Life Sciences

Empathy Is Impetus For Sharing In All Primates, Says Study

Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have shown capuchin monkeys, just like humans, find giving to be a satisfying experience. This finding comes on the coattails of a recent imaging study in humans that documented ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2008 - 4:31pm

Carbon Nanotubes? Spiderman? It's All Gecko To Me

A Gecko's ability to climb sheer walls has long caught the attention of scientists and they've been trying for years to duplicate this strange talent. Major universities such as UC Santa Barbara, Georgia Institute of Technology and the University ...

Article - Ashley Cox - Oct 15 2008 - 2:22am

Gray's Paradox Resolved- Dolphins Can Swim That Fast After All And Here's Why

You've heard it before.   According to the laws of physics, bees can't fly.   Yet fly they do.   And British zoologist Sir James Gray noticed something strange about dolphins in 1936.  He had observed the sea mammals swimming at a swift rate of m ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2008 - 1:49pm

All about eye evolution

The most recent issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now available free online. This is a special issue devoted to the evolution of eyes. You may recognize some of the names in the table of contents, as several of these authors are also bloggers. ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Jan 31 2009 - 7:55pm

Human Sex Roles? Male Promiscuity Debunked (And Women Aren't All That Picky Either)

A new study challenges long-standing expectations that men are promiscuous and women tend to be more particular when it comes to choosing a mate. The research in Trends in Ecology and Evolution suggests that human mating strategies are not likely to confor ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2009 - 2:01pm

All Aboard! CendR Cargo Carrying Peptide Delivers Drugs

UC Santa Barbara scientists have revealed what they call a potential new drug delivery system- a biological mechanism for delivery of nanoparticles into tissue. They developed a peptide, a small piece of protein that can carry "cargo" for deliver ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2009 - 11:51am

Programmed Cell Death- In Plants, Animals And Humans, One Thing We All Have In Common

Parts of our genetic programs that determine programmed cell death in plants and animals are actually evolutionarily related and function in a similar way, according to an article in Nature Cell Biology. Research has previously believed that animals and pl ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2009 - 10:11am

Getting All A's But Flunking Life- IQ Scores Climb As Creativity Sinks

Almost 30 years ago philosopher James Flynn discovered that IQ scores were increasing in every industrialized country around the globe. But before we pat ourselves on back, Bronson and Merryman warn us that we may be in the midst of a Creativity Crisis. Al ...

Article - Drs. Fernette and... - Jul 30 2010 - 10:10am

Early Musical Training Benefits The Brain All Life Long

Older adults who took music lessons as children but hadn't actively played an instrument in decades have faster brain responses to sounds than those who never played an instrument, according to a study appearing in the Journal of Neuroscience.  As pe ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2013 - 6:14pm

Male Infertility: It's All About The Package

3 million men across America experience infertility. Today, researchers described a key event during sperm development that is essential for male fertility- a protein controls DNA packaging to protect a man's genetic information.  ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2014 - 8:59am