This Week: Holy horseradish! Ancient roots of pain
In the News: Drug Safety: Did FDA Bungle Again?
It’s gibberish to us, but what does the Human Genome Project mean for biology?
Diamonds, mating and chocolate: three necessities of Valentine’s Day.
Mechanisms of evolution uncovered with stickleback fish research.
Single gene determines number of queens in fire ant nest.
Evolution is going on all around us. Evolution and everyday life.
Natural love: Hermaphroditic snails dart each other during sex. Just before mating, hydraulic pressure builds around the dart. When the second animal touches the darter’s genitals, it shoots.
Amorphophallus titanum, the corpse flower, astounds thousands as it blooms. Even the flies agree: It STINKS! But what good is a foul-scented wonder?
New report says we don’t get genes directly from bacteria.
Are the Galapagos islands the birthplace of evolution theory and evolution science? What did Darwin learn there, and how are they being preserved nowadays?
Genetically male fish in the Columbia River look and act like females.