Have agriculture, technology, diet and lifestyle changes put humans out of touch with the way we evolved? And would we be healthier and happier if we lived, at least to some extent, the way our Paleolithic ancestors did?

Biology - Evolution

Mar 05, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 7

(Phys.org) —Researchers believe that the size of birds' nests created in response to changing weather patterns may be partly to blame for reproductive failures over the last two years.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 15, 2013 4 / 5 (4) 3

Giant goldfish could be threatening the ecology of Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 24, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 1

Lucas Portelli, a doctoral student in the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, wanted to know how electromagnetic fields affect living things.

Physics - General Physics

Mar 18, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 3

Terahertz (THz) radiation, a slice of the electromagnetic spectrum that occupies the middle ground between microwaves and infrared light, is rapidly finding important uses in medical diagnostics, security, ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Mar 14, 2013 4 / 5 (3) 5

French and South African biologists will dive to deep-sea caves in the Indian Ocean next month in a bid to locate the coelacanth, the "living fossil" fish whose history predates the dinosaurs, France's National ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 29, 2013 4.4 / 5 (7) 0

Lars-Otto Reiersen is a marine biologist by training, now working as an environmental scientist in Norway. He has led the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) for over two decades. AMAP advises the governments of ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 03, 2013 not rated yet 0

An American regarded as a father of computer graphics, an Indian literary critic and a Japanese molecular cell biologist have received the Kyoto Prize, Japan's highest private award for global achievement.

Other Sciences - Other

Nov 10, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

The cyanobacterium Synechocystis produces toxins that often lead to its own demise. The biologists Stefan Kopfmann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess from the University of Freiburg have determined the logic governing ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Mar 15, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

It appeared Bono and arachnids didn't mix when his "Spider-Man" musical had a rough Broadway run, but that didn't keep a biologist from naming an actual spider species after the U2 singer.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 19, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 0

What happens in a day at the roller derby? For one thing, scientists have discovered and reported last month in the journal PeerJ, a lot of bacteria get swapped around. ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 01, 2013 not rated yet 0

Thanks to three scientists, including Simon Fraser University's Jeffery Joy, we can now see in OneZoom how a major portion of life originated from one cell and remains interconnected in the Tree of Life. The software has been loade ...

Biology - Other

Apr 01, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 1

Like humans, mice can become infected with Borrelia. However, not all mice that come into contact with these bacteria contract the dreaded Lyme disease: Animals with a particular gene variant are immune to ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 04, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —In the first published results of more than three years of tracking mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains, UC Santa Cruz researchers document how human development affects the predators' ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 18, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—Chilean biologist Virginia Moreno is besotted with frogs. So much so that she is taking on the might of the forestry industry to study one frog in particular – Chile's critically endangered ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 10, 2012 not rated yet 0