Topic: Biology
Scientists on Wednesday said they had solved a puzzle over why some wild chilli plants yield red-hot fruit but others have fruit which is mild.The answer lies in exposure to water, they reported in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society ...
Evan Wolfson, the president of the Freedom to Marry Coalition, has married his longtime boyfriend, Cheng He, in New YorkEvan Wolfson, the president of the Freedom to Marry Coalition, has married his longtime boyfriend, Cheng He, in New York, one of six ...
(Reuters) - The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, was awarded on Monday to Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann jointly "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and the other half to Ralph Steinman "for his discovery of the ...
Scientists on Sunday said they had gained insights into a remarkable bacterium that lives without oxygen and transforms ammonium, the ingredient of urine, into hydrazine, a rocket fuel.So-called anammox -- for anaerobic ammonium oxidation -- germs caused a sensation when they were ...
Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.The exploit is published on Sunday in the ...
A rattling good laugh with friends will help you deal with pain thanks to opiate-like chemicals that flood the brain, according to a British study released on Wednesday.Researchers carried out lab experiments in which volunteers watched either comedy clips from "Mr Bean" ...
It is the kind of question that keeps biologists up at night: from an evolutionary standpoint, is the innermost digit of a bird's three-pronged wing more like a thumb or an index finger? A study published online Sunday by Nature says it's ...
MTV's 'The Real World: San Diego' includes bisexual housemate Frank Sweeney and lesbian Samantha 'Sam' McGinnMTV's upcoming The Real World: San Diego includes bisexual housemate Frank Sweeney and lesbian Samantha “Sam” McGinn. On the twenty-sixth season of the reality show, producers return ...
In a laboratory in the center of Manhattan scientists continue to struggle to put names to the remains of victims from the September 11, 2001 attacks, some 40 percent of which are still unidentified."It's not a legal obligation because everybody has a ...
A new species of eel found in the gloom of an undersea cave is a "living fossil" astonishingly similar to the first eels that swam some 200 million years ago, biologists reported on Wednesday.The strange find was made last year in a ...
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