Life Sciences

Specialized Microbes Clean Stubborn Chemicals From The Environment

Island, South Carolina – a site contaminated with PCE, a chlorinated chemical similar to TCE. All three ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2014 - 2:49pm

Single-Celled Organism Smashes And Rebuilds Its Own Genome

complex life can be, that it can reassemble all the building blocks of chromosomes." From a practical ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2014 - 3:02pm

Intelligence Inheritance – 3 Genes That Add To Your IQ Score

(with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15). A person who inherits all six copies (note: one ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 30 2015 - 11:01am

Microbial Factories Could Produce Locally Brewed Painkillers

But there are other risks that are rarely evaluated. Despite all the hype and promises that synthetic ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 8 2014 - 11:01pm

Fish Harvests: Natural Processes Cause Dramatic Drops In Populations- So Do Humans

way the air circulates on the globe, all of these regions have winds that blow towards the equator. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2014 - 1:43pm

Twitching In Your Sleep Is More About Mapping The Brain Than Chasing Rabbits

than sleep, not less. To explain how we resolved this paradox, it is important to understand that all ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 3 2014 - 6:00pm

Flies Give Another Twist In The Evolving Story Of Heredity

becoming more and more apparent that Lamarck was at least partially correct. Non-genetic inheritance We all ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 9 2014 - 4:01pm

Giant Kangaroos Were More Likely To Walk Than Hop

(posterior pelvis), to give a powerful advantage to muscles retracing the legs. All of the differences could ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 17 2014 - 12:01pm

Despite Ebola Concern, Global Infection Outbreaks Have Been Declining For Decades

have come from bats. In all, such diseases caused 56 percent of outbreaks since 1980.  This is a global ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2014 - 10:36am

It's Time To Revise How We Classify Life On Earth

process remains subjective and there has been no attempt to standardize practices across all species on ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 12 2014 - 6:00pm