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MPR 1/2013

“Those in the darkness you don’t see.” Modern cosmology lends thisline from “The Ballad of Mack the Knife” in Brecht’s Threepenny Opera an unexpected currency: the universe lies largely in darkness. This doesn’t refer to the fact that the night sky is black, but rather that dark energy and dark matter – two previously completely unknown substances – account for 96 percent of the total cosmic mass. [more]

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Behavioural Biology . Developmental Biology

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Cuckolded males sing louder

August 23, 2012

Rock sparrows indicate their age and their reproductive success with their songs and react to infidelity with a higher song volume [more]

Behavioural Biology

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You snooze, you lose

August 09, 2012

Less sleep leads to more offspring in male pectoral sandpipers [more]

Behavioural Biology

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Caught in the act: Bats use the sound of copulating flies as a cue for foraging

July 23, 2012

Noisy wing movements during mating make flies an easy prey [more]

Behavioural Biology . Ecology

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Thieving rodents as saviours of tropical trees

July 18, 2012

Agoutis disperse tree seeds in the rain forest of Latin America [more]

Behavioural Biology . Physiology

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Humidity increases odour perception in terrestrial hermit crabs

July 04, 2012

Olfaction in land crabs is still in an early transitional stage between life in water and on land [more]

Behavioural Biology . Evolutionary Biology

When reputation is at stake, punishment becomes more responsible

June 19, 2012

Reputation could be the deciding factor in the evolution of cooperation and punishment [more]

Behavioural Biology . Neurosciences

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Flies process attractive and deterrent odours in different brain areas

April 25, 2012

Newly developed analytic device Flywalk allows accurate studies of insect behaviour to be made [more]

Behavioural Biology

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Wild birds respond differently to the first long days of a year

April 24, 2012

For great tits spring does not always start at the same time [more]

 
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