Life Sciences

'Levy Flight' Theory Of Food Foraging In Albatross Overturned, Say Researchers

exhibit Lévy flights really do all forage in the same way.” This research improves scientists’ ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2007 - 5:40pm

Researchers Calculate Speed Of Bacterial Sex

conjugation itself. It is important to consider all natural processes together when trying to predict rates of ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2007 - 12:35am

How Mice Recognize Each Other

a part. For example it is clear that we all have different fingerprints, but it certainly isn’t how we ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 2 2007 - 10:27am

In Epilepsy Genes, Two Wrongs Do Make A Right

essential to create a complete profile of many or even all genes in order to accurately assess the true ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2007 - 4:25pm

Zanzibar Malaria Success: Child Deaths Reduced 75%

between 2005 and 2006, after the distribution of ITNs to this age group. Deaths from all causes in ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2007 - 10:37pm

Species Extinction Could Reduce Productivity Of Plants By Half

all known species could be extinct by the end of this century. Cardinale emphasized that experiments ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2007 - 10:25am

Evolution Of Skin Colors Of The World

the darker the skin. Hmm, if that is the case, why do not all humans have dark skin? Better to protect ...

Article - John Dennehy - Jan 7 2008 - 11:19pm

Shinya Yamanaka Reprograms Human Adult Cells To Function Like Embryonic Stem Cells

which remain the gold standard against which all alternative sources of human pluripotent stem cells ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2007 - 3:58pm

Like Wine? Genetic Expression Of Ripening Grapes Makes The Difference

all'Adige, Italy, investigated ripening Pinot Noir grapes (Vitis vinifera L.) to identify fruit ripening ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2007 - 12:03am

In The Topi Antelope 'Battle Of The Sexes', Females Are The Pursuers

conceive at all, Bro-Jørgensen added. He noted that this reversed sexual conflict might not be a rarity in ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2007 - 12:23pm