Rough terrain? No problem for beaver-inspired autonomous robot
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Autonomous robots excel in factories and other manmade spaces, but they struggle with the randomness of nature. To help these machines overcome...
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UAlberta biologists show that female seals have consistent personalities
Credit: Christi Bubac Female seals don't change their spots, according to a new study by University of Alberta biologists. In fact, individual differences in boldness...
Study signals dramatic change in way ancient diets are calculated
Credit: © AMNH/D. Finnin Knowing what extinct animals ate has long been determined by analyzing carbon isotopes locked inside fossil teeth. For two decades, a...
Inbred animals face greater threat from changes to environment
Credit: Per T Smiseth Animals that are inbred make mistakes in response to changes in their surroundings, which threatens their survival, research has found. A...
NIH study associates obesity with lower breast cancer risk in young women
Young women with high body fat have a decreased chance of developing breast cancer before menopause, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health...
Of hearts and giants: Moving a cardiac regulatory protein to the right place
Credit: Frontier Research Unit: Gene Expression,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) -led international researchers identify nuclear localization function for conserved section of heart ..
Key protein providing defense against ‘jumping genes’ identified
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Though they occasionally play a role in animal development, transposons, also known as "jumping genetic elements," are in fact DNA...
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