Researchers say that a protein expressed in the human retina, human cryptochrome 2 protein (hCRY2), can sense magnetic fields when implanted into Drosophila, leading to an interesting topic in sensory biology; perhaps humans have an innate magnetic sense.
Migratory birds and sea turtles do, and that ability to sense the Earth's magnetic field is how they navigate long-distance voyages during migration.
A study in Canada says Canadian pre-schoolers prefer to play with kids more like them.
Are Canadian parents ingraining bias in their kids? Or French-Canadians? Hard to know. Participants were recruited from six daycares located in Montreal and its suburbs: 30 mostly second-generation Asian-Canadians and 30 French-Canadians. Children were paired with peers they had known for at least three months. According to the research team, social mores likely prompted a lack of interaction between cultures.
A new study shows that the rate of sea-level rise along the U.S. Atlantic coast is greater now than at any time in the past 2,000 years - and a consistent link between changes in global mean surface temperature and sea level.
A group of biologists have discovered seven previously unknown species of mammals on Luzon Island in the Philippines.
All of the species are forest mice, and each species lives only in a small part of Luzon. Two of the new species live only in the Zambales Mountains (on Mt. Tapulao), two live only on Mt. Banahaw (south of Manila), two only in the Mingan Mountains of Aurora Province, and one lives only in the Sierra Madre of northeastern Luzon.
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet
and Helsinki University
are reporting that DCDC2, a gene linked to dyslexia, has a surprising biological function: it controls cilia, the antenna-like projections that cells use to communicate.
Sexting, where people send photographs and sexually explicit text messages to titillate them and perhaps increase the likelihood of a sexual relationship, is a fairly new phenomenon.
The Internet has made the act of infidelity much easier and though sex and infidelity are now only a keyboard away, the goal for many seems to remain physical, face-to-face contact, at least in sexual relationships. Obviously plenty of people lie or try to initiate cyber-relationships with no interest in actual human contact.
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