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Hi folks, ScienceBlogs has grown an incredible amount since we got started—our 75 bloggers have composed over 88000 posts, and as a community we have generated over a million comments. With all this activity, we’ve been feeling some …

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ScienceBlogs upgrade. ScienceBlogs is upgrading to Movable Type 4. During the upgrade process there will be no new posts or comments. Everything is supposed to be back to normal in 36 hours. What could possibly go rong? …

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So it seems there is another advantage to owning a hybrid! It can double as an emergency generator in case of a blackout:…

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I’m not sure how I feel about this. . . the Doctor should not be younger than I am!…

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Let’s assume imagine that there are good ways to handle all the worries about GM-crops in the world that I raised in my last post — that there won’t be collateral damage among the non-targeted species, that the targeted species won’t …

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I think of her now as the Tea Lady, because she was drinking tea when I met her and had an English accent to go along with her English colonial outfit. She was one of the first native white South Africans I had met on…

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Males buzz at 400Hz, females at 600Hz; when they mate, they harmonise at 1200 Hz.

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That pesky buzz of a nearby mosquito is the sound of love, scientists have known for some time. But a new Cornell study reports that males and females flap their wings and change their tune to create a harmonic duet just before mating.

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The study, funded by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, was led by Prof. Clive Ballard’s King’s College London team and is published in Lancet Neurology on Jan. 9.

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