Researchers stitch two mouse genes together to recreate a gene that existed more than 500 million years ago. http://www.discover.com/web-exclusives/backevol/...
A five-year study of South Carolina pine forests offers proof of the widely practiced but controversial theory that corridors linking nature reserves help...
via Cosh... "Size and number matter when it comes to muscles" The Yomiuri Shimbun Anatomical research has shown that the number, shape and size of muscles that...
Also via Cosh... "Scientists find fish farming own food" The Yomiuri Shimbun A team of researchers at Kyoto University's Graduate School of Human and...
An in-class writing assignment designed to boost students' sense of identity and personal integrity reduced the achievement gap between African-American and...
Strange but true: Women score much lower on math tests if they are first asked unrelated questions about gender issues. The phenomenon is called "stereotype...
A skeleton found on Flores Island in Indonesia has sparked a lively debate between scientists. Has a new human species been discovered -- the so-called...
... Having skimmed the paper it is clear that they claim that there was no reduction in non-minority results. They actually based their results on grade 7 GPAs...
... Having skimmed the paper it is clear that they claim that there was no reduction in non-minority results. They actually based their results on grade 7 GPAs...
... Well, the supporting material contains this interesting Q & A (partial) ... Did the intervention affect African Americans' trend in annual GPA? It did. All...
French police arrested three people after hundreds of protesters including anti-globalisation icon Jose Bove tried to destroy a field of genetically-modified...
An advance in stem cell research that was intended to resolve moral differences over the promising but controversial field has ignited fresh conflict instead. ...
Genes shape our health and appearance more than they shape our personality, suggests a new study of thousands of people in a genetically isolated part of the...
Evolution and the environment, not just gluttony, has led to a global obesity pandemic, with an estimated 1.5 billion people overweight -- more than the number...
Mounting evidence suggests that human beings are hard-wired to appreciate music. What researchers want to know now is why our distant ancestors evolved music...
Across the eastern United States, a gruesome ritual is in full swing. The praying mantis and its relative, the Chinese mantis, are in their courtship season. A...
Volume 4 | Issue 9 | SEPTEMBER 2006 Pier F. Ferrari, Elisabetta Visalberghi, Annika Paukner, Leonardo Fogassi, Angela Ruggiero, Stephen J. Suomi ABSTRACT The...
Males have greater G: sex differences in general mental ability "A study of 100,000 17- to 18-year-olds on the SAT At each and every every level of family...
A SNP implicated in preterm birth among African Americans A functional SNP in the promoter of the SERPINH1 gene increases risk of premature rupture of...