Vampire Squid And The Evolution Of Cephalopod Sex

Vampire Squid And The Evolution Of Cephalopod Sex

Everyone loves vampire squid, right? Their monstrous name belies their gentle nature as graceful underwater flyers who eat poop. Still, I was surprised--and delighted!--when a new study about the sex…
How FOXO1 Protein Slows Diabetic Wound Healing

How FOXO1 Protein Slows Diabetic Wound Healing

A protein that normally fosters tissue repair instead acts to inhibit healing when sugar levels are high, according to a new study, and that role reversal helps explain why wounds heal slowly in…
Detecting Earthquakes On Venus Using Sound

Detecting Earthquakes On Venus Using Sound

Detecting an earthquake on Venus is no trivial task. For one thing, it is not a surface like we think of surface. It is under crushing pressure and the temperate is almost 900 degrees. Ordinary…
Diabetes Drug Metformin Linked To Intersex Fish

Diabetes Drug Metformin Linked To Intersex Fish

Metformin, a medication commonly taken for Type II diabetes, is being found in freshwater systems worldwide, and a new study says that it causes physical changes in male fish exposed to doses similar…
How Accurate Is US Patient Outcome Health Data?

How Accurate Is US Patient Outcome Health Data?

A new study concludes that most U.S. clinical registries that collect data on patient outcomes are substandard and lack critical features necessary to render the information they collect useful. A…
Homophobia And Starfish

Homophobia And Starfish

Recently on Real Clear Science, Ross Pomeroy published an article Why Nothing Can Be Truly ‘Unnatural’, in which he denounces attempts to oppose homosexuality on scientific grounds.  However,…