Normally, the posts I make here are about research that deals with what we are studying in class at the time, but this was too cool to pass up writing about. It has been well-documented that dolphins are highly intelligent animals--they play, they deceive and they communicate elaborately. But did you know that dolphins also [...]
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In honor of Charles Darwin's upcoming 200th birthday (it's February 12th), the editors of Nature decided to publish a selection of twelve different examples of evolution that have been uncovered by researchers in the past thirty or so years. Wired's science blog spotlights those examples here.
We have learned that there are two primary factors that drive [...]
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You all know by now that bees serve an important role in the environment as pollinators of flowering plants, many of which are important food crops. But did you know that bees also serve as defenders of the same plants? Researchers at the University of Wurzburg in Germany (site in German, sorry) have found that [...]
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If you've ever had to have surgery, whether it is major or minor, you may have been prescribed a painkiller to ease the pain of the first few post-op days, when the pain is most intense. Often, these prescription painkillers are synthetic opiate derivatives such as hydrocodone, which mimics natural opiates found in plants [...]
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