Life Sciences

Alcohol Doesn't Cause Alzheimer's Disease, But It Sure Isn't Helping Any

genes that make them susceptible to Alzheimer’s and exposed all to high levels of ethanol. Compared to ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2023 - 12:49pm

New Bacteria Optimization Could Boost Nitrogen-Fixing In Corn

summed across all Corn Belt acres.” ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2025 - 2:29pm

Conservative? Liberal? It May Be Your Genes

No matter where we are on the political spectrum, we all have the same underlying goals and ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2007 - 9:15pm

Caribbean Frogs Started With A Single, Ancient Voyage On A Raft From South America

regardless of how they got there. "Discovering a single origin for all of these species from throughout ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 6 2007 - 3:24pm

Migration to the Sea Relatively Recent Event for Salmon

How long have salmon been making the trek to the sea, the rivers and back again? We are all ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Feb 23 2009 - 4:50pm

Using Our Genomes To Reconstruct Human Geography

all out, it looks like this: Li, Absher, et al. Science 319:1100-1104 (2008) In this figure, there are ...

Article - Michael White - Mar 22 2008 - 8:56am

Human Slaughter or Natural Competition?

ground sloths, and huge armadillo-like creatures all disappeared within a couple of thousand years ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Apr 13 2009 - 3:00pm

New 'Evolutionary' Theory Takes A Serious Look At Humor

a child has an innate facility. All that differs from one individual to the next is the content of those ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2008 - 2:31pm

Epigenetic What?

evolution. After all, the natural variation among organisms so crucial for natural selection to work had been ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - May 1 2009 - 6:12pm

Calculating The Odds That Life Could Begin By Chance

of the reaction, nothing could be seen, because all the molecules are different. But with each cycle ...

Article - Dave Deamer - Apr 30 2009 - 9:45am