The quick and easy answer to why people are religious is that God – in whichever form you believe he/she/they take(s) – is real and people believe because they communicate with it and perceive evidence of its involvement ...
Social Sciences
Dec 18, 2018
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Zoologist Sarah Otto, with the University of British Columbia, has published a report in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B regarding human influence on evolution over the past century. She notes that the number ...
Forty million miles of major roads crisscross the Earth's continents—enough to circle the planet 1,600 times. For humans, these thoroughfares are a boon, enabling them to move with ease from place to place. But for migrating ...
Ecology
Mar 26, 2018
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Tyson Foods Inc. has invested in a food-tech startup that's developing methods to produce meat directly from animal cells.
Business
Jan 29, 2018
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The stars have fascinated humankind throughout history, and we have developed ever more sophisticated means of interpreting them and using their positions to guide us (at least in a navigational, rather than an astrological ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2018
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Researchers have developed a new method for reading the history and "family trees" of cells. Called MEMOIR, or Memory by Engineered Mutagenesis with Optical In situ Readout, the technique can record the life history of animal ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 21, 2016
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(Phys.org) —One of the first studies conducted on young reptiles reared without contact with their siblings is challenging the assumption that only mammals and birds are shaped by social interactions.
Plants & Animals
Jan 22, 2014
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Conflicting interests within a group can lead to better collective decisions – if you're a social animal such as a meerkat – according to new research by a team of biologists and political scientists from the Max Planck ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 6, 2013
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Hox genes are the master regulators of embryonic development for all animals, including humans, flies and worms. They decide what body parts go where. Not surprisingly, if something goes wrong with these genes, the results ...
Biotechnology
Sep 13, 2013
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University of Adelaide research has produced a potential new antibiotic which could help in the battle against bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
Biochemistry
Jul 3, 2013
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