Life Sciences

Openness And The Brain's PMTG Are "Affective" And "Cognitive" Components Of Creativity

creativity…cool, eh?). All this personality gobbledygook is usually squished into the shape of the widely-used Big ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Mar 12 2014 - 7:00am

The Importance Of Gene Flow In Plant Evolution- How It Changed Over Time

our wild radish populations—hundreds of meters away? But after excluding all other possibilities, the ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2014 - 9:16am

Why Autism Is More Common In Males? Children With Autism Had Elevated Levels Of Steroids In The Womb

most importantly, that the autism group on average had higher levels of all steroid hormones, compared ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2014 - 10:03am

Natural, Still Science: Killer Fungus Takes Out Poison Ivy

invasive bug that infests and kills hemlock trees. In all of the natural world, only humans are allergic to ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2014 - 8:14am

Oxytocin Does Not Cause Autism

their unaffected siblings and 62 unrelated children without autism. All of the children were between the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2014 - 4:05pm

How We Tricked E. Coli Bacteria Into Making Renewable Propane

a process that considers all steps of the pathway from production to utilisation. All in order to maximise ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 2 2014 - 3:00pm

Herpesvirus, Not Zoos, Implicated In Baby Elephant Deaths

susceptible to severe disease after their primary EEHV1 infections, while most do not. "About 20% of all ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2014 - 8:00am

Overuse Of Antibiotics Tied To Increase In Clostridium Difficile Infection

that all antibiotic use increased in elderly patients. These patients have a higher risk for CDI ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 7 2014 - 11:01am

What Cute Koalas Tell Us About The Origins Of The Human Genome

of retroviral DNA that all humans share. The ERVs that are successfully passed down are protected by ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2014 - 9:01am

The Evolutionary Constraints Of Fish Skulls

The moray eels, one of the largest families of eels, are all biters and have evolved some of the most ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2014 - 10:48am