Evolving, The Moral Molecule, Aping Mankind, and Experiment Eleven
Evolving, The Moral Molecule, Aping Mankind, and Experiment Eleven
The discovery of the 2.5-million-year-old Taung Child skull marked a turning point in the study of human brain evolution.
The settings of programmable shunt devices used to treat brain swelling in children can be altered by magnetic fields, such as those given off by the Apple iPad 2.
Medical devices coated with selenium nanoparticles reduce the growth of a deadly hospital-borne infection.
The second of the two controversial bird flu papers is published in Science, revealing that just five mutations can render the virus transmissible between ferrets.
Researchers rediscover a giant insect, thought to have gone extinct a century ago, and plan to reintroduce it to its native island off the coast of Australia.
In pondering genome structure and function, evolutionary geneticist Laurence Hurst has arrived at some unanticipated conclusions about how natural selection has molded our DNA.
Plant pests are evolving to outsmart common herbicides, costing farmers crops and money.