Life Sciences

Arctic Surprise- A Tropical, Freshwater, Asian Turtle Puts A New Twist In Ancient Migration

There's evidence that this volcanic activity happened all around the planet—not just the Arctic. If it all ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2009 - 11:55am

Recipe For Making Adult Stem Cells Behave Like Embryonic Just Got A Little Simpler

all three germ layers. When injected into mouse embryos, the 1F iPS cells also found their way into ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2009 - 1:01pm

Oh Genetic Drift, Take A Random Walk With Me

can cause changes that have no use at all but that become permanent in a population.  The smaller the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 12 2015 - 10:46am

Darwin Browsing Over Late Afternoon Coffee

contemporary. All the paraphernalia of a modern natural history museum—real fossils, accurate models of ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 12 2009 - 5:37pm

Hypersexual? Compulsive Gambler? Blame Dopamine (But Only If You Have Parkinson's Disease Too)

the affected patients were all taking therapeutic doses. Very low doses, such as those used to treat ...

Article - Erin Richards - Apr 8 2009 - 2:36pm

Can Old Genes Learn New Tricks?

all developmental genes are candidates for such recruitment, not just the genes whose development ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2009 - 5:43pm

Tame Silver Foxes And The Origin Of Dogs

they weren't even all that cool in the first place. So, whatever.  Don't try to argue with ...

Article - Andrew Lamperski - May 26 2009 - 9:57am

Excess Baggage Or Genomic Force Of Nature? Junk DNA Gets Some New Respect

rearrangement of the entire genome that is necessary for the organism to grow.   It all happens very quickly. ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2009 - 12:31pm

Cooperation Among Predatory Animals- Biology Part 6

complex social groups (wolves, horses, and humans). In all cases, the degree of socialization is also ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Jun 10 2009 - 1:59pm

Darwinism And Mating- The Evolution Of Sexual Selection

choice will evolve in a particular species.  And perhaps the biggest question of all: How does all of ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2009 - 5:18pm