Unburdened by social engineering, some females prefer males who act like males so growing up with lots of sisters makes a male less sexy - for rats, anyway. A new study published in Psychological…

Unburdened by social engineering, some females prefer males who act like males so growing up with lots of sisters makes a male less sexy - for rats, anyway. A new study published in Psychological…

A new study in rats says growing up with lots of sisters makes a male less sexy to females, because the sex ratio of a male rat's family while young influences his sexual behavior and therefore how…

Lithium-ion batteries are commonly regarded as promising for the cars of the future (at least until hydrogen fuel cells are ready for prime time) but environmentalists interested in electric or…

Jessica Hilo writes in Miller-McCune, during an extensive analogy between bacteria and Mafia: Off land, the Vibrio family is a spritely bunch. They are one of few bacteria that can communicate…

I get quite a lot of press releases, as you can imagine.  Dozens or hundreds depending on the day.  Most are relevant, like the embargoed stuff from Cell or Nature (we don't get those from…

The remaining vulture population in the North West Rajasthan range suffers an increased vulnerability due to:•Isolated subpopulations•Very large foraging areas (local and non-local threats)•Very low…

Anthropomorphizing, the process, as Twain might say, of “underestimating the animal by assigning to him human traits,” has had a good year. The reasons range from the continuing dominance of the…

Like 'green' technology?  Currently 97% of the world's 17 rare earths originate from China and they are necessary for catalytic converters that reduce emissions in cars, for computer monitors,…

Like 'green' technology?  Currently 97% of the world's 17 rare earths originate from China and they are necessary for catalytic converters that reduce emissions in cars, for computer monitors,…

Is nothing secret any more?    Not with Google Maps prowling the planet.The top secret location of Batman's Batcave has been revealed and it's not under Wayne Manor - it's at an Air Force…

Is nothing secret any more?    Not with Google Maps prowling the planet.The top secret location of Batman's Batcave has been revealed and it's not under Wayne Manor - it's at an Air Force…

Unlike the American Revolution, the French one turned out to be a bloody mess and led to Napoleon sacking all of Europe.   Because the French hated the British, they then instituted a French…

Unlike the American Revolution, the French one turned out to be a bloody mess and led to Napoleon sacking all of Europe.   Because the French hated the British, they then instituted a French…

Astronomers report they have measured the distance to the most remote galaxy and have found that they are seeing it when the Universe was only about 600 million years old (a redshift of 8.6), making…

A Nuclear Eco-Catastrophe Fans of British apocalypse novels a la Wyndham and John Christopher ought to enjoy Chalres Eric Maine’s The Tide Went Out, another story focused the catastrophic…

One of the most recognized markers of cellular aging is the progressive accumulation of damage in the DNA, a molecule that cannot tolerate the alteration of the genetic information coded…

comScore, Inc. , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of Internet usage in Russia based on August 2010 data from the comScore Media Metrix service and the data revealed…

Benoit Mandelbrot died on 14 October 2010 in a hospice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 85. His name is synonymous with the study of fractals, a term he himself coined in the 1970s.…

Leopards have but tigers have stripes.  Why the difference?   British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, author of "The Jungle Book" and other stories, suggested the difference was because the…