| "Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." - Albert Einstein |
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Dragonflies that cross oceans: simple observations lead to breathtaking discoveries
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- Is the Placebo Effect in Your DNA? The Atlantic 4/13/15
- Largest ever clinical study into echinacea finds herbal remedy CAN protect against colds Daily Mail 10/10/12
| "Biology is applied chemistry." - Anon. |
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- How lizards walk on water BBC News 11/24/04
- Why Toyota and GM Are Pushing Fuel-Cell Cars to Market MIT Technology Review 7/5/13
- Acid/Alkaline Theory of Disease Is Nonsense Quackwatch 1/11/09
- Cholesterol Metabolism The Medical Biochemistry Page
- State bans trans fats Los Angeles Times 7/26/08
- F.D.A. Ruling Would All but Eliminate Trans Fats N.Y. Times 11/08/13
- The 50 Worst Inventions: Olestra 5/27/10
- Gigantic Spider Webs Made of Silk Tougher Than Kevlar Wired.com 9/20/10
- Got lactase? University of California Museum of Paleontology April 2007
- Lactose Tolerance and Human Evolution Smithsonian 4/7/09
| "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate." - Anon. |
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- What's that stuff? soap bubbles Chemical & Engineering News 4/28/03
- Mitochondrial Inheritance Genetic Drift Winter/94
- 'Mitochondrial Eve': Mother of All Humans Lived 200,000 Years Ago ScienceDaily 8/17/10
- Reverse Osmosis Moves Forward. Environmental Health Perspectives Jan 2005
- What causes alewives to die off in great numbers? University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute 2013
- Fecal Transplants: They Work, the Regulations Don’t Wired.com 12/9/11
- A Map Of All The Microbes On Your Body NPR 6/13/12
| "When you breathe, you respire. When you do not breathe, you expire." - Anon. |
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- Spinach Power Adds Muscle to Batteries New York Times 11/11/04
- A Prayerbook's Secret: Archimedes Lies Beneath NPR 7/27/06
- Cellulosic ethanol output could explode Reuters 1/9/09
- Flower power makes tropics cooler, wetter University of Chicago 6/16/10
- Solar-powered sea slug harnesses stolen plant genes New Scientist 11/24/08
- Plant Pigments Paint a Rainbow of Antioxidants USDA 1/22/07
- Why Are Flamingos Pink? webexhibits.org
- Why Are Monkey Butts So Colorful? Popular Science 4/10/13
- New Risks for Nexium and Other Proton Pump Inhibitors Wall Street Journal 5/11/10
- NADH and chronic fatigue syndrome DC's Improbable Science 12/11/02
| "You are what your grandmother ate" - Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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- DNA barcodes for seafood EarthSky 6/23/12
- Ancient Siberian Genome Reveals Genetic Origins of Native Americans ScienceDaily 11/20/13
- Carnivorous plant throws out 'junk' DNA University at Buffalo 5/13/13
- The Sea Change That's Challenging Biology's Central Dogma Discover Magazine 11/3/09
- Alternative splicing and disease ScienceDirect January 2009
- How Did Humans Develop Lactose Tolerance? The Salt 12/28/12
- 'Asian Glow' Gene Shows Drinking Less Cuts Heart Risk Bloomberg 7/11/14
- GM Anopheles mosquitoes with glowing gonads may fight malaria Imperial College London 10/9/05
- A Mosquito Solution for Dengue in Florida: More Mosquitoes New York Times
- Malaria vaccine? Genetic Literacy Project 1/4/15
- Drought tolerant transgenic crops Science X Network 1/15/16
- The Gene-Altered Monster That Almost Got Away San Francisco State University 7/18/98
- Golden Rice Greenpeace International
- β-Carotene in Golden Rice is as good as β-carotene in oil at providing vitamin A to children American Journal of Clinical Nutrition September 2012
- Golden Rice-2 Shines in Nutrition Study Agricultural Research. Vol. 58 Issue 5 May 2010
- Bt-Corn and European Corn Borer University of Illinois Extension 2004
- Dolly Was Lucky Science News 01
- Cloning world's first copy-cat NewScientist 2/15/02
- How much DNA do you have?
- List of organisms by chromosome count
- How many mutations do your cells have?
- What caused this deletion mutation?
