Life Sciences

Blue-Eyed People Have One Common Ancestor

variation Variation in the color of the eyes from brown to green can all be explained by the amount of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2008 - 9:30pm

The Neuropsychological Connection To Selflessness (And Religion)

universal unity and decreased sense of self, is a core tenet of all major religions. Meditation and prayer ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2008 - 11:50am

Happy Squidurday!*

fabulous, spanning ages six to sixty, at least. We all had a blast. Some of us even had a blast of squid eye ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 11 2009 - 12:11am

Reconstructing The Black Death Pathogen's Genome

trees place the reconstructed genome close to the ancestral node of all human strains of the pathogen, ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Oct 15 2011 - 7:45am

Saltwater Crocodiles Return To Darwin

biologist, Adam Britton, and others, can now be explained. Historically the “salties” lived all over northern ...

Blog Post - Bill Boesenberg - Jul 5 2012 - 11:41pm

No Hummingbird Collapse; They're In A Boom

all checklists submitted from Southern California today. Because the pattern is consistent year-round, ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2017 - 7:36am

Plant Kin Recognition? (Caution- Anthropocentrism Ahead)

all of evolution, last time I checked, plants have been evolving for a long time. And there is no ...

Article - Jonathan Eisen - Jun 12 2008 - 11:54am

Proteomics And The Hunt For Disease-Causing Molecules

initially detected by all the labs involved but they had been rejected in later analyses.  "Our ...

Article - News Staff - May 19 2009 - 5:12pm

Pegasus- A Load Of Horse Feathers?

a broad generalisation, all of these structures are formed of keratin in a dermal layer.  The genes ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 15 2010 - 5:54pm

Promiscuous Females May Be Key To Species' Survival

all-female offspring will carry the SR chromosome, which will be passed on to their sons in turn resulting in ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:03pm