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The Current Biology journal hosts a study made by a team led by Martin Muller, a biological anthropologist at Boston University, on chimp's sexual habits: "The stereotypical view of human mating involves males wanting to be promiscuous and females being coy, but in chimps you see young females ... [read more>>]
Weak male crayfish often let dominant males faking sex with them, the weak ones taking submissive and female-like positions. While a lot shorter in duration, these sexual acts limit aggressiveness between them and boost survival chances of submissive, or weaker, crayfish. This form of portraying hi ... [read more>>]
The scientists came up with Starfish, a robot able to detect damage taken and take steps to limit or repair damages. Lead author of the self-repairing robot research, Josh Bongard of the University of Vermont: "We never officially named it, but we usually refer to it as the Starfish robot, eve ... [read more>>]
Scientists from the A&M University in Texas managed, using genetics, to alter cotton in order for its seeds not to contain gossypol; the finding could help finding proteins capable of feeding a lot of people, as shown in the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Ke ... [read more>>]
As research shows 60 percent of those having lost their licenses for DUI drive anyway, MADD asks that attention and effort be increased on preventing DUI accidents. Glynn Birch, national president of MADD: "The real possibility of eliminating drunk driving in this country is a powerful, even a ... [read more>>]
Toshiba launched the first Class 4 card, an 8Gb SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) card. Huge capacity flash cards like 32Gb and 64Gb USB still have the lead, but the new 8Gb SDHC targets photographers shooting in RAW, and video camera owners wanting prolonged shooting time. A Class 4 card write ... [read more>>]
The worm that froze Second Life created gold rings multiplying as users tried to interact with them, pushing Linden Labs servers to their limit. Linden Labs had to suspend all activity on servers, except for maintenance tasks (cleaning up the grey goo worm). The Second Life World Second Life (SL) ... [read more>>]
Scientists from Harvard Medical School and the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna swapped the aggression gene between boy and girl-fruit flies, influencing fruit fly fight techniques. Fighting techniques of girl fruit flies (shoving and head butts) differ greatly to boy fruit flies techniqu ... [read more>>]
Both Protect Data's board and Monterro Holding (largest shareholder with over 10 pct) support Check Point's offer and encourage shareholders to act upon it, as acceptance from over 90pct of shareholders is needed. Protect Data owns Pointsec Mobile Technologies, which was targeted by Check Point. ... [read more>>]
Nintendo Wii's launch even made some camp for several days, in order to be sure not to miss their chance on grabbing a couple of Wii consoles. NY Times Square Toys "R" Us store had one thousand people waiting in line for the launch, while the GameStop store at Hollywood's Universal City W ... [read more>>]