Life Sciences

Anthropologists Challenge Darwinius Masillae's Missing Link Status

well-preserved fossil doesn't mean it's going to overthrow all our ideas," says Williams, the lead ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2010 - 1:32pm

Tips And Tricks For Sexing Squid

technique won't be broadly applicable. There is one sexing technique that can work across all ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Mar 4 2010 - 8:50pm

Our Genes Don't Make Us Unique?

many, but not all, of these differences in binding and expression levels are heritable. In the Science ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2010 - 2:12pm

Songbirds Enlighten Study Of Speech Production

networks. "When the signal is passed on at a branch point, it is an all-or-nothing transmission, in ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2010 - 1:56pm

Oceanic Dispersal Drove Blind Snake Evolution

Indigascar, leaving an endemic living family as evidence on Madagascar, how did they get to all of those other ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:06pm

MiRNAs- How Viruses Manipulate Host Cells

20-30% of all human genes is regulated in this way. "The system acts as a sensitive regulator for ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2010 - 12:47pm

Organic Labels Not For The Birds

  But claims that have nothing at all to do with science, such as that 'organic' food is ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 19 2010 - 10:00pm

Male Antelopes Fake Fear To Have Sex

often – only when they are in estrus, and not by all males. So for them to catch on would require ...

Article - News Staff - May 24 2010 - 11:57am

Kin Selection Denied? The Evolutionary Labyrinth Of Eusociality Gets A Map

of ants alone composes more than half that of all insects, exceeding that of all terrestrial nonhuman ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2010 - 1:40pm

Action Video Games Train Brains For Faster Decisions With No Loss In Accuracy

unit time. If you are a surgeon or you are in the middle of a battlefield, that can make all the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2010 - 12:59pm