Life Sciences

What Is Phonagnosia?

80 per cent of the time, similar to the control group. KH also did well on all music tasks, ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2008 - 12:16pm

So Much For The Absence Of Natural Selection In Modern Human Populations

mind. First, this is by all means  not  a suggestion that women should aim for low paying jobs and drop ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Oct 31 2008 - 3:55pm

Those Dang Transcription Factors

Since all of the cells in your body start with all the same genes, the reason you have a liver, heart, ...

Article - Justin Gerke - Nov 5 2008 - 3:12pm

Discovery- Biosynthesis Essential For Life Would Take 2.3 Billion Years Without Enzymes

are fascinating because they exceed all other known enzymes in their power as catalysts."  ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2008 - 1:53am

Brewer's Yeast Has A Social Life And It Can Teach Us A Lot About Evolution

produce the sticky protein all the time. Rather, they wait until they sense a chemical that tells them ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2008 - 1:50pm

The Vatican And Evolution: The Usual Crap

saying makes any rational sense at all. ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Dec 1 2008 - 8:44pm

Chromosomes Are So 20th Century- Male Genes Really Determine Baby Gender, Says Study

grandchildren are all male. The grandsons have the mf combination of alleles, because they inherited an m from ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2008 - 3:43pm

The Demise Of The 'Genetic Blueprint' Metaphor

and for all ideas like “genetic program” and “genetic blueprint,” thereby also dramatically ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Dec 23 2008 - 2:48pm

Disabling AdPLA Enzyme Lets You Eat Anything And Never Get Obese, If...

eat all day long," said co-lead author Duncan. The researchers also studied whether loss of AdPLA ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 11 2009 - 2:04pm

Newborn Brain Cells Add A Relative Time Stamp, Says Study

memory was formed are engaged as well, providing a hyperlink between all events that happened during ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2009 - 3:01pm