Life Sciences

Evolutionary Tree Of Life For Flowering Plants

university’s Florida Museum of Natural History. “To think that the burst that gave rise to almost all of these ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2007 - 11:00am

Bats: Fossils Show Flying Came Before Echolocation

different from all other bats---the hind legs are longer and the forearm shorter---and more similar to those ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2008 - 5:44pm

GLUT2 Gene Linked To Sugary Food Consumption

3-day food record two weeks later to ensure that the effect was reproducible. All participants were ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2008 - 1:38am

Gecko Genome Size And Cell Size

all raised in the lab or obtained from pet shops and not taken from different wild populations (i.e., ...

Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Jul 5 2008 - 1:48pm

Social Diversity Improves Cooperation And Group Fitness

additional mechanism to explain an otherwise puzzling human (and some other primate’s) trait. Not all news is ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Aug 13 2008 - 12:36am

Cellular 'Trash' May Be Awesome Pirate Loot To Researchers

while generating a rich data set for analysis. "We tried to find all of the microRNA-target RNA ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2008 - 4:24pm

Genetic Fingerprinting Enhanced- DNA May Even Tell Your Surname

child would have one man’s surname but another man’s Y chromosome type. Given all this, we really didn’t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2008 - 7:30pm

Pellionisz Google Tech presentation

managed to convince anyone of his view that all non-coding DNA is functional is another issue, however. ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Nov 7 2008 - 12:08pm

Finding A New Gene Behind Language Disorders

are likely to have regulatory problems with all of the many genes FOXP2 controls, so you're ...

Article - Michael White - Dec 2 2008 - 12:55pm

Dances With Penguins

can fly.  Third, they all have feathers.  All the scientific evidence means that the simplest ...

Article - Justin Gerke - Dec 12 2008 - 12:06pm