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Biology
Eureka! Science News - Biology & Nature:
When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat, found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands of genes in th (Read More)
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The Guardian:
The first scientific study of British creationist reasoning shows people too confused to be a movementThe admirable Theos project on Darwin concludes with the publication of a study on how British creationists think (pdf). To (Read More)
The Guardian:
It seems geniuses themselves can't pin down this elusive quality and where it comes fromPsychologists still grind away (sometimes at each other) at explaining what genius is, and where it comes from. The effort, now weary and (Read More)
Discover | Environment:
Image: Anurag AgrawalAnne Gaskett, a Cornell University biologist, spends her days crouching quietly next to orchids in Australia. It may seem like an uneventful way to pass the time, but she is actually observing a marvelou (Read More)
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TreeHugger:
Sometimes nature isn't so harsh and here are two stories as example: BBC News reports that two grandmother macaques have been observed nursing and caring for their grandchildren, the first time such caring behavior has been u (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
The Rebel Tours: Cricket's Crisis of Conscience by Peter May, SportsbooksAs England tour South Africa and the build-up to the World Cup begins, it's an instructive and revealing exercise to sit down with a teen and explain th (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Sue Arnold on Stephenie Meyer, Michael Crichton, Michael Morpurgo, Neil Gaiman and othersBreaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer, read by Ilyana Kadushin and Matt Walters (21hrs unabridged, Hachette, £24.99)Having been rudely advis (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Problem of biodiversity loss has been 'eased off centre stage' by focus on climate change, according to Prof Edward Wilson, the ecologist described as 'Darwin's natural heir'The diversity of life on Earth is undergoing an "im (Read More)
Eureka! Science News - Biology & Nature:
A team led by Penn State's Ross Hardison, T. Ming Chu Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has taken a large step toward unraveling how regulatory proteins control the production of gene products during developmen (Read More)
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ScienceDaily: Plants & Animals News:
Biologists and engineers have dramatically improved the speed and accuracy of measuring an enigmatic set of proteins that influences almost every aspect of how cells and tissues function. The new method offers a long-sought t (Read More)
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The Guardian:
Leading environmental scientists and evangelical Christians join forces to lobby senators in support of the climate billThe handful of Senators trying to rustle up support for Obama's energy and climate change legislation in (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Origins of the bonfire; beware the garden rabbit menace; is the human body an efficient machine?Why is it a "bonfire" rather than "fire"?Just as some religious festivals were grafted on to existing calendar events – eg Christ (Read More)
The Guardian:
• The business has debts of $314m with assets of just $70m • Firm's biobank has genetic information on 140,000 IcelandersA pioneering biotechnology company that spearheaded genetic research on common diseases and offered pers (Read More)
The Guardian:
Microscopic worms taken from Bristol rubbish tip for study in space station labBritain's aspirations to become a spacefaring nation inched a little closer tonight as thousands of microscopic worms boarded the Atlantis space s (Read More)
Nov 15, 2009
guardian.co.uk Society:
'Having it all' can still prove messy and tough, but working life is easier for my generation of women than any beforeWhat is it about working motherhood? The subject is like a suppurating sore, a nasty wound that keeps itchi (Read More)
The Guardian:
Surveys show that, around the world, teachers and students are rejecting evolution. The results are likely to be direQuestions abound in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on the second day of a conference on Darwin's legacy. Where (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Katharine Whitehorn on a survey of Britain in the 1950sWhat was it like to live in the 1950s? Until recently the decade was thought of as a bare patch between the battleground of the 40s and the fairground of the 60s, but rec (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Katharine Whitehorn on a survey of Britain in the 1950sWhat was it like to live in the 1950s? Until recently the decade was thought of as a bare patch between the battleground of the 40s and the fairground of the 60s, but rec (Read More)
The Guardian:
A story from the days when bananas were strange to science and almost miraculousI had a cold yesterday, and spent it reading in bed, where I discovered a wonderful story about Carl Linnaeus, one of the founders of modern bio (Read More)
The Guardian:
Immigration means more and more people in the UK do not accept evolution, says former director of education at the Royal Society Michael ReissMass migration has led to a rise in creationist beliefs across Europe, according to (Read More)
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