Life Sciences

Britain's Bubonic Plague Of 2000 BC

shot. The individuals identified all lacked the yapC and ymt genes, which are seen in later strains of ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2023 - 1:04pm

Solving The Mystery Of Sleep

changing the synapses, mainly by making them stronger. It is wonderful that you can have all these synaptic ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2007 - 4:49pm

Intelligent Design Advocates Confused By Their Own Arguments

a non-functional system. Thus, without all of the parts there is nothing functional for natural selection to act ...

Article - Michael White - Jan 7 2009 - 11:18am

Memes, Selfish Genes And Darwinian Paranoia

some evolutionary biologists (though by all means not all, yours truly being one of many exceptions) ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jul 26 2009 - 10:01pm

If You're In Naples In April...

cephalopods, among all the invertebrates of the world? Even other molluscs--snails, clams, mussels--are being ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jan 16 2011 - 12:58am

Natural Born Killers Go Extinct

somewhere else busy torturing a gnu. Some argue about biodiversity, but with all those insects supposedly ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 15 2011 - 5:45am

Spanish Male Fish 'Feminized' By Pollution

Chemically, they are very different from each other, but they all have similar effects: due to their ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2014 - 12:08pm

Divergent Evolution Of Skull And Mandible Shape In Feline And Sabertoothed Cats

on their size, and small cats appear all to have rather abbreviated, tall and domed crania, whereas ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2008 - 12:14am

Practical advice about Ants in your House- An Ask BUGMAN Answer!

particular ant, Quadristruma emmae (really, that's its name!), has very little eyes and all sorts of ...

Blog Post - Mark Berman - Mar 7 2010 - 1:17pm

Universal Common Ancestry Passes Quantitative Test

across all three domains of life. The three domains include diverse life forms such as the Eukarya ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2010 - 1:22pm