Of highs and lows

A recent study confirms correlation between an enzyme and alcohol sensitivity in mice

The wing thing

Guess what is similar to the dull wings of a fruitfly and the colourful ones of a butterfly

Science goes for a six

The US state f Kansas decides to remove the theory of evolution from school currilum

The nepotism chemical

Calcium equity within cells

How calcium ions are distributed equitably inside a human cell

Cellular compass

Researchers try to find out how cells seek direction

The mystery about gaps

Birds stammer, too

Cooperation

How bacteria acquires the genes to cause cholera

Jumbo went fishing!

Elephants used to be aquatic mammals

Sensitive ones

Perfect ten

Marine census

Global effort to map microbes gets underway

Panel urges teachers, parents to get their facts straight on evolution

Marine potpourri

There will be more plastic than fishes in oceans by 2050

Instrument meant to survey plankton population accidentally records amount of plastics in the oceans

Immortality is mathematically impossible, new research finds

A mathematical equation has proven that controlling one of the two major changes in a cell—decay or cancerous growth—enhances the …

Overwhelmingly WEIRD!

The edifice of Western science is built on generalisation, where homogeneity has replaced diversity

Away from the rat race

Villagers and rural communities, warts and all, can still be places where you can regain your lost spirituality and your moral equilibrium if you …

The secret sex life of the sea urchin

With the unravelling of how fertilisation occurs in sea urchins, scientists may now better understand the reproduction process in higher mammals, …

Penguins gauge sea resources for scientists

Scientists are relying on the emperor penguins to find out the state of sea resources in the inhospitable Antarctic region.

What shaped human intelligence?

Scientists are trying to uncover the adaptive pressures that transformed primates into intelligent humans

Brain-teasers

Recent studies not only reveal that functions of the human brain are highly localised but also that the brain responds to different stimuli in a …

A taste of nerves

By studying a gene causing a taste anomaly in fruit flies, researchers are trying to interpret the working patterns of the human brain

Beyond beginning

A recent finding boosts Darwin's wisdom about the origin of species and questions what is known as 'biology's Big Bang'