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Common Antifungal Drug Decreases Tumor Growth and Shows Promise as Cancer Therapy
August 21, 2012 — An inexpensive antifungal drug, thiabendazole, slows tumor growth and shows promise as a chemotherapy for cancer. Scientists made this discovery by exploiting the evolutionary relatedness of yeast, ... > full story -
Flexible Snake Armor Could Inspire Abrasion-Resistant Materials
August 15, 2012 — Snakes are highly specialized legless animals, which have evolved around 150 million years ago. Although without extremities their body is exposed to constant friction forces. Snake skin could ... > full story -
Mysterious Snake Disease Decoded
August 14, 2012 — A novel virus has been identified as the possible cause of a common but mysterious disease that kills a significant number of pet snakes all over the world, thanks to new ... > full storyMore: -
Florida State Record 87 Eggs in Largest Python from Everglades
August 13, 2012 — Researchers curating a 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python, the largest found in Florida, discovered 87 eggs in the snake, also a state ... > full story -
Friends Help More Promptly, at Least in Monkeys
July 31, 2012 — Behavioral scientists have found out that crested macaques react faster if threatened by predators when a group member they share close social bonds with calls for help. In order to study this ... > full story -
Frog Calls Inspire a New Algorithm for Wireless Networks
July 17, 2012 — Males of the Japanese tree frog have learnt not to use their calls at the same time so that the females can distinguish between them. Scientists in Spain have used this form of calling behavior to ... > full story -
Human Cells, Worms, Frogs and Plants Share Mechanism for Asymmetrical Patterning: Tubulin Proteins
July 16, 2012 — As organisms develop, their internal organs arrange in a consistent asymmetrical pattern -- heart and stomach to the left, liver and appendix to the right. But how does this happen? Biologists have ... > full story -
Giant Fossil Turtle from Colombia Round Like Car Tire
July 11, 2012 — Even the world's largest snake, Titanoboa, could probably not have swallowed this new, very round fossil turtle species from Colombia. Paleontologists have discovered a new species of fossil turtle ... > full story -
Falling Lizards Use Tail for Mid-Air Twist, Inspiring Lizard-Like 'RightingBot'
July 1, 2012 — Lizards, just like cats, have a knack for turning right side up and landing on their feet when they fall. But how do they do it? Unlike cats, which twist and bend their torsos to turn upright, ... > full story -
Rising Heat at the Beach Threatens Largest Sea Turtles, Climate Change Models Show
July 1, 2012 — Climate change could exacerbate existing threats to critically endangered leatherback sea turtles and nearly wipe out the population in the eastern Pacific. Deaths of turtle eggs and hatchlings in ... > full story
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