Tag: biology
Lab–grown embryos and human–monkey hybrids: Medical marvels or ethical missteps?
Sahotra Sarkar, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New...
January warm spells, March freezes: How plants manage the shift from...
Richard B. Primack, Boston University
Weather patterns across the U.S. have felt like a roller coaster ride for the...
Figs show that nonnative species can invade ecosystems by forming unexpected...
Jared Bernard, University of Hawaii
While surveying the Hawaiian island of Kauai in search of invasive plants in 2017, botanist Kelsey Brock spotted something unusal:...
Virgin births from parthenogenesis: How females from some species can reproduce...
Mercedes Burns, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
An Asian water dragon hatched from an egg at the Smithsonian National Zoo, and her keepers were shocked....
Museum specimens could help fight the next pandemic – why preserving...
Jocelyn P. Colella, University of Kansas and Bryan McLean, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Imagine yourself as the first naturalist to stand in a...
Bitter battles between stinkbugs and carnivorous mice could hold clues for...
Lauren Koenig, Michigan State University
It’s hard to appreciate the value of pain when we feel it, but most living things would not survive without...
AI makes huge progress predicting how proteins fold – one of...
Marc Zimmer, Connecticut College
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A “deep learning” software program from Google-owned lab DeepMind showed great progress in solving one of biology’s greatest challenges –...
Buildings grown by bacteria — new research is finding ways to...
Wil Srubar, University of Colorado Boulder
Buildings are not unlike a human body. They have bones and skin; they breathe. Electrified, they consume energy, regulate...
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Can you be Christian and support the death penalty?
Mathew Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross
Pope Francis has declared the death penalty “inadmissible.” This means that the death penalty should not be used...
