Life Sciences

Passive California Species May Fall Prey To Eastern Invader Snakes

would hurt their feelings. It's like Canada, except the women are all in Daisy Duke shorts and ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2014 - 6:33pm

Cracking The Code Of How The Brain Processes Emotions

Feelings are personal and subjective, just like all of psychology, but the human brain turns them ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 2:27pm

Sometimes Good Gut Bacteria Get Sick

We all know what happens to us when we get sick, but at least we have a microbiota to protect us. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2014 - 6:31pm

Ecological Niche Visualized: 14 Fish Get A Four-Dimensional Food Diagram

We're all aware of the concept of an ecological food niche and a web that extends from it- but ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2014 - 2:27pm

Bioinformatics Tool Shows Impact Of Probiotics On Gut Microbiota

anything at all and, if they are, that it is helping.  Probiotics are defined by marketing groups as ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 14 2014 - 6:10pm

Human Gut Bacteria Much Different Than Apes

relatives, the African apes. What does that mean? No one knows, but the microbiome is all the latest rage in ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2014 - 9:45pm

How Animals Use Numerical Competence To Make Decisions

chimpanzees and hyenas will not attack at all if they don't have superior numbers. These animals use ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 29 2014 - 11:54am

Functional Gene Transfer: How A Sea Slug Came To Photosynthesize Like A Plant

it with all the food it needs.  Importantly, this is one of the only known examples of functional ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2015 - 4:27pm

Sex Chromosomes: Why The Y Genes Matter

dramatically smaller than the X chromosome and has already lost nearly all of the 640 genes it once shared with ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2015 - 12:08pm

New Mechanism For Male Infertility Discovered

involuntary childlessness- is common, and in half of all cases attributable to infertility in the man. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2015 - 1:30pm