Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSBrowse News Stories
11 to 20 of 4,724 stories
view headlines only
-
Evolution on the Inside Track: How Viruses in Gut Bacteria Change Over Time
July 26, 2013 — The digestive tract is home to a vast colony of bacteria, as well as the myriad viruses that prey upon them. Because the bacteria species vary from person to person, so does this viral population, ... > full story -
A New Coral Reef Species from the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia
July 26, 2013 — A new shallow water coral species, Echinophyllia tarae sp. n., is described from the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia. Scleractinia, also called stony corals, are exclusively marine animals; they ... > full story -
Fossil Shows Fish Had Sucker on Its Back
July 26, 2013 — A 30-million year-old fossil has revealed how remoras -- also called sharksuckers -- evolved the sucker that enables them to stick to other fishes and 'hitch a ... > full story -
Molecular Monkey Arranges X-Chromosome Activation
July 26, 2013 — X chromosomes are very special genetic material. They differ in number between men and women. To achieve equality between sexes, one out of two X chromosomes in women is silenced. In flies, the ... > full story -
Captured: Mysterious Oyster Killers
July 25, 2013 — Researchers have apprehended tiny, elusive parasites that have plagued oysters from British Columbia to ... > full story -
Scientists Get Dirty at the Robson Glacier
July 24, 2013 — New research presents some of the first data documenting microbial community diversity, biomass and function along a 100-year-old soil chronosequence in a Canadian glacier retreat ... > full story -
Pressurized Virus Blasts Its Infectious DNA Into Human Cells
July 24, 2013 — The virus that causes those painful lip blisters known as cold sores has an internal pressure eight times higher than a car tire, and uses it to literally blast its infectious DNA into human cells, ... > full story -
Male Guppies Ensure Successful Mating With Genital Claws
July 24, 2013 — Some males will go to great lengths to pursue a female and take extreme measures to hold on once they find one that interests them, even if that affection is unrequited. New research from ... > full story -
An Evolutionary Compromise for Long Tooth Preservation
July 24, 2013 — Researchers have conducted stress analyses on gorilla teeth of differing wear stages. Their findings show that different features of the occlusal surface antagonize tensile stresses in the tooth to ... > full story -
Evolution Picks Up Hitchhikers: Pervasive Genetic Hitchhiking and Clonal Interference in Evolving Yeast Populations
July 22, 2013 — In a twist on "survival of the fittest," researchers have discovered that evolution is driven not by a single beneficial mutation but rather by a group of mutations, including ones called "genetic ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 140,690
more 
