Life Sciences

City Mouse Or Country Mouse? What Genetic Claims Tell Us About The Importance Of Design

so, birds face many of the same dilemmas about how best to live life. Larger groups bring risks of ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2014 - 12:33pm

Male Infertility: It's All About The Package

it is necessarily tiny: from head to tail a sperm cell is only about 50 micrometers long (1/500th of ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2014 - 8:59am

Volvox Carteri: What Transgender Algae Reveal About The Evolutionary Origin Of The Sexes

lead to clues about how sex is controlled in other related groups of algae that are used for ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 4:30am

What Cute Koalas Tell Us About The Origins Of The Human Genome

decisions about managing that species. In a recent study, scientists discovered that 39 different  koala ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2014 - 9:01am

Evolutionary Imbalance: Darwin Was Right About Invasive Species

worried, but this would suggest they should be more worried about imports from some parts of the world than ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2014 - 10:01am

What Fish Can Teach You About Trusting Friends

Sometimes it is better to follow the advice of others rather than your own mind even though you seem to have things under control. Not only humans but also fish follow this doctrine as shown by ecologists Jörgen Johnsson and Fredrik Sundström of Göteborg ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2007 - 12:40pm

Blood Clues About Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) believe that blood may hold vital insights into what is happening in the brain of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). In a study unparalleled in its scope, a team led by UNSW Professor Andre ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2007 - 5:14am

More Confusion About Junk DNA And Regulatory Sequences

Back in June, John Greally, a biologist at Albert Einstein, wrote a frustrating Nature commentary on the ENCODE project in which he repeatedly and wrongly suggested that before ENCODE, biologists were only paying attention to regulatory sequences: ...

Article - Michael White - Jul 25 2007 - 10:19am

Papa? Papa? Papa Can You Hear...oh Forget About It Papa!

Previous Article | Next Article  From today's ScienceNOW, to be pondered: Mickey Has Two Mommies By Constance Holden With reporting by Gretchen Vogel. Science NOW Daily News 20 August 2007 ...

Article - Greg Critser - Aug 21 2007 - 11:26am

What Hermaphrodite Melons Can Teach Us About The Evolution Of Sex

A newly discovered function for a hormone in melons suggests it plays a role in how sexual systems evolve in plants. Scientists from several French institutions, led by Abdel Bendahmane of the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), isolated t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2008 - 11:21am