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Public Release: 4-Apr-2006
Society for Experimental Biology Annual Main Meeting at the University of Kent, Canterbury
Modelling virtual dogs: It's a walk in the park!
Dog walking is a national pastime, but how does your dog walk? Different breeds have different gaits, for example greyhounds tend to be thin and fast whilst labradors are thicker set and tend to waddle. Dr Jim Usherwood from the Royal Veterinary College in London explains how he is using computers to simulate the way dogs walk, helping scientists understand the mechanics behind walking problems such as hip dysplasia.
Contact: Vicky Just
v.just@lancaster.ac.uk
788-770-7393
Society for Experimental Biology
Public Release: 4-Apr-2006
Experimental Biology 2006
How low can you go? Ants learn to limbo
Have you ever tried to do the limbo? For ants it's a way of life! Tobias Seidl from the University of Zurich will be presenting his findings that ants are able to learn how to visually judge the height of horizontal barriers so that they can successfully crawl under it without slowing down.
Contact: Vicky Just
v.just@lancaster.ac.uk
788-770-7393
Society for Experimental Biology
Public Release: 4-Apr-2006
Society for Experimental Biology Annual Main Meeting at the University of Kent, Canterbury
Salmon go veggie to save wild fish stocks
Salmon, like humans, require omega-3 fatty acids in their diet to function healthily. With wild marine fish stocks on the decline, feeding salmon with pellets made from fish such as anchovy is unsustainable in the long term. Scientists from the University of British Columbia will explain how this problem could be solved by replacing anchovy oil with canola oil (also known as rapeseed oil) in the diets of salmon.
Contact: Vicky Just
v.just@lancaster.ac.uk
788-770-7393
Society for Experimental Biology
Public Release: 31-Mar-2006
American Naturalist
Why is the ground brown?
Ecologists have long asked, Why is the world green? In other words, why aren't herbivores, such as insects and grazing animals, more successful at eating the world's green leaves, also known as plant biomass? In the May 2006 issue of American Naturalist, Steven D. Allison (University of California, Irvine) asks the same questions a different way: Why is the ground brown? Why don't the organisms that break down the carbon in the soil consume it all?
Contact: Suzanne Wu
swu@press.uchicago.edu
773-834-0386
University of Chicago Press Journals
Public Release: 15-Mar-2006
Saved by 'sand' poured into wounds
QuikClot is a sand-like material developed for the military which when poured into a wound can stop bleeding within seconds - saving lives. New advances in this material and the development of new substances could soon see blood clotting treatments being acceptable for ambulance crews, surgeons or ultimately to use by individuals at home in their first aid kits.
Contact: Claire Bowles
claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk
44-207-611-1210
New Scientist
Public Release: 15-Mar-2006
Nature
Rare Chinese frogs communicate by means of ultrasonic sound
First came word that a rare frog (Amolops tormotus) in China sings like a bird, then that the species produces very high-pitch ultrasonic sounds. Now scientists say that these concave-eared torrent frogs also hear and respond to the sounds.
NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Science Foundation
Contact: Jim Barlow, Life Sciences Editor
jebarlow@uiuc.edu
217-333-5802
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Public Release: 14-Mar-2006
Quickplacer, the fastest robot in the world
Fatronik has launched the most rapid robot in the world at the BIEMH (International Machine-Tool Biennial) in Bilbao.
Contact: Irati Kortabitarte
iratik@elhuyar.com
34-943-363-040
Elhuyar Fundazioa
Public Release: 13-Mar-2006
Astrophysical Journal
New planet found: Icy 'super-Earth' dominates distant solar system
An international collaboration of astronomers has discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting in the cold outer regions of a distant solar system about 9,000 light-years away. The planet weighs 13 times as much as Earth, and at -330 degrees Fahrenheit, it's one of the coldest planets ever discovered outside our solar system.
Contact: Andrew Gould
gould@astronomy.ohio-state.edu
614-292-1892
Ohio State University
Public Release: 8-Mar-2006
Journal of Neuroscience
Hamster study shows how our brains recognize other individuals
Different areas of the brain react differently when recognizing others, depending on the emotions attached to the memory, a team of Cornell research psychologists has found. The team, led by professor of psychology Robert Johnston, has been conducting experiments to study individual recognition, and the results were published in the Dec. 7, 2005, issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health
Contact: Blaine Friedlander
bpf2@cornell.edu
607-254-8093
Cornell University
Public Release: 8-Mar-2006
Nature
Poison dart frog mimics gain when birds learn to stay away
Studying neotropical poison dart frogs, biologists at the University of Texas at Austin uncovered a new way that the frog species can evolve to look similar, and it hinges on the way predators learn to avoid the toxic, brightly colored amphibians.
Contact: Lee Clippard
lclippard@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-0675
University of Texas at Austin
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