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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

ScienceDaily: Top Science News

ScienceDaily: Top Science News


Mathematics or memory? Study charts collision course in brain

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT

You already know it's hard to balance your checkbook while simultaneously reflecting on your past. Now, researchers -- having done the equivalent of wire-tapping a hard-to-reach region of the brain -- can tell us how this impasse arises.

Tigers take the night shift to coexist with people

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:39 PM PDT

Tigers don't have a reputation for being accommodating, but a new study indicates that the feared and revered carnivores in and around a park in Nepal are taking the night shift to better coexist with their human neighbors. The revelation that tigers and people are sharing the same space flies in the face of long-held convictions in conservation circles. It also underscores how successful conservation efforts need sciences that takes into account both nature and humans.

Research reveals contrasting consequences of a warmer Earth

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:38 PM PDT

A new study involving analysis of fossil and geological records going back 540 million years suggests that biodiversity on Earth generally increases as the planet warms. But the research says that the increase in biodiversity depends on the evolution of new species over millions of years, and is normally accompanied by extinctions of existing species.

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