Life Sciences

'Activitystat', Not Physical Education In School, Drives Activity Levels In Kids

very little PE time compensated by cranking up their activity at home, so that over the week, they all ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2009 - 7:19am

Your Cold Nose- Why Humans Can't Catch Bird Flu

would be impossible to develop vaccines against all 16 subtypes of avian flu, so we need to prioritise. ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2009 - 11:28am

Nocturnal Owl Monkey Teaches Us Some Things About Primate Eye Evolution

all develop in the growing embryo from a single type of immature cell, called a retinal progenitor ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2009 - 5:05pm

Stirring The Volcanic Pot For A Hydrothermal Origin Of Life

a series of linked reactions can occur on pyrite surfaces. But like all good hypotheses, there are other ...

Article - Dave Deamer - May 21 2009 - 2:10pm

The Issue of Altruism

neither sustain it under all circumstances, nor can they give it enough momentum to become ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Jun 4 2009 - 5:56pm

New research on a really freaking weird animal

animal on cameras, but it’s all the same individuals coming back,” Dr. Traeholt said. The results showed ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jun 4 2009 - 7:38pm

Protein Cryptography And The Cell's Public Transportation System

an additive effect, so that the researchers did not have to try all 20^15 combinations-  just 20 ...

Article - Michael White - Jun 17 2009 - 4:50pm

In Schizophrenics, Autopilot Still Works, It's Just Different

example, you first of all remember a telephone number as a series of independent figures. But your working ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2009 - 2:00am

'DNA Signature' Found In Human Sperm

Leeds study showed that in human and mouse sperm, not all of the DNA is packaged in the same way. While ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 3 2009 - 11:46am

'S' Is For Anticoagulant Protein

functional protein S die in utero with massive consumptive blood clots, which soak up all available clotting ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:56pm