| Study shows elephants can literally sniff out danger http://uk.reuters.com/artic... Biology Articles Reuters UK - Andrews, who worked on the study published in Current Biology. Working with the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in southern Kenya, the researchers presented the animals with clean clothing and material worn by either a Masai or Kamba tribesman. They ... |
| Female Chromosome influences evolution http://timesofindia.indiati... Biology Articles Times of India - Writing about the new findings in the journal PLoS Biology , Biology Professor Daven Presgraves has said when one species splits into two, interbreeding between the two daughter species is much more likely to produce infertile hybrids when ... |
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| The elephants who never forget that red is a dangerous colour http://www.timesonline.co.u... Biology Articles Times Online - Whereas elephants had reacted with fear to the scent of Masai-worn clothes, in this visual case their reaction was to threaten,” the researchers reported in the journal Current Biology . Dr Bates and Richard Byrne, also from the University of St ... |
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| Teacher, student killed in separate crashes on Pike http://www.boston.com/news/... Biology Articles Boston Globe - After initially studying nursing, Jane Ziergiebel switched her focus to biology. Recently, she decided she wanted to become a teacher, and spent the past few months volunteering as a Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity tutor at ... |
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| State has reputation for racism http://timesofindia.indiati... Biology Articles Times of India - What’s certifiably on the records is that he was a brilliant young lad who graduated from Brown University in 1991 with honours in biology and public policy and received a master’s degree in political science from New College, Oxford, as a ... |
| Research On Smart, Bacteria-Repellent Nanohydrogels Aided By NSF $1 ... http://www.medicalnewstoday... Biology Articles Medical News Today - Professor Svetlana Sukhishvili of Stevens' Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology; Professor Hongjun Wang of Stevens' Department of Chemical, Biomedical & Materials Engineering; and Mercedes McKay of Stevens' Center for Innovation in Engineering ... |