Life Sciences

Girl Power In The Animal Kingdom: Females Can 'Choose' The Sex Of Offspring

misleading among animals in captivity, he said. "You would think that all of these conditions would hide ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2013 - 8:30pm

Smell And Eye Tests Might Detect Alzheimer's Early

fluorescent signature. Brain amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scanning was performed on all ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2014 - 9:35pm

Wurst Keeps You Breathing

a decisive role in breathing – possibly in all animals, from flies to human beings. This insight is reported ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2007 - 11:34pm

It Was An Anomalocaris-Eat-Trilobite World, But Still A Lot Like Today

Why? Because analyses of Chengjiang and Burgess Shale food-web data suggest that most, but not all ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2008 - 11:53pm

Vibrio Fischeri- The Gene That Lets Bacteria Jump From Host To Host

All life  depends on peaceful coexistence with a swarm of microbial life inside us that performs ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2009 - 1:03am

Nine New X Chromosome Genes Associated With Learning Disabilities

almost all X chromosome genes in 208 families with learning disabilities- the largest screen of this type ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2015 - 11:03am

ET: Anybody Home?

suggest that with the billions of worlds available, that life is all but inevitable 1. Equally there is ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Feb 9 2010 - 4:40pm

Why A Skull May Not Tell Us If An Ancient Human Walked Upright

Inside Science-- How can you tell how a creature walked when all that you have is the head? For ...

Article - Inside Science - Apr 20 2016 - 9:28am

Vaccination Opponents Drive An Epidemic Of COVID-19 Misinformation

There is a saying that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So, it should ...

Article - W. Glen Pyle - Nov 23 2020 - 1:03pm

Thanksgiving Dinner Means A Bacterial War For Your Teeth

On Thanksgiving Day, it will be all hugs and football for many people, but inside their mouths one ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2020 - 2:31pm