Life Sciences

Face Recognition Ability Likely Determined By Genetics

twins, who share 50% of their genes. All the participants took the Cambridge Face Memory Test, which ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2010 - 5:05pm

Coastal Microbes: The Answer To Plastic Ocean Pollution?

and are the most likely of all organisms to break down toxic chemicals, or even the plastics ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:58pm

Transcription Factor Binding Not So Evolutionarily Conserved

is that although the transcription factors regulate similar target genes in all five species, the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2010 - 10:57am

Virtual Birding from South Texas

opportunities, please let us know so that we may all learn from your experiences. ...

Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Jul 26 2010 - 9:23pm

Nations and Talking habits

don’t grow in population at all. What is the index of civilization and development and growth of an ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 11 2010 - 1:25pm

What is a Gene?

all this in mind, we turn to  a real genetic headscratcher  about recent experiments in which ...

Blog Post - Rafe Furst - Nov 19 2010 - 8:33am

Ammonites, Monterey, And Argentina Again

cross-link to all my fellow cephalobloggers. Loved the novel-writing, but it's good to be back! ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Dec 2 2010 - 9:51am

No chestnuts on an open fire? The plight of the American Chestnut tree

science can make an American chestnut tree that is immune to the fungus but is in all other respects the ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 18 2010 - 10:46am

Adult Kidney Cells Reverted To Precursor Stem Cells

wiped clean. Now that gives us the opportunity to change that kidney precursor into all kidney cell ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2011 - 2:32pm

Searching For Squid In The Sea Soundscape

It is a lovely piece about sperm whales and all the noises they make, but Eric Wagner doesn't ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Dec 21 2011 - 8:19pm