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Birds identify 'rogue' eggs by their colour

The cuckoo is notorious for fooling other birds into hatching its eggs, but there are birds that have the ability to catch them out.

Colour alerts birds to foreign eggs

Some birds are skilled at detecting imposters' eggs in their nests because they recognise that the shell colour is suspect, says an international research team that included New Zealand scientists.

Microsoft's Ballmer finds eggs don't suit him

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The first thing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thought of when a Hungarian student attacked him with eggs this week was that he had to keep his suit clean, he said on Thursday.

How birds spot the cuckoo in the nest

It's not always easy spotting the cuckoo in the nest. But if you don't, you pay a high price raising someone else's chick. How hosts distinguish impostor eggs from their own has long puzzled scientists. The problem remained largely unsolved while looking at it through our own eyes. It was only when people started thinking from the birds' perspective that they began to understand how hosts recognise a cuckoo egg in the nest. Marcel Honza from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic explains that birds see UV wavelengths that are well outside our own visual range. Knowing that many bird eggs reflect UV wavelengths, Honza wondered whether altering the reflected UV spectrum of an egg would affect a bird's ability to recognise it as foreign and reject it.

Healthy bacteria found inside chicken eggs

U.S. scientists say they've found chickens don't get the intestinal bacteria necessary for good health from the environment, but are born with the bacteria.

Healthy Bacteria Found Inside Chicken Eggs

U.S. scientists say they've found chickens don't get the intestinal bacteria necessary for good health from the environment, but are born with the bacteria.

Healthy bacteria found inside chicken eggs

U.S. scientists say they've found chickens don't get the intestinal bacteria necessary for good health from the environment, but are born with the bacteria.

Strange world: Big Bang and broken eggs A TEAM of physicists has claimed that our view of the early universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang. The discovery comes from studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB), light emitt

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Healthy Intestinal Bacteria Live Within Chicken Eggs

The conventional wisdom among scientists has long been that birds acquire the intestinal bacteria that are a necessary for good health from their environment, but a new University of Georgia study finds that chickens are actually born with those bacteria.

Forget college, they scrimp just to buy eggs

Consumers are feeling worse about their personal finances and prospects - far worse than government statistics about the economy would indicate.

Online retail entrepreneurs shouldn`t put all their eggs in an eBay basket

Having started on eBay as an online retailer in 2003, RockBottomGolf.com CEO Tom Rath knows a thing or two about selling on the world`s biggest online auction.

Ruined by 401(k) Predators

Retirees with plump nest eggs can be targets for unscrupulous financial advisers who rake in hefty fees with promises of huge returns

Endangered sea dragon at Ga. aquarium pregnant

A male weedy sea dragon carries eggs on his tail at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Thursday, June 11, 2008. For only the third time ever in a U.S. aquarium, one of the endangered creatures is pregnant.

City approves chicken ordinance

Fort Collins, Colo., residents may soon be able to eat fresh-laid eggs if officials give final approval to a measure allowing people to house up to as six hens.

New-style bird flu vaccine shows promise

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new-style bird flu vaccine made using monkey cells instead of chicken eggs appears to be safe and effective, corporate researchers reported on Wednesday.

New-style bird flu vaccine shows promise

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new-style bird flu vaccine made using monkey cells instead of chicken eggs appears to be safe and effective, corporate researchers reported on Wednesday.

California Squid Fishery Uses JW Fishers Underwater Camera

JW Fishers' (East Taunton, Massachusetts) DV-1 underwater camera is being used to quantify the number of eggs being produced by California squid fisheries. This drop video system has a high- resolution camera mounted on a 250-foot depth-rated housing equipped with two powerful 100-watt tungsten halogen lights. The DV-1 is lowered close to the bottom and observers can see the size and distribution of the gelatinous egg beds far below. This provides researchers with hard data on the health and sustainability of the squid population, said the company.

Scientist: Hybrid embryos produced quickly

British scientists say they have produced nearly 300 hybrid embryos since they began inserting human DNA into cow eggs in January.

Inflation: 4 portfolio locks

No matter how bad it gets, the same investing rules always apply: don't put all your nest eggs in one basket.

Banded Birds Also Boisterous

May 23--LIMA -- This was the first time in five years of peregrine falcon mating that all the eggs didn't hatch.

Scientist: Hybrid embryos produced quickly

Newcastle -- British scientists say they have produced nearly 300 hybrid embryos since they began inserting human DNA into cow eggs in January.

Google holds contest for developers

If calculating the maximum height at which an egg won't break when dropped while sacrificing the least number of eggs sounds like a worthy challenge to a programmer, then this year's Google Code Jam may be of interest. "

Google holds contest for developers

If calculating the maximum height at which an egg won't break when dropped while sacrificing the least number of eggs sounds like a worthy challenge to a programmer, then this year's Google Code Jam may be of interest. "

Science thinks big for better IVF

A new IVF technique involves selecting sperm with a shape and size that indicate good genetic quality. The best are injected into eggs to fertilise them. Results show improved pregnancy rates

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