Nature : Science World Report

Apr 19, 2012 10:55 AM EDT

Improved Loblolly Pines Better for the Environment, Study Finds

More than 50 years of genetics work to increase loblolly pine production in the Southeast has improved the trees' ability to act as carbon sinks that mitigate climate change, according to a new study by North Carolina State University researchers.

Apr 19, 2012 10:10 AM EDT

World's First Handmade Cloned Transgenic Sheep Born in China

Chinese scientists from BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, together with the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology,

Apr 18, 2012 12:31 PM EDT

Cod Has a Key Role in the Whole Baltic Sea

A new investigation put in evidence the key role of cod as regulator of the whole Baltic Sea ecosystem. The study shows that when the cod population in the central Baltic increases, it spreads into larger areas and spills over into adjacent marginal systems where it usually does not occur, as for ex...

Apr 18, 2012 11:06 AM EDT

Scientists Trace Evolutionary History of What Mammals Eat

The feeding habits of mammals haven't always been what they are today, particularly for omnivores.

Apr 18, 2012 10:33 AM EDT

UC Research Explores Early Agriculture, Which Dogs Make for the Best Hunters and More

Among the research presented by University of Cincinnati faculty and students at the April 18-22 Society for American Archaeology meeting will be an examination of early agriculture in southern Europe in the 7th century B.C., research on the role of volcanic activity in the rise and fall of the Maya...

Apr 18, 2012 09:59 AM EDT

Can Behavior be Controlled by Genes? The Case of Honeybee Work Assignments

What worker bees do depends on how old they are. A worker a few days old will become a nurse bee that devotes herself to feeding larvae (brood), secreting beeswax to seal the cells that contain brood and attending to the queen.

Apr 18, 2012 07:46 AM EDT

Green-glowing Fish Provides new Insights into Health Impacts of Pollution

Understanding the damage that pollution causes to both wildlife and human health is set to become much easier thanks to a new green-glowing zebrafish. Created by a team from the University of Exeter, the fish makes it easier than ever before to see where in the body environmental chemicals act and h...

Apr 17, 2012 04:49 PM EDT

Using Math to Feed the World

In the race to breed better crops to feed the increasing world population, scientists at The University of Nottingham are using maths to find out how a vital plant hormone affects growth.

Apr 17, 2012 04:32 PM EDT

Marine Worm Feeds on Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen Sulphide with the Help of Symbiotic Bacteria

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and Greifswald University, together with colleagues from Freiburg, Italy and the USA, have revealed that a small marine worm, faced with a s...

Apr 17, 2012 11:55 AM EDT

Dinosaur Eggs Found in Russia's Chechnya

Geologists in Russia's volatile Chechnya region have discovered what they believe to be fossilized dinosaur eggs laid by one of the huge extinct reptiles that roamed the Earth more than 60 million years ago.

Apr 17, 2012 11:27 AM EDT

Study Amplifies Understanding of Hearing in Baleen Whales

For decades, scientists have known that dolphins and other toothed whales have specialized fats associated with their jaws, which efficiently convey sound waves from the ocean to their ears. But until now, the hearing systems of their toothless grazing cousins, baleen whales, remained a mystery.

Apr 17, 2012 10:49 AM EDT