Wildlife extinction rates hugely over-reported
Calculating species extinction rates is a tricky business at the best of times, but a new research paper in Nature…
Suicide rate leaps for white, middle-aged women
Teen suicide gets plenty of airtime, but a new American study finds that middle-aged whites, particularly women, are an emerging…
Lizards Pushed Into Evolutionary Fast Lane
Evolutionary change is generally considered to be a pedestrian affair, with changes occurring over millennia. But evolutionary biologists from Harvard…