News articles tagged with 'biologist'
Death anxiety prompts people to believe in intelligent design, reject evolution
— 31 Mar 2011 15:21 | HealthResearchers at the University of British Columbia and Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.) have found that people's death anxiety can influence them to support theories of intelligent…
Think globally, but act locally when studying plants, animals, global warming
— 21 Mar 2011 16:27 | EnvironmentGlobal warming is clearly affecting plants and animals, but we should not try to tease apart the specific contribution of greenhouse gas driven climate change to extinctions or declines…
Berkeley Lab scientists take a look at systems biology and cellular networking
— 18 Mar 2011 15:04 | BiologySystems biology is a holistic approach to the study of how a living organism emerges from the interactions of the individual elements that make up its constituent cells. Embracing a…
First census finds surprisingly few white sharks off California
— 9 Mar 2011 18:35 | BiologyIn the first census of its kind, research led by UC Davis and Stanford University found that there are far fewer white sharks off central California than biologists had thought…
DNA better than eyes when counting endangered species
— 8 Mar 2011 14:47 | BiologyUsing genetic methods to count endangered eagles, a group of scientists showed that traditional counting methods can lead to significantly incorrect totals that they believe could adversely…
Earth's sixth mass extinction: Is it almost here?
— 4 Mar 2011 15:06 | EnvironmentWith the steep decline in populations of many animal species, scientists have warned that Earth is on the brink of a mass extinction like those that have occurred just five times during…
Compound useful for studying birth defects may also have anti-tumour properties
— 1 Mar 2011 18:39 | HealthIn an interesting bit of scientific serendipity, researchers at North Carolina State University have found that a chemical compound useful for studying the origins of intestinal birth…
New scholarly paper reveals 100 new species of lichenised fungi
— 15 Feb 2011 16:27 | BiologyIn an unprecedented coming-out party, 100 newly discovered species are revealed to the world in a single scholarly paper coordinated by Field Museum scientists…
Mini or massive? For turtles and tortoises, it all depends on where you live
— 2 Feb 2011 16:13 | BiologyBiologists from the UCLA Division of Life Sciences have reported the first quantitative evidence for an evolutionary link between habitat and body size in turtles and tortoises…
The cryptic African wolf: Canis aureus lupaster is not a golden jackal
— 27 Jan 2011 19:11 | BiologyNew molecular evidence reveals a new species of grey wolf living in Africa. Formerly confused with golden jackals, and thought to be an Egyptian subspecies of jackal, the new African…