Killing humans. By analyzing rocks. [Brake that rock!]
University of California, Berkeley neuroscientists have tracked the progress of a thought through the brain, showing clearly how the prefrontal …
Category Archives: Biology
Butterflies. Before we had flowers…
Visiting a colleague in Germany in 2012, Boston College Research Professor Paul K. Strother was examining soil samples for pollen, …
True frogs… Ageing… False theories…
New research shows, in contrast to expectations, ‘the rapid global range expansion of true frogs was not associated with increased …
X, Y, Male, Female…
In most mammals, us included, biological sex is determined by a lottery between two letters: X and Y, the sex …
Abre los ojos: Right-handed. Left-handed. It matters not… [Asymmetry is just a phenomenon]
Other people are right-handed and other people are left-handed. “Handed-ness” or left-right asymmetry is prevalent throughout the animal kingdom, including …