Life Sciences

Pruning Brain Connections May Explain Why Girls Seem To Mature Faster

Newcastle University However, they found that not all projections (long-range connections) between brain ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2013 - 11:45am

Want To Lower Risk Of Child Allergies? Eat More Nuts While Pregnant

"In the meantime, our data support the recent decisions to rescind recommendations that all mothers ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2013 - 6:00am

Peeing Dogs Align With The Earth’s Magnetic Field

became more clear. After taking into account all other factors the researchers concluded they found clear ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2014 - 6:01am

New Genes Are Created From Non-Coding DNA Often, Says Study

ancestral sequences all the time," said Begun. "This is the first example of totally new genes ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 24 2014 - 6:30am

Happy Darwin Day: Beetle He Found 182 Years Ago Named In His Honor

London, isn't all that organized and this wasn't know about until 2008. Chatzimanolis received insects on ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2014 - 10:15am

In Deaf People, The Language They Learned As Kids Affected Brain Structure

means the results can't be applied to all deaf people." Source: Georgetown University Medical ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 6:00pm

Survey Shows Genomics Research Is A Popularity Contest Too

The researchers analyzed all the genome research projects in operation-or projected to launch-and ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2014 - 9:14am

There's A Reason So Many Professional Musicians Are Deaf

among men than women, overall. In all, 238 (0.08%) cases were among professional musicians, who were ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2014 - 10:27pm

Self-Fumigation Actually Is For The Birds

studies found that in some years, maggots kill all the nestlings in nests they parasitize, but spraying ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2014 - 10:00pm

Fairy Circles Apparently Not Created By Termites

a self-organising process. Each mature tree, after all, needs sufficient space and nutrition for its development and ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2014 - 10:47am