Variations in the genetic code of life 01 May 2006 ONE of the unifying features of life on Earth is that cells almost always use the same genetic language to...
PHILADELPHIA - Michael Schiavo, appearing with Julia Duane Quinlan at a bioethics symposium, said Sunday that outsiders from protesters to politicians should...
THE THIRD CULTURE WHO'S AFRAID OF THE THIRD CULTURE? by Gloria Origgi THE REALITY CLUB Daniel C. Dennett, George Johnson, Freeman Dyson, Richard Dawkins, Marc...
Recent disclosures of fraudulent or flawed studies in medical and scientific journals have again called into question the merits of their peer-review system. ...
"A meta-analysis of 22 trials finds that treating attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with stimulant drugs like Ritalin is associated with growth...
"A new study shows that cells from people over the age of 80 tend to have specific problems with the nucleus that young children's cells do not. The elderly...
For all the pork pies and clotted cream the English are reputed to consume, they still face less risk of diabetes and heart disease than their US counterparts,...
"Yet another reason to admire the author of 'The Origin of Species.'" http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/012/157vbnww.asp...
New radiocarbon evidence supports the contention that the Late Bronze Age in the Aegean began at least a century before the date previously assumed by many...
In a discovery that evokes the science fiction of Jurassic Park, a North Carolina paleontologist has found soft tissue in a 68-million-year-old T. rex bone ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/05/education/05testers.html Sz-Shyan Wu is not a Cuban baseball star or a dissident musician. But in urging the United States...
The Pirahã people have no history, no descriptive words and no subordinate clauses. That makes their language one of the strangest in the world -- and also...
At first glance, the "sexy son hypothesis" makes perfect sense. According to this pillar of evolutionary biology, a female who chooses a high-quality male will...
Democracy may be spreading, but is the world more stable? In the second-annual Failed States Index, Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace track the countries...