Life Sciences

Female Fruit Flies Can Be Too Attractive For Their Own Good

once. But males are doing it all the time. This courtship is unrelenting –– like mosquitoes on a warm ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2009 - 1:32pm

Rifampin- The Antibiotic That Tuberculosis Thrives On

adherence to the six-month tuberculosis chemotherapy. About 5 percent of all TB cases are MDR-TB that is ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 22 2009 - 5:33pm

DNA Sequencing Answers Confounding Questions About Human Evolution

material contained in the nuclei and mitochondria of all body cells--is a hardy molecule and can persist, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 31 2009 - 6:05pm

Energy Inefficiency: The Key To Overcoming Obesity

role remained unclear. After all, Alekseev said, ischemic heart disease really is a modern human ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2010 - 3:09pm

Blame Lousy Airport Security On Evolution

give up on the response," Wolfe explained. "It's all terribly adaptive behavior for ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2010 - 3:03pm

The Neurobiology Of How Brain Cells Process Mathematical Rules

mathematical operations. “First of all we want to understand how neurons process mathematical operations,” said ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2010 - 4:28pm

Survival Of The...Cutest? Why Domestic Dogs Prove Evolution

guarding and companion dogs. They found the companion (or pet) dogs were more variable than all the other ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2010 - 11:57am

How Plants Outsmart Their Two-Faced Pollinators

answer to this question, but it's possible that the hawkmoth, for all its faults, might be a more ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2010 - 2:29pm

Science Clamps Down On Chimpanzee Smugglers

computer program that mapped out the origins of the rescued chimpanzees. We found that all the rescued ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2010 - 2:27pm

Controlling Hv1 Channel In Sperm May Prevent Babies

"All of these events are essential to fertilization," Kirichok said. "You can imagine now ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2010 - 2:24pm