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Kids' Bumblebee Study Creates Buzz in Science Journal

A study published in the prominent British science journal Biology Letters has discovered that bumblebees "can use a combination of color and spatial relationships in deciding which color of flower to forage from." And also, that "science is cool and fun because you get to do stuff that no one has ever done before." Those...

Dance Moves That Attract Women According to Science, Dance Movies

(Sept. 8) -- Sorry flatfoot, but science confirms it: Women dig guys who can dance well. That's the finding of a new study published in the journal Biology Letters that is making the rounds on the Web today. Researchers at Northumbria University in Newcastle Upon Tyne attached electronic sensors to 19 male students at the...

Was Darwin Wrong? An Alternative Theory Emerges

(Aug. 26) -- Until now, Charles Darwin's concept of survival of the fittest and natural selection has been considered the key to the evolution of all living things. But a new study by researchers at the University of Bristol in England and published in Biology Letters suggests "living space," not competition between...

'Zombie' Ants Taken Over by 48M-Year-Old Parasitic Fungus

(Aug. 18) -- Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence -- 48 million years old -- of a fungus that takes over the bodies and minds of ants. "The fungus, which is alive and well in forests today, latches on to carpenter ants as they cross the forest floor before returning to their nests high in the canopy," reports...

Background on biology letters

Biology Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It was split off as a separate journal from the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences in 2005 after having been published as a supplement.

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