Life Sciences

1,000 potential new species. The researchers hope to complete an all-bird DNA inventory by 2011. Given ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2007 - 1:41am

Mr. Gould has divided into four subgroups. All these species are peculiar to this archipelago; and so ...

Article - Michael White - Nov 3 2009 - 9:38pm

bunch of genetic switches are activated to make them grow. To cut short, the bodies of all animals are ...

Blog Post - Emmanuelle Savigny - Dec 5 2010 - 4:27pm

then a key point is not to forcefully twist the brain to do Y. Like all animal brains, human brains are ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Aug 2 2011 - 12:24pm

lionesses stalk the gazelle. Silently creeping up to the ungulate until the last moment when all hell ...

Article - Bharat Srinivasa - Oct 26 2011 - 10:10am

a parent weigh their own reproductive potential (r = 1.00) against that of their offspring (r = 0.5)? All ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Aug 19 2009 - 3:58pm

fundamental biological process in all of our bodies. Countless times a day, our cells grow and divide to ...

Article - Aubrey Chen - Dec 22 2009 - 12:58pm

binary system. It is almost as dynamic as trying to think of all of the things your brain is doing right now ...

Article - Mark Berman - Jan 27 2010 - 9:25pm

pro-labeling advocates maintain, almost all academic studies have made the point that rather than facilitating ...

Article - Jon Entine - Sep 17 2012 - 4:32pm

gene into a plant. After all, the virus manages to do that for its own purposes. That goal never ...

Article - Steve Savage - Oct 8 2013 - 12:08am

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