Life Sciences

Magnets, Migration And Fish

the 1,000+ fish would all have swam in the same direction. Instead there was just a tendency. Fish ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2014 - 3:07pm

How Did Vertebrates Evolve A Face?

more primitive and some more advanced, the authors were able to map out all the main steps of the ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2014 - 5:44pm

Fruit-Eaters Score Higher On Spatial Memory Tests

half were empty. After the lemur learned which boxes contained food and which didn't, all eight ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2014 - 10:19am

Bacteria Go With The Flow- To Stick Around

technology — which is only about 15 years old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2014 - 11:06am

Dedicated Neuro-Highway: Human Brains Hard-Wired To Link What We See With What We Do

experiments. In all experiments, participants used robotic arms to control cursors on two-dimensional displays, ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2014 - 10:38am

Elf1 Cell Line May Help Embryonic Stem Cell Research

the earliest stages of embryonic development and so retain the ability to differentiate in all the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2014 - 7:22pm

Sea Turtle And Marine Mammal By-Catch: Unintended Consequence Of Global Fisheries

all of this information into a single comprehensive map and dataset. "It highlights the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2014 - 10:35am

Forgetful? It Might Be Your Genes, Not Senility

taking a saliva sample and examining it using methods from molecular biology. All humans carry the DRD2 ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2014 - 11:34am

Antibiotics A Potential Mechanism For Autoimmunity

autoimmunity. But because gentamicin is usually used to treat infections, "all of the right conditions are ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 3:30am

Fences: Former Conservation Must-Have Now Implicated In Ecological Meltdown

the world, fencing is part of the culture of wildlife conservation – it's assumed that all ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 4:24pm