Life Sciences

Yawning Is Not About Blood Oxygen, It Is About Cooling The Brain

Why do we yawn? It's unclear. One hypothesis is that yawning helps to increase the oxygen supply but there no association between yawning and blood oxygen levels has been found. Psychologists now have a different notion- that yawning cools the brain. ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2014 - 9:22am

A Modest Proposal About How To Do GMO Food Labeling Right

label should let consumers  know about this extra level of scrutiny conducted for their benefit. ...

Article - Steve Savage - Jun 13 2013 - 3:17pm

High Extinction Rate Does NOT Mean Imminent Mass Extinction- Truth Behind The Climate Slogan

another says it is 100 times the background, most likely this is a difference in view about the background ...

Article - Robert Walker - May 1 2019 - 3:06pm

Twitching In Your Sleep Is More About Mapping The Brain Than Chasing Rabbits

role for the developing brain. We still have much to learn about the specifics of how twitches ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 3 2014 - 6:00pm

5 Important Things To Know About Bird Flu

what you need to know: 1. There’s a lot of it about Bird flu is caused by influenza type A, the same ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 6 2015 - 4:26pm

How To Be A Grown-up About Evolution

side rather than demonize it, which is what is grown-up about his book. One reason for this attitude is ...

Article - Seth Roberts - Feb 3 2008 - 1:18pm

Another Just-So Story, This Time About Fists

serious flaws in both methods and logic. Let me outline just a few. 1) Assumptions about ancestral ...

Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Jan 21 2013 - 4:30am

Getting Fired Up About Synapses

so fired up about the synapse (pun intended).  Well the answer is simple-- understanding how synapses ...

Article - Kathy Murphy - Jul 13 2010 - 9:31am

60 Percent Of Americans Concerned About H1N1 Swine Flu Influenza A Outbreak

Public Health. Public Concern About Risk of Getting Ill Personally Less High Despite a majority believing ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2009 - 9:56am

5 Things You Should Know About Stem Cell Research

at this stage, called blastocysts, are spheres containing about 100 cells that have not yet ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2008 - 6:17pm