Thursday, 9 February, 2012

Do GM crops work as advertised? Do they kill only pest insects? Do they keep their modified genes to themselves? Or are they a hazard to the environment? Read the GM crop 10-year checkup.

Armstrong wins historic 7th Tour de France. How do endurance athletes prepare for Tour de France? Marathon? Ironman?

History shows societies collapse without soil. What can the world cando to keep our dirt clean?

Developmental biology meets dentistry as scientists grow human teeth in test tubes. All the latest on test-tube teeth. Sounds better than the iron teeth that the Romans used…

Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology given to inventors of MRI machine — but were these guys really the inventors? Meet an unprecedented PR campaign to change the Nobel.

Rock climbing may be harming snail populations along the Niagara Escarpment.

Stanford researchers learn that fast-moving elephants are running, not walking.

Many things distinguish human from rodent. Those ever-growing teeth. That habit of digging through foundations. The ability to design web pages or dream up the ridiculous game of golf… If you haven’t looked under the hood lately, these talents come from quintessentially human section of brain, the cerebral cortex. How does the cerebral cortex develop?

Want to watch a pill dissolve? The virtual stomach may be your best bet yet!

Big squid photos seen from deep ocean. Animal is 7 meters long, and lives more than a kilometer below the surface. Wouldn’t you love to see one in person?