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© 2005-2012 Geology.com. All Rights Reserved. Images, code and content of this website are property of Geology.com. Use without permission is prohibited. Pages on this site are protected by Copyscape.By gluing radio chips to the backs of 800 honeybees, researchers proved that Neonicotinoid pesticides interfere with their behavior. Greg Laden reports that bees exposed to the common aphid-killer "forage abnormally, have 'olfactory memory' problems, are easily disoriented and become poor learners." Fewer of them ever return to the colony. Laden observes, "One thing that strikes me as especially interesting here is that many bees don't make it back over a fairly long period of time even under normal conditions, and that some bees stay out overnight!" Another likely contributor to Colony Collapse Disorder is a tiny parasitic fly that lays its eggs inside a living bee. Dr.
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kseniakrasileva @KamounLab Oh, I certainly do not feel under-cited, especially in this review! Yep, the PLoS One and the PNAS papers go together. 2 days ago · reply · retweet · favoriteThe Astrobiology Web | Your Online Guide to the Living Universe
»» Is a new form of life really so alien? [Saturday, May 19, 2012] The idea of discovering a new form of life has not only excited astronomers and astrobiologists for decades, but also the wider public.
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Two studies point to contamination of patient samples as the cause of a controversial 2009 finding that linked the mouse virus XMRV with chronic fatigue syndrome More than a dozen researchers voice their concerns about a 2010 paper that claims bacteria can use arsenic in place of phosphorus in its DNA and other biomolecules
May 17 2012 I hadn’t planned for this topic to take over my blog this week, but it happens. Judging by the comments there is significant interest in the issue of consciousness, and Kastrup and I are just getting to the real nub of the argument. So here is another installment – a reply to Kastrup’s latest offering. First, however, some background. Materialism, Dualism, and Idealism
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