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Ants Are Friendly To Some Trees, But Not Others

by mokosam on November 10, 2009

Tree-dwelling ants generally live in harmony with their arboreal hosts. But new research suggests that when they run out of space in their trees of choice, the ants can get destructive to neighboring trees.
The research, published in the November issue of the American Naturalist, is the first to document that ants bore into live trees, [...]

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Consumers face a barrage of product claims each day. What makes those claims believable? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says both marketers and consumers can benefit from information about the way people process product claims.
Authors Elise Chandon (Virginia Tech) and Chris Janiszewski (University of Florida) began their research by identifying four [...]

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Research conducted by a team in Switzerland suggests that a family of genes involved in regulating the expression of other genes in the brain is responsible for helping us deal with external inputs such as stress. Their results, appearing in the journal Neuron, may also give a clue to why some people are more susceptible [...]

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