Sydney, April 28 : A new Australian study has suggested that reef fish, which are stressing about environmental changes, are creating irregular offspring that have wonky ears.
According to a report by ABC News, the study shows a clear link between mothers producing the stress hormone cortisol, and the development of asymmetrical ears in the offspring of the common coral reef fish, Pomacentrus amboinensis.
Most animals produce the hormone cortisol as a response to stress. Reef fish typically produce it in response to an encounter with a predator.
"Cortisol is needed for development," said study lead author Dr Monica Gagliano of James Cook University in Townsville.
Washington, Apr 28 : In a new study, researchers have shown that early brain activity could provide a better understanding of the neural basis of reading.
Led by Piers Cornelissen, Morten Kringelbach, Ian Holliday and Peter Hansen from the Universities of York, Oxford, Aston, and Birmingham UK, the study showed very early interactions between the vision and language domains during reading.
Washington, April 28 : Physicists are using the phenomenon dubbed as `spooky action' to distinguish between two similar quantum devices.
`Quantum ghosts' are far distant particles that can somehow `talk' to each other, a theory put forward by famous scientist Albert Einstein, who called it `spooky action at a distance'.
Having confirmed its existence, scientists today are learning how to use this `spooky action' as a helpful tool.
Washington, April 28 : New scientific evidence suggests that dinosaur bones from the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the San Juan Basin, USA, date from after the mass extinction event, and that dinos may have survived in a remote area of what is now New Mexico and Colorado for up to half a million years, in a scenario resembling that of the fictional `Lost World'.
This controversial new research, is based on detailed chemical investigations of the dinosaur bones, and evidence for the age of the rocks in which they are found.
London, April 28 : In a new research, ecologists have determined that hurricanes can reduce the ability of forests to store carbon dioxide (CO2) and turn them into overall emitters of the toxic greenhouse gas.
According to a report in New Scientist, for the research, ecologist Jeffrey Chambers of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and his colleagues, took the example of the forests in the US, which have been severely affected by the destruction wrecked by hurricanes over the past 150 years.
Washington, April 28 : In a new study, scientists have determined that solar energy has the potential to improve the living conditions of poor rural households in India as well as contribute to the country''s future energy security.
The study was done bv Professor Govindasamy Agoramoorthy from Tajen University, who is Tata-Sadguru Visiting Chair, and Dr. Minna Hsu from the National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan.
Washington, Apr 28 : In a new study, researchers have shown that early brain activity could provide a better understanding of the neural basis of reading.
Washington, April 28 : Physicists are using the phenomenon dubbed as `spooky action' to distinguish between two similar quantum devices.
Washington, April 28 : New scientific evidence suggests that dinosaur bones from the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the San Juan Basin, USA, date from after the mass extinction event, and that dinos may have survived in a remote area of what is now New Mexico and Colorado for up to half a million years, in a scenario resembling that of the fictional `Lost World'.
London, April 28 : In a new research, ecologists have determined that hurricanes can reduce the ability of forests to store carbon dioxide (CO2) and turn them into overall emitters of the toxic greenhouse gas.
Washington, April 28 : In a new study, scientists have determined that solar energy has the potential to improve the living conditions of poor rural households in India as well as contribute to the country''s future energy security.
