Keeping Pace with Humans: Urban Evolution
A select few species evolve fast enough to keep pace with and survive human impacts.
A select few species evolve fast enough to keep pace with and survive human impacts.
Scientists are testing a variety of brain imaging techniques on unconscious patients in hopes of learning more about their diagnosis. The technologies are helping researchers make more accurate predictions about who is likely to regain consciousness.
The seven to ten million people suffering from Parkinson’s can attest that the diagnosis is a harrowing one, foreshadowing an ever-changing cocktail of drugs, symptoms, and side effects for life. But, a new drug may have changed that- for rats at least.
The prospect of casting a fishing line and snagging a shark might sound exciting to some young anglers, but for the sharks, getting accidentally caught could be a death sentence.
In the shaggy coat of a sloth lives a vast fungal community, churning out bioactive compounds that could one day serve as the basis for new drugs.
Boston-based researchers think they have hit upon a major development in stem cell studies, one which could benefit a large populations of patients suffering from inflammatory diseases.
There is nothing more majestic than an eagle soaring through the sky, but the rise of renewable energy—especially wind energy—is encroaching on their airspace with deadly consequences.
University of Missouri researchers identify the first step towards driving modern agriculture’s dependence on chemical fertilizers back to biological, benign ways to fertilize the soil.
Phytoplankton: foundation of the ocean’s food web…and possibly of life’s origins?