few and far between," Keller said. "People love the dinosaurs but we can only really study what happened to them by looking at microfossils because these little critters are everywhere at all times. In just a pinch of sediment we can tell you the age, the prevailing climate, the environment in whi...

Fire ants: Their true story told by the scientist who loves them

...-brainer," he said. "They are wonderful animals. I love them." Hot off the Harvard University Press in mi...as scientists measure and manipulate the ants they love (and that do indeed sting them). Tschinkel's anecdote on shelter is titled "There's Nothing Like Get...

Salk scientists get to the root of plant cell fate

When Robert Burns compared his love to a red, red rose, he definitely wasn't referring to a topless mutant. That's because rather than being topped by a lovely, fragrant bloom, a rose mutant in the gene known as TOPLESS would be crowned by a homely second root. Researchers at the Salk...

Agriculture and tropical conservation: rethinking old ideas

...ofessor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. "They love their farms and all the plants and animals in the area, and they see that it's the big, rich landowners who come in and cut all the trees down and turn the land into cattle pastures. So the standard litany doesn't ring true to them." Vandermeer an...

MIT 'seeing machine' offers hope to blind

...uage," Goldring said. "One woman told me she would love to see recipes written that way." They also used the machine to navigate through a virtual environment, raising the potential for "previewing" unfamiliar buildings a person wants to visit. Goldring explained that visually challenged people are oft...

Technique speeds up detecting, treating wound bacteria

...ean War veteran who confesses he's had an "ongoing love affair with anaerobes for several decades," Finegold has two additional eponymous bacteria--Alistipes finegoldia and Bacteroides finegoldii--that will probably also be found in wounds but aren't part of those detectable by PCR. Yet. "We will defini...

UF researchers develop ways to keep the bloom on the rose

They may not be able to make love last, but a team of University of Florida researchers has figured out how to at least make the flowers go the distance. A UF environmental horticulturist has developed ways to extend flower quality and vase life by three or more days through post-ha...

MIT chemist discovers secret behind nature's medicines

...e question was, how do they do it? Chemists would love to have that enzyme's capability so they could efficiently reproduce, or slightly re-engineer, those products, which include antibiotics, anti-tumor agents, and fungicides. Thanks to MIT chemistry Associate Professor Catherine L. Drennan's recent cr...

President Bush's cut to AIDS prevention in Africa would be devastating

...s were removed, Gilllespie said. Because elephants love to eat the shrub, they trample through the clearings, adding yet another obstacle for the growth of new trees, he said. "Knowledge of how particular species are affected by various forms of ecological change is essential to promote land-use policy t...

Affymetrix and ParAllele Launch Industry's Most Comprehensive Product Line for Targeted Genotyping

...s were removed, Gilllespie said. Because elephants love to eat the shrub, they trample through the clearings, adding yet another obstacle for the growth of new trees, he said. "Knowledge of how particular species are affected by various forms of ecological change is essential to promote land-use policy t...

Logging changed ecological balance for monkeys, damaged health

...s were removed, Gilllespie said. Because elephants love to eat the shrub, they trample through the clearings, adding yet another obstacle for the growth of new trees, he said. "Knowledge of how particular species are affected by various forms of ecological change is essential to promote land-use policy t...

Tufts researchers shine light on firefly mysteries

... are continuing to shine new light on the frenzied love life of fireflies. For the first time, researchers will explore the question of whether male fireflies' flashing light ?previously shown in one species to indicate superior physical and genetic quality ?has evolved in another species to provide misi...

UI researcher studies deafness in fruit flies, humans

...they may seem an odd choice, the fruit fly and its love song are very effective tools for learning about t...r or not mutant fruit flies can hear the fruit fly love song (actually a vibrating wing) enables Eberl to evaluate the function of genes responsible for hea...

New book explains antibiotic resistance for a broad audience

...ve a love-hate relationship with antibiotics. They love the fact that antibiotics work most of the time and work quickly with few side effects. They hate the fact that more and more physicians are refusing to prescribe antibiotics for flu and that patients are being blamed for demanding antibiotics when t...

Leprosy microbes lead scientists to immune discovery

...or fails to. Now we know the players, and we would love to look at them in other diseases such as tuberculosis in the lungs and juvenile diabetes." Harvard School of Public Health is dedicated to advancing the public's health through learning, discovery, and communication. More than 300 faculty members a...

Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive

You just can't tell where you might find love these days. A team led by a neuroscientist, an ant...onance imaging machine. They detected quantifiable love responses in the brains of 17 young men and women who each described themselves as being newly and m...

Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show

...emented with selenium," said Terry. "Farmers would love to have this source of selenium." Other co-authors of the study include Danika L. LeDuc, a post-doctoral researcher at UC Berkeley's Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Elizabeth A.H. Pilon-Smits, associate professor of biology at Colorado St...

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