Life Sciences

Risk Of Extinction Accelerated Due To Interacting Human Threats

blast fishing, coastal development and pollution, all of which directly or indirectly kill the corals ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2007 - 1:17am

100 Million Rodents A Year

all other sujects save the rat and the bird? 5. What does the accumulated wisdom about murine ...

Article - Greg Critser - Mar 4 2007 - 9:29pm

Spiders Get Extreme To Enforce Fidelity In Mates

spiders also have this ‘plugging mechanism’. What they all have in common is that the female attempts to ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2007 - 1:04am

Human Pubic Lice Acquired From Gorillas Gives Evolutionary Clues

people on bath towels all the time. So it is easy to imagine that gorilla lice could have transmitted to ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2007 - 2:12am

Even Newborn Neurons Want To Hang With The Cool Crowd

Chunmei Zhao, Ph.D., Antonella Consiglio, Ph.D., staff scientist Henriette van Praag, Ph.D., all at the ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2007 - 1:48pm

Study Of Protein Folds Offers Insight Into Metabolic Evolution

synthesizing them," Caetano-Anollés said. "We see that all the enzymes that were involved in purine ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2007 - 9:59am

Essential Tones Of Music Rooted In Human Speech

unaware of this exposure." No music, except modern experimental pieces, uses all 12 tones. Most music ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2007 - 12:30pm

Untangling The Logic Of Gene Circuits

in all cells. This is still mainly just a hope though; although there are some increasingly ...

Article - Michael White - Jun 26 2007 - 10:19pm

Ability To Listen To 2 Things At Once Is Largely Inherited, Says Study

and height. Conversely, the ability to understand the filtered words showed high correlation among all ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2007 - 12:40am

Plant Hormone De-Represses Genes, Aids Defense And Reproduction

and then on the other hand, to feed back control and keep it shut down all the time when the response ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2007 - 12:44pm