Life Sciences

Bees Are Closer Genetic Relatives To Ants Than They Are Wasps

paper wasps, according to a new paper.  Ants, bees and stinging wasps all belong to the aculeate ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2013 - 10:02am

Fat But Fit- Dormice Do It, So Can You

periods of arousal, which all hibernating mammals experience, are when most of the fat is burned during ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2013 - 10:36am

11 New Genes Proposed For Alzheimer's Drug Discovery

Consortium, which includes nearly all of the nation's researchers working on the genetics of ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2013 - 1:49pm

Animal Free Will? Their Personalities Are Unpredictable, Just Like Ours

never been studied in animals, the authors say. "We all know someone who is notoriously ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2013 - 11:17am

Was Clay The Birthplace Of Life?

have carried out the complex reactions that formed proteins, DNA and eventually all the machinery that ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2013 - 2:48pm

Getting High? Addicts May Instead Be Seeking Relief From Lows

all the positive, high-pitched calls in the first 35-40 minutes," said Barker. "Then if the ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2013 - 7:30am

Ritalin Reduces Impulsivity In Small Study

accounts for 85% of the entire world's consumption. All this despite the fact that Ritalin was ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2013 - 1:19pm

Panthera Blytheae Fossil Is Oldest Big Cat Species Ever Discovered

of all that mess," Tseng said. For the past three years, Tseng and his team have used both ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2013 - 6:58pm

In Viruses, Tidy Knots Are Faster

perfectly consistent with empirical observations, "including all cases of complete DNA stalling that ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2013 - 6:30am

Pruno: Jailhouse Potato Wine Botulism Is Not As Delicious As It Sounds

anti-toxin. All patients received botulism anti-toxin within 12 hours from being admitted to the ED. Foodborne ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2013 - 2:29pm