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The study is a major baseline for plant conservation and is the first time that the true extent of the threat to the world’s estimated 380,000 plant species is known, announced as governments are to meet in Nagoya, Japan in mid-October 2010 to set new targets at the United Nations Biodiversity Summit. Scientists from the... 

This research represents a significant breakthrough in the development of superior silk fibers for both medical and non-medical applications,” said Malcolm J. Fraser Jr., a Notre Dame professor of biological sciences. “The generation of silk fibers having the properties of spider silks has been one of the important... 

In his new book, “Honeybee Democracy,” Thomas Seeley, professor of neurobiology and behavior, describes the elaborate decision-making process that honeybees (Apis mellifera) use when they make the life-or-death choice of a new nesting cavity. When a hive becomes overpopulated, two-thirds of the worker bees and the... 

Health & Medicine * Genes * Personalized Medicine * Gene Therapy * Human Biology * Diseases and Conditions * Children’s Health Reference * Heritability * Human genome * Genetics * Personalized medicine Known as the GIANT (Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits) Consortium,... 

For 40 years, scientists have concluded from this type of behavior that a few species are self-aware — they recognize the boundaries between themselves and the physical world. Because chimps, our closest relatives, pass the test, while almost all other primate species fail it, scientists began to discuss a “cognitive... 

NEW DELHI: Concerns over infrastructural bottlenecks notwithstanding, Indian business tycoons continue to build upon their sizeable cash piles, with a record 69 billionaires featuring in Forbes India’s Rich List for 2010. “Amid further disenchantment with national infrastructure undertakings, such as the botched... 

Nokia announced today that it has begun shipping its new and long-awaited N8 smartphone. The phone’s availability will vary by country and carrier, but customers who preordered online or through a Nokia retail store will be the first in line to get the N8, the company said. A broader rollout will also take place over the... 

A project between Intel and Korea Telecom is aiming to turn South Korea into the first country with nationwide WiMax coverage. The two companies announced today the expansion of their effort to roll out WiMax-based high-speed Internet service throughout South Korea. Currently available in Seoul, Inchon, and Suwon, the expanded... 

To mark the first anniversary of Microsoft Security Essentials, the company has released some sobering statistics it has gathered during the past year via the free anti-malware software. According to Microsoft, Security Essentials has been installed on 31 million computers worldwide. Out of that group, 27 million users reported... 

Google is addressing one of the biggest complaints new Gmail users have about the service: it’s giving users a way to turn off threaded messages. The company plans to start letting users toggle between Gmail’s threaded “conversation” view–which groups messages with the same subject in the in-box–and...