You're born gay, and that's that according to QMUL's Dr. Rahman

Dr. Qazi Rahman Queen Mary University of London's assistant professor in Cognitive Biology whose research interests include Cognitive Biology and the Psycho-biology of human sexual orientation, claims in Gay by...

From Fitness to Optimality: The Back Swing of Darwinism's Clock

This year is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. Looking back at the developmental history of biological thinking over the 150 years since the publication of The Origin of Species, we noticed that...

Ontario Science Centre Body Worlds Exhibit: Human Forms Dissected

The Body Worlds Exhibition returns 4 years after its first visit to Toronto and will be on exhibit at the Ontario Science Centre (OSC) until February 28, 2010. This second Body Worlds Exhibition features more than...

Challenging Popular Myths About Autism

i could say a lot about the popular myths about autism, but i happily don't need to: someone already wrote an absolutely fantastic article. RACHEL COHEN-ROTTENBERG wrote such an accessible, accurate, direct and personally touching article on the topic, i thought it...

Mass dolphin strandings blamed on military sonar

Mass dolphin strandings in some parts of the world are being blamed on military sonar, as the animals become temporarily deaf for about 40 minutes after sonar has passed through the region. Hearing is important to...

MWV Episode 27 - ASMCUE

The American Society for Microbiology Conference for UndergraduateEducators (ASMCUE) is an interactive four-day conference on scientificupdates and effective teaching strategies. Now in its 16th year,...

Protistia.

Protist are everywhere. They are noticable on the ground, they are in the air on the foods you eat, this is why they are the largest of the  biological kingdoms.Protist come in all shapes and sizes, some can take...

Jane Goodall branches out

" Jane Goodall's research has changed the definition of what it means to be a human. When she went to what is now Tanzania in 1960 to study the chimpanzees of Gombe, humans were thought to be the only animals capable of making and...

HonKong - Synthetic Bio, students program DNA, new computers, synthetic fuel ...

Synthetic Biology: renewable fuel ? The Microprocessor created intelligent, self controlling, so called closed loop machines. the next step happens in Hong Kong China, program the DNA of a bacteriaand look what...

Scholars suggest Human DNA shows signs of being an Invasive Extraterrestrial ...

Many scientists have documented that over 95% of Human DNA does not have a known purpose. This DNA has been colloquially referred to as "Junk DNA". However, other researchers have not been content to simply...

The Biology of Ideology: Voting and Genes

Scientists are looking towards our genes to learn more about which way we vote, or whether or not we even choose to do so."In a wave of new research since the last presidential campaign, political scientists are...

Songbirds Duel and Make-Up With Duets

One new study has discovered that some birds fight with each other by singing - kind of like a West Side Story scenario. They use tweets to defend their relationships and territories against other birds.Another...

Last Woolly Mammoths Originated in North America

Opinion Barry Artiste. Well isn’t that a kick in the pants when it seems at first Mammoths and humans crossed the ice bridge between Siberia and Alaska populating North America with the Wooly Mammoth, then as...

Advances in cooking 200,000 years ago made humans smart, researchers say

Humans' evolution into the smarty pantses of the animal world may have resulted from advances in cooking 200,000 years ago, researchers say, a development that made a whole lot of brain food available to us. The...

MicrobeWorld Video Episode 9 - Save the Oysters (Part 1)

Do you like oysters? Then join MicrobeWorld for a tour of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Horn Point Laboratory just outside of Cambridge, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay. In this video,...
 

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