"In the quest for alternative energy, there’s a source many may have overlooked. Not Narberth resident Bill McHugh, though. He’s been exploring it ever since he built and moved into his Sabine Avenue home 46 years ago. You could call it “squirrel power.”"
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"When Oscar the cat lost both his hind paws in a farming accident, it was feared he'd have to trundle around in one of those wheeled-cat apparatuses. But Noel Fitzpatrick, a neuro-orthopedic veterinary surgeon in Surrey, pioneered a groundbreaking technique instead, installing weight-bearing bone implants to create a bionic kitty."
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"The cradle of human evolution in East Africa has been scorching hot for a long time, favoring fur-free, upright humans, new research finds."
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"That blank stare in your dog's eyes could be the result of thousands of years of human intervention."
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"Mice make dramatic faces when they're in pain, and now their expressions have been cataloged scientifically on a "mouse grimace scale" (pictured below). A paper published in Nature Methods yesterday explains the ways researchers hurt mice, and why.
Just to be clear, the reason why this group of researchers studied mouse pain is not to get their jollies. Mice are often used in studies of pain management and pain relief, which means researchers need to be able to recognize what mice look like when they hurt - and when they don't. Unfortunately, that means hurting mice to create this un read more »
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Just to be clear, the reason why this group of researchers studied mouse pain is not to get their jollies. Mice are often used in studies of pain management and pain relief, which means researchers need to be able to recognize what mice look like when they hurt - and when they don't. Unfortunately, that means hurting mice to create this un read more »
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"Why are dolphins killing porpoises? Researchers are hoping a listening device could solve the mystery"
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"Young has been researching the albatrosses on Oahu since 2003; the colony was the focus of her doctoral dissertation at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, which she completed last spring. (She now works on conservation projects as a biologist for hire.) In the course of her doctoral work, Young and a colleague discovered, almost incidentally, that a third of the pairs at Kaena Point actually consisted of two female birds, not one male and one female. Laysan albatrosses are one of countless species in which the two sexes look basically identical. It turned out that many of the female-female pa
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"Reintroducing wolves into native habitats, researchers from the National Park Service write in the latest issue of BioScience, can help restore damaged ecosystems. Doing so in national parks and other areas, they say, would foster greater biodiversity and could even encourage tourism. But there is a caveat: The initial populations would have to be small and carefully managed, not self-sustaining."
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