Can behavior be controlled by genes? The case of honeybee work assignments
ScienceDaily - By Yehuda Ben-Shahar - Apr. 18 (Research) - The pattern of conservation across species suggests that micro-RNAs are important regulators of social behavior not just during the bee's...
View Article'Junk DNA' can sense viral infection: Promising tool in the battle between...
ScienceDaily - By American Friends of Tel Aviv University - Apr. 24 (Research) - ScienceDaily (Apr. 24, 2012) Once considered unimportant "junk DNA," scientists have learned that non-coding RNA (ncRNA)...
View ArticleScientists show how a gene duplication helped our brains become 'human'
ScienceDaily - By The Scripps Research Institute - May. 03 (Research) - ScienceDaily (May 3, 2012) A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has shown that an extra copy of a...
View ArticleScientists tie DNA repair to key cell signaling network
ScienceDaily - By University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston - Jun. 15 (Research) - University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have found a surprising connection between a key...
View ArticleThe more gray matter you have, the more altruistic you are
ScienceDaily - By University of Zurich - Jul. 11 (Research) - ScienceDaily (July 11, 2012) The volume of a small brain region influences one's predisposition for altruistic behavior. Researchers from...
View ArticleMAP: Which States Hunt Wolves?
Mother Jones - By Jaeah Lee, Kiera Butler - Oct. 01 (Special Report) - It's a bad day to be a gray wolf in Wyoming, which today begins its first wolf-hunting season in more than half a century. It's...
View ArticleAlaska trumpeter swans filling historic range
Anchorage Daily News - By Dan Jolin - Oct. 30 (News Report) - Deborah Groves of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says North America's largest waterfowl species continues a comeback from near...
View ArticleResearchers Describe ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Whale Survey Near Point Hope
alaskapublic.org - By Annie Feidt - Nov. 27 (News Report) - “On that one flight we saw fin whales, 24 humpback whales, 5 killer whales and one minke whale. Reporter: So did your jaw kind of drop when...
View ArticleThe Brains of the Animal Kingdom
Wall Street Journal - Mar. 23 (Opinion) - New research shows that we have grossly underestimated both the scope and the scale of animal intelligence. Primatologist Frans de Waal on memory-champ chimps,...
View ArticleThe GMO that Could Have Killed Nearly All Life on Earth
nationofchange.org - Mar. 26 (Special Report) - some scientists a while back,”What if we could bioengineer these things to create alcohol super-efficiently and super strong?” Potentially, they figured,...
View ArticleInside the Fascinating World of Marijuana Research
AlterNet - By Alyson Martin, Nushin Rashidian - Dec. 01 (Special Report) - Cannabinoid science, the study of the active compounds in cannabis, was born in the late 1930s. The plant is thought to...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why You Should Probably Stop Using Antibacterial Soap
Smithsonian Magazine - By Joseph Stromberg - Jan. 03 (News) - A few weeks ago, the FDA announced a bold new position on antibacterial soap: Manufacturers have to show that it's both safe and more...
View ArticleLiving Lightly
defenders.org - By Matthew Hardcastle - Jan. 25 (Special Report) - only trace amounts of oxazepam—a commonly prescribed anti-anxiety medication—made European perch bolder, spending less time under...
View ArticleChina cloning on an industrial scale
BBC News - By David Shukman - Jan. 13 (News Report) - Run by a fast-growing company called BGI, this facility has become the world's largest centre for the cloning of pigs. The technology involved is...
View ArticleMaking viruses in the lab deadlier and more able to spread: an accident...
thebulletin.org - By Malcolm Dando, Tatyana Novossiolova - Aug. 16 (News Analysis) - [Gain-of-function experiments are] a topic that has been in the news recently after researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka of...
View ArticleWorried About Bioterrorism? The myths (and realities) of synthetic bioweapons
thebulletin.org - By Catherine Jefferson, Filippa Lentzos, Claire Marris - Sep. 18 () - Even if the engineering approaches offered by synthetic biology make processes more systematic and more...
View ArticleWhite House Unveils Strategy to Combat Antibiotic Resistance
Scientific American - Sep. 19 (News) - A new science advisory panel assessment sparks executive actions to tamp down the threat of a future without lifesaving drugs -- Read more on...
View ArticleHow to prevent the next Ebola outbreak | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
thebulletin.org - By Laura Kahn - Oct. 05 (Special Report) - Environmental destruction and widespread deforestation seem to constitute a common thread in causing the emergence of many of the deadliest...
View ArticleNews Analysis: The Ebola Conspiracy Theories
New York Times - By By ALAN FEUER - Oct. 21 (News Analysis) - THE spread of Ebola from western Africa to suburban Texas has brought with it another strain of contagion: conspiracy theories. The...
View ArticleThe incapacitating chemical agents loophole | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
thebulletin.org - By Michael Crowley, Malcolm Dando - Oct. 23 (Special Report) - Proponents of ICA weapons have long promoted their development and use in certain law enforcement scenarios—for example,...
View ArticleAnimal Extinctions From Climate Rival End of Dinosaurs
Bloomberg - By Stefan Nicola - Dec. 03 (Special Report) - Animals are dying off in the wild at a pace as great as the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago because of human...
View ArticleOcean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says
New York Times - By Carl Zimmer - Jan. 18 (Special Report) - A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing...
View ArticleThe monarch massacre: Nearly a billion butterflies have vanished
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View ArticleOne in 10 bees crucial to Europe’s ecosystem are threatened with extinction,...
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View ArticleThe next epidemic, brought to you by the US government
thebulletin.org - By Laura Kahn - Jun. 12 (News Analysis) - So it is absolutely mind-boggling that Homeland Security has decided to move the lab, to be known as the National Bio and Agro-Defense...
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