Life Sciences

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

Speck Disease Hurts Tomato Fields- Luckily, Science Exists To Fix That

speck disease (Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato) descended on their field. But it was all done on ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2015 - 8:41am