Life Sciences

For People With Schizophrenia, Working Memory Hinders Learning

individually, even as they all interact in the brain to make learning happen. "More broadly it brings ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2014 - 8:31am

Weekend Science: Coffee Drinker? Maybe You Hit The Genetic Powerball

are all miserable" Coffee makes us say 'yes' Coffee Improves Race Relations: Coffee: ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 11 2014 - 10:30am

What The Evolution Of Violins And Plants Have In Common

design by human relatedness. As with all scientific papers, Chitwood's article was rigorously ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2014 - 5:30pm

Zapping The Brain With Tiny Magnetic Pulses Improves Memory

to the same networks. All people were also required to take a memory test both preceding the TMS ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 9 2014 - 10:30am

‘Inner GPS’ Of Bird Brains May Be Better Than That Of Humans

for host nests. In related species that do not search for host nests at all, such as the bay-winged ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 13 2014 - 9:48am

Antibiotic Resistance At The Ribosome Level

Multiresistant bacterial pathogens that are insensitive to virtually all available antibiotics are one of the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2014 - 9:36am

Designer Viruses Could Be The New Antibiotics

identified all the pieces and showed how exactly bacteria transcribe viral DNA into a short RNA – usually the ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 14 2014 - 10:01am

Lemurs Like To Make An Informative Visit To The Bathroom

common are latrines that are located in the core of their territory. All members of the family visit the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2014 - 11:43am

Autocatalytic Network: A Step Closer To Creating Artificial Living Systems

This autocatalytic set quickly evolved into a state where strings of all lengths existed in equal ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2014 - 12:30pm

Biological Clock: Graveyard Shift Workers Might Want To Skip High-Iron Foods

up in the morning and sleep when it's dark. Ideally all the body's clocks would work on ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2014 - 5:00pm