Exposing the Student Body: Stanford Joins U.C. Berkeley in Controversial Genetic Testing of Students
Heated debate surrounds the ethics of the universities' decisions to analyze student DNA
Heated debate surrounds the ethics of the universities' decisions to analyze student DNA
Paleontologists discover evidence that Mesozoic mammals turned to dinosaur bones as dietary supplements.
Here's a little experiment. You know "Greensleeves"—the famous English folk song? Go ahead and hum it to yourself. Now choose the emotion you think the song best conveys: (a) happiness, (b) sadness, (c) anger or (d) fear...
NEW YORK—When it comes to brain power, we humans like to think we're the animal kingdom's undisputed champions. But in the past few decades we've had to make a lot of room on our mantle place for shared trophies...
Our eyes swivel restlessly in their sockets during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, an aptly named period of intense dreaming that makes up 20 to 25 percent of total sleep time.
Charles Darwin is famous for his prolific writing about biology. In addition to publishing his theory of evolution, Darwin wrote books about coral reefs, earthworms and carnivorous plants...
A family of chemicals virtually unknown to the public but important to industry is now under EPA review
A coalition of hunting and fishing groups argue that billions of dollars are needed to prevent "catastrophic" environmental and economic loss due to global warming
It remains unclear how the pesticides from plants known as pyrethroids affect human health
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