Life Sciences

Are Birds Accelerating Their Rate Of Evolution?

of all birds are found near the equator, it was expected that speciation there would be more common. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2012 - 3:47pm

White Light, White Noise, White Odor?

all the scents to be identical.  A research team in the Neurobiology Department at Weizmann Institute ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2012 - 1:00pm

Ventral Striatum And Insular Cortex: Risk Aversion Is Visible In The Brain

Weber, co-author and also from Bonn. "This is important so that all subjects, whether they are risk ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2012 - 11:07am

Dogs May Be Even More Awesome: Canine Virus May Lead To Better Vaccines

the vaccine.  "We can use this virus as a vector for all kinds of pathogens that are difficult to ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2012 - 3:30pm

Shoot Apical Meristem: Plant Organ Development Breakthrough

crucial plant hormone brassinosteroid in the creation of plant-shoot architecture.   Like all organisms, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2012 - 7:00am

Harlequin weaponry

not seem to be a threat at all, but something happened in one population in America: Inbreeding ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 12 2012 - 2:20pm

Male Bushcrickets Are Boss: Spermatophores Can Be 40 Percent Of Their Bodyweight

veluchianus had transferred almost no sperm at all to either type of female. The researchers conclude from ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2012 - 12:30pm

Great Lakes Phragmites Map Visualizes Invasive Species Incursions

US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). have mapped the coastline of all five U.S. Great Lakes using ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2013 - 1:05pm

Cognitive Map: How The Brain Organizes Everything We See

space" that was common to all the study subjects. The results are presented in multicolored, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2012 - 1:50am

Plant Sex Gets Hot

chromosome – but it's all a matter of timing. The process begins two-to-three hours earlier at the end ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 1 2013 - 12:07pm