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Orangutan in Sarawak, Borneo. (Credit: iStockphoto/Charles Taylor)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2010) — Research into the long calls of male Orangutans in Borneo has given scientists new insight into how these solitary apes communicate through dense jungle. An acoustic analysis of the calls, published in Ethology, reveals that the calls not only serve to attract females, but [...]

 
The Sun's "Great Conveyor Belt." The Great Conveyor Belt is a massive circulating current of fire (hot plasma) within the Sun. It has two branches, north and south, each taking about 40 years to perform one complete circuit. Researchers believe the turning of the belt controls the sunspot cycle. Image credit: NASA

(PhysOrg.com) — The recent [...]

Governments need to crack down on illegal tiger trading if the big cats are to be saved, the UN has warned.

There are now considerably more tigers in captivity than in the wild.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in Doha, Qatar heard that tiger numbers are continuing to fall.
Organised crime rings are [...]

This video frame grab image provided by NASA, taken in Dec. 2009, shows a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is related to a shrimp, where a NASA team lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet and a curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then even parked [...]

Electron microscopy enabled researchers to see for the first time how a bacteria that kills grape vines is able to move through the plants at the cell level. (Credit: (Photo courtesy of Texas AgriLife Research))

ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2010) — Like a band of detectives surveying the movement of a criminal, researchers using photographic technology have [...]

This is one of the Webb Telescope 1/3 scale sunshield membranes undergoing final inspection at Nexolve in Hunstville, Ala. (Credit: Nexvolve)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2010) — Keeping an infrared telescope at very cold operating temperatures isn't an option, it's an absolute necessity. For the James Webb Space Telescope to see the traces of infrared light generated [...]

An audibility map showing the intelligibility that would be experienced by a listener in every part of a room with a lot of echoes. (Credit: Image courtesy of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2010) — Innovative sound-mapping software based on human hearing has been developed to help architects design out unwanted noise. [...]

Purple loosestrife is an invasive plant. (Credit: iStockphoto/Ellen Morgan)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2010) — The flowering plant — purple loosestrife — has been heading north since it was first introduced from Europe to the eastern seaboard 150 years ago. This exotic invader chokes out native species and has dramatically altered wetland habitats in North America. But [...]

Elevation contours outline tree heights, allowing for research on effects of light on the forest. (Credit: James Clark)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2010) — It's a paradox that's puzzled scientists for a half-century. Models clearly show that the coexistence of competing species depends on those species responding differently to the availability of resources. Then why do studies [...]

ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2010) — Unmanageable volumes of data accumulate in our digitized working world. Scientists are developing analytical techniques that make use of our ability to identify complex data relationships by means of pictorial images.

Scientists at the Fraunhofer IGD are developing analytical techniques based on our ability to identify complex relationships with the aid [...]