Life Sciences

Rock Eating Bacteria Bring New Questions About The Evolution Of Life On Earth

the research with geochemists Katrina Edwards and Wolfgang Bach while all three were in Woods Hole. ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2008 - 12:10am

Brain Scans, Numerical Modeling And Getting Computers To Read Your Mind

all sorts of new possibilities for looking into the fine structure of how patterns of brain activity ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2008 - 11:07pm

Different Wavelengths Of Light Affect Circadian Rhythm

at the eye was the same in all three conditions, when the two colors of light were combined in the ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2008 - 10:54am

Photosynthesizing Tree Leaves Control Their Own Temperature

temperature and relative humidity of past climates. The assumption in all of these studies was that tree leaf ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2008 - 1:23pm

How Self-Incompatibility In Plants Maintains Genetic Diversity

stigma. For all plants, the pollen of other species is undesirable, as it will result in aborted zygotes ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2008 - 9:30am

Old World, New World Large-Brained Simians Rose Independently From Common Smaller-Brained Ancestors

characteristics of all primates," he says. "The relatively small brain of Chilecebus contrasts with that ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2008 - 11:39am

Midshipman Fish Apparently Has A Sexy Voice

College of Medicine, and Robert Baker of New York University Medical Center. "Fish have all the same ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2008 - 6:29pm

Human Cytomegalovirus- A Viral Cloaking Device

receptor. All its efforts have made UL18 virtually undetectable. "It's a good example of a viral ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2008 - 10:13am

Defining DNA Differences Tackles Typhoid Fever

Typhi is found only in humans and the genomes of all isolates are superficially extremely similar, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2008 - 5:30pm

Anthrasimias Gujaratensis: Tiny 55 Million Year-Old Teeth Show Early Primates Weighed Just 3 Ounces

case a few teeth is all we have." Their PNAS report described two upper molars and one lower ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2008 - 5:05pm