News articles tagged with 'evolution'
After 25 years, sustainability is a growing science that's here to stay
— 22 Nov 2011 16:44 | EnvironmentSustainability has not only become a science in the past 25 years, but it is one that continues to be fast-growing with widespread international collaboration, broad disciplinary composition…
Did dinosaurs have lice? Researchers say it's possible
— 6 Apr 2011 15:22 | Geology and palaeontologyA new study louses up a popular theory of animal evolution and opens up the possibility that dinosaurs were early - perhaps even the first - animal hosts of lice…
Death anxiety prompts people to believe in intelligent design, reject evolution
— 31 Mar 2011 15:21 | HealthResearchers at the University of British Columbia and Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.) have found that people's death anxiety can influence them to support theories of intelligent…
New plant species gives insights into evolution
— 18 Mar 2011 14:14 | BiologyA new plant species is providing an insight into how evolution works and could help improve crop plants, scientists have revealed…
A new evolutionary history of primates
— 18 Mar 2011 14:09 | BiologyA robust new phylogenetic tree resolves many long-standing issues in primate taxonomy. The genomes of living primates harbour remarkable differences in diversity and provide an intriguing…
With new method, CSHL team is able to infer how tumours evolve and spread
— 13 Mar 2011 19:10 | HealthA new method of analysing cancerous tumours developed by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) suggests that tumours may not evolve gradually, but rather in punctuated…
Missing DNA helps make us human
— 10 Mar 2011 18:49 | BiologyA new study demonstrates that specific traits that distinguish humans from their closest living relatives - chimpanzees, with whom we share 96 percent of our DNA - can be attributed…
Oldest objects in solar system indicate a turbulent beginning
— 4 Mar 2011 15:42 | AstronomyScientists have found that calcium, aluminium-rich inclusions (CAIs), some of the oldest objects in the solar system, formed far away from our sun and then later fell back into the…
UF Pine Island pollen study leads to revision of state's ancient geography
— 3 Mar 2011 13:02 | Geology and palaeontologyA new University of Florida study of 45-million-year-old pollen from Pine Island west of Fort Myers has led to a new understanding of the state's geologic history, showing Florida could…
U. Iowa team investigates function of 'junk DNA' in human genes
— 1 Mar 2011 17:42 | HealthPart of the answer to how and why primates differ from other mammals, and humans differ from other primates, may lie in the repetitive stretches of the genome that were once considered…