I really had my eyes opened a couple of years ago, when I happened to be in Tuba City, Arizona on Columbus Day. Tuba City is a very small town on the western portion of the Navajo Nation, and close to the Hopi reservation too. The native kids presumably had the day off of school, [...]
Scientists have found a key protein that’s been missing from their understanding of how plants tell time.
The discovery came from studies of the tiny mustard plant (Arabidopsis genus), which is often used as a laboratory model. Researchers have long known about a protein that senses fading light and kicks in in the evening (called TOC1), [...]
I’m definitely not breaking news here — ol’ Santino has been making the rounds in the past couple of days. But he deserves his fame. He’s revealed a way of thinking that’s never been so definitively attributed to non-human animals.
Santino, a chimp, lives at Sweden’s Furuvik Zoo. Back in 1997, zoo keepers noticed odd piles of [...]
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS? Seriously, this is one of the coolest studies I’ve read all week, and not just because it documents biology at temperatures as low as 4 degrees C (39 degrees F) at the bottom of Lake Huron.
This is a study that says some forms of life will still thrive after [...]
Carbs may have paved the way for humans to evolve two million years ago, which means low-carb diets could actually be — well, primal.
Anne Stone, an anthropologist at Arizona State University in Phoenix, has been exploring the genetic underpinnings of the human shift to a starchy diet, which may have been a pivotal factor in [...]
