Monkeys Use “Baby Talk” With Infants
Just like human mothers, rhesus monkeys also use special “baby talk” vocalizations to engage and interact with their infants, a…
Dehydrated Females Quench Thirst With Ejaculate
University of Exeter biologists say that some female beetles often mate simply to quench their thirst and overcome dehydration. The…
Shifting Evolution Up A Gear
Research appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that “moving the goalposts” may be one method…
Uncovering Autism’s Disconnects
Scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WF) have discovered that in autistic individuals, connections between brain cells may…
Health Officials Get Wee-lly Smart About Drug Usage
Attendees at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society were told that public health officials intend to get more…
Changing Climate Behind Polar Ice Clouds?
The wispy, luminescent clouds that have been shining against the deep blue of the northern sky may be a symptom…
Horizontal Gene Transfer Vastly Underestimated, Suggests New Study
The movement of genes between unrelated species (horizontal gene transfer, or HGT) may happen much more frequently than previously believed,…
Our Love Affair With Depression
A psychiatrist, writing in the British Medical Journal, has lashed out at what he claims is the medicalization of normal…
“Hot” Comets The Source Of Life?
A new study in the International Journal of Astrobiology contends that it is overwhelmingly likely that life came to Earth…
Physicists Mull Whether Inorganic Dust Formations Could Be Alive
Intriguing new evidence of life-like double-helix structures formed from inorganic substances in space has been reported in the New Journal…
Alpine Butterflies Getting Squeezed Out
The warming climate is expanding forests in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and inexorably isolating groups of alpine butterflies from each…
Study Slams Mainstream Farming Techniques
Long-established plow-based agricultural methods combined with the economic imperative to improve crop yields are rapidly depleting the Earth’s soil supply,…
Bacterial Accumulation Doesn’t Appear To Impact Longevity
Investigating the aging process in flies, researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) have established that while older flies…
Carbon Sink Sunk
Results from a decade-long experiment into how much carbon dioxide (CO2) pine trees can soak up show that the trees…
Global Food Trade A Target For Terrorists, Conference Told
A food industry conference has been told that the global food system is an inviting target for terrorists. “You can’t…
Asian Brown Clouds Accelerating Warming
A new study of pollution-filled “brown clouds” over south Asia has found that they enhance solar heating of the lower…