- RFLP as a genetic diagnostic tool: determining a person's genotype by gel electrophoresis
| "In the first step of meiosis, you don't divide by two, you multiply by two." - David C. Page |
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- Seedless Watermelon University of Arkansas 8/29/03
- Who Put The Navel In Navel Oranges? NPR 4/18/09
- First baby born with DNA from 3 parents CBS News 9/27/16
- Why do men have nipples? 6/18/79
- Brain cell regeneration sniffed out in adult humans New Scientist 2/15/07
- Ghost heart has a tiny beat Nature News 1/13/08
- Facebook and Apple Now Pay for Women to Freeze Eggs NBC News 10/14/14
- People With Down Syndrome Are Pioneers In Alzheimer's Research NPR 8/25/14
| "You are what your grandmother ate" - Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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- Baby Mix-Up Times Online 10/10/07
- How Blue Eyed Parents Can Have Brown Eyed Children The Tech Museum of Innovation 2013
- Tendency To Hair Loss Inherited From The Mother ScienceDaily 5/20/05
| "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." - Ernst Haeckel |
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- Darwin's theory of atoll formation The voyage of the Beagle 1839
- Darwin's study on barnacles Living Cirripedia 1954
- Darwin's experiments on mud on birds' feet The Origin of Species 1859
- Darwin's sexual selection theory best explanation for gender differences Mizzou Weekly 4/22/10
- Darwin's study on plant hormones The Power of Movement of Plants 1881
- Darwin's Earthworm Experiments Broke New Ground NPR 2/12/09
- On the Origin of Darwin's Finches Molecular Biology and Evolution 10/24/2000
- Yes, we have no bananas The Economist 5/1/14
- New Fossils Challenge Marsupial Evolution Theory Sci-News 7/25/13
- Archaeopteryx: The Transitional Fossil Science 4/28/15
- International team maps Big Bang of bird speciation Genome 10K 12/11/14
- Is The Hippopotamus The Closest Living Relative To The Whale? University of Calgary 3/19/2009
- If pharyngeal slits turn into gills, why don't humans have gills? University of Waikato 5/31/11
- Plate tectonics animation
- Blind spot test: imperfect adaptation for sight
| "You can take the frog out of the pond, but you cannot take the pond out of the frog." - Candace Savage |
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- Looks Matter Science News 10/1/05
- The Way to a Female Katydid's Heart? Offer Her Food LiveScience 9/27/11
- Why katydid girls fight over boys CBC News 10/7/11
- Oxytocin increases trust in humans Nature 6/2/05
- Pill Users Choose 'Wrong' Sex Partners WebMD 8/12/08
- Gay Men Respond to Male Pheromones Motherboard 5/1/14
- Lesbians Respond Differently to Human Pheromones National Geographic News 5/8/06
- Waggle Dance Controversy Resolved By Radar ScienceDaily 5/12/05
- Bee ocelli used for orientation BeeInformed 10/26/11
- Katydid courtship females eat spermatophore
| "Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits." - Charles Darwin |
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- Greenish Warbler, a 'ring species'? Phys.org 5/25/14
- Did Darwin get it wrong? Searching for the ancestor of Darwin's finches On Science 2005
- Evolution of Wheat CerealsDB
- Evolution of Cotton PNAS
- Triploid and tetraploid oysters U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization 2005
- Four-legged snake ancestor dug burrows BBC News 7/24/15
- Why do humans get goosebumps Scientific American 9/1/03
- Tsetse Flies Lactate and Give Birth to Live Larvae Discover Magazine 4/20/12
- Birds that make teeth EurekAlert 2/21/06
- Afrotheria: Unexpected Relatives! Yale Peabody Museum 2008
- Afrotheria: Plate tectonics meets genomics PNAS 1/2/01
- Evolution in the Order ELEPHANTIDAE Cornell University 2015
- The Elephantidae: Elephants and mammoths UC Museum of Paleontology 10/2011
- Woolly Mammoth migration Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
| "To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone." - Reba McEntire |
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- Acorn worm genome reveals gill origins of human pharynx Phys.org 11/18/15
- Coelacanth Genome Unlocked Scientific American 4/17/13
- Ancient Walking Whales National Geographic News 9/19/01
- Whale and hippo 'close cousins' BBC News 1/24/05
- Blue Whales With Pearly Whites New York Times 10/4/10
- Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution Nature 5/8/08
| "An inefficient virus kills its host, a clever virus stays with it." - James Lovelock |
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- Herpes Virus Used As Nanomachines For Cancer Treatment ScienceDaily ScienceDaily
- Influenza virus RNA genome Virology Blog 5/1/09
- The parasitic wasps that are genetically modifying butterflies Daily Mail 9/18/15
- Jumping species: How HIV entered our world Rockefeller University 7/30/13
- Hunting Fossil Viruses in Human DNA New York Times 1/11/10
- Endogenous retroviruses Retrovirology 10/3/06
- Engineered immune cells seem to block HIV CBS News 3/5/14
- Nuetralizing flu virus, and killing infected cells Elsevier 2006
- SouthKorea to cull 3 percent of poultry to contain bird flu Reuters 11//29/16
- Dengue virus lecture by Eva Harris, 2010 6:30-8:00 enters cell by endocytosis
| "Madam, I'm Adam." - Adam (to Eve) |
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- Extinction of the Rocky Mountain Locust Jeffery A. Lockwood 2004
- Boom-or-Bust Breeding Cycle That Helps the Mighty Oak Survive Wall Street Journal 11/4/16
- Compound Interest Calculator: exponential growth
| "The hound is running for his dinner, the rabbit is running for his life." - Aesop |
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- NZ flatulence tax outrages farmers BBC News 6/20/03
- Cow Power Could Generate Electricity For Millions ScienceDaily 7/25/08
| "It's important to rescue the frog." - Al Gore |
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- 3 Billion to Zero: What Happened to the Passenger Pigeon? Scientific American 6/27/14
- Happy 40th Anniversary to the Parakeets of Hyde Park Chicago magazine 3/18/13
- Why Are Monk Parakeets Leaving Hyde Park? 3/21/16
- The Story of the Stephens Island Wren BBC 6/2/06
- Florida panthers bound back thanks to Texas mates Washington Post 9/23/10
- Bluefin Tuna National Geographic Magazine March 2014
- Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute - to kill snakes NBC News 12/2/13
- McDonald's Pulls The Plug On Styrofoam Sustainable Business 9/27/13
- Greener, HFC-free refrigerator set to enter U.S. market in 2011 Washington Post 12/26/10
- EPA Approves Hydrocarbon Refrigerants for Commercial and Household Use Environment News Service 12/15/11
- Why New York banned polystyrene foam BBC 7/1/15
- Are Aerosols Still Bad for the Ozone Layer? Scientific American 9/4/08
- Greenhouse Effect on Venus Space Today Online 2005
- 2015 May Just Be Hottest Year on Record Scientific American 8/20/15
- The Popping of the Shale Gas Bubble Forbes 9/3/14
- Melting Ice Opens Fight Over Sea Routes for Arctic Debate Bloomberg Business 5/12/13
