Life Sciences

Whip Spiders Have A Sociable Family Life

siblings stick together until they reach sexual maturity, and all mix in social groups. This is surprising ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2007 - 11:17pm

Einstein Researchers' Discover 'radiation-eating' Fungi

Restore Earth's energy balance. Feed some astronauts. It could all be possible thanks to ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2007 - 9:36pm

Inbred Mice Have A Different Scent

a greater diversity of major urinary proteins (MUPs), even when all else was held equal. An earlier study by ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2011 - 5:19pm

Vegetables And Salmonella- Washing Is Not Enough, Says Study

successfully evade all the defense mechanisms of plants so cleaning the surfaces of raw fruits and vegetables, ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2008 - 10:53am

Young People Don't Sleep Enough While Older People Need Less And Less- Study

Along with all the other changes that come with age, healthy older people also lose some capacity ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2008 - 1:23pm

Meet Clostridium Difficile, The Next MRSA Superbug You Need To Worry About

Dr. Ed Corboy had no idea what was afflicting his 80-year-old mother, Joan Corboy. All he knew for ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2008 - 8:55pm

Regressive Autistic Spectrum Disorder- When The Terrible Twos Become A Lot More

We all know how infants can act up during their terrible twos, but when these behaviors are ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2008 - 3:11pm

Resistant Staph Bacteria Has Met Its Match: Blue Light

There was a time when penicillin was the cure-all antibiotic, capable of quelling almost any one-celled ...

Article - Erin Richards - Jan 30 2009 - 6:56pm

Size Matters For Plants Too

Show Me The Science Day 3 Reproduction involves some tricky trade-offs for all species, and anyone ...

Article - Michael White - Jan 30 2009 - 1:21am

Gene Regulatory Circuit Discovered For First Tooth, Say Researchers

A common gene regulatory circuit controls the development of all dentitions, from the first teeth ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2009 - 1:03pm