Topic: Proceedings Of The Royal Society B
Scientists on Wednesday said they had solved a puzzle over why some wild chilli plants yield red-hot fruit but others have fruit which is mild.The answer lies in exposure to water, they reported in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society ...
A rattling good laugh with friends will help you deal with pain thanks to opiate-like chemicals that flood the brain, according to a British study released on Wednesday.Researchers carried out lab experiments in which volunteers watched either comedy clips from "Mr Bean" ...
A new species of eel found in the gloom of an undersea cave is a "living fossil" astonishingly similar to the first eels that swam some 200 million years ago, biologists reported on Wednesday.The strange find was made last year in a ...
Chimpanzees are self-aware and can anticipate the impact of their actions on the environment around them, an ability once thought to be uniquely human, according to a study released Wednesday.The findings, reported in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, challenge assumptions ...
Some have said that honeybees are messengers sent from the gods to show us how we ought to live: -Genomicist J. Craig Venter, explaining in a Der Spiegel interview (July 29, 2010) why the results of genome research have not yielded more ...
The cat-sized, three-toed creature that may have given rise to Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, and other fearsome dinosaurs loped across the earth nearly 10 million years earlier than previously thought. In the Holy Cross Mountains of southern Poland, researchers have found tracks, like ...
In 300 B.C.E., Aristotle proposed that the brittle white shells found on female argonaut octopuses functioned as a kind of boat, allowing the creatures to sail on the water surface. (The diminutive males, which are up to 8 times smaller and 600 ...
So says an unusual study which suggests finger length can indicate promiscuity among hominins, as the ancient family of humans is known.Researchers led by Emma Nelson of Liverpool University, northwestern England, looked at fossilised fingers from four hominin species.They comprised Ardipithecus ramidus, ...
One of the major questions in evolutionary biology is how altruism, or the act of helping another individual at your own expense, evolved. For example, a mother and daughter typically only share about 50 percent of their rare genes, since the daughter's ...
Sometimes the spider becomes the prey. The spindly-legged insect (pictured) lures arachnids to their deaths by landing on webs, struggling like entangled prey, and then eating the arachnids for dinner. However, the spiders never aggressively approached the assassin bugs, the researchers report ...
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