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ScienceDaily (Mar. 11, 2010) — A three-year field program now underway is measuring carbon distributions and primary productivity in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean to help scientists worldwide determine the impacts of a changing climate on ocean biology and biogeochemistry. The study, Climate Variability on the East Coast (CliVEC), will also help validate ocean color satellite [...]

Biologists discovered a specific region of genes involved in the genomic adaptation of saltwater populations of stickleback fish to freshwater lakes in Alaska. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Oregon)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 8, 2010) — Twenty billion pieces of DNA in 100 small fish have opened the eyes of biologists studying evolution. After combining new technologies, [...]

Biologist Ronald Bassar of UC Riverside hunts for guppies in a stream in Trinidad. (Credit: Sonya Auer, UC Riverside.)

ScienceDaily (Feb. 9, 2010) — Biologists have known for long that ecology, the interaction between organisms and their environment, plays a significant role in forming new species and in modifying living ones. The traditional view is that [...]

A newly developed organic transistor has opened the way to new generations of neuro-inspired computers, capable of responding in a manner similar to the nervous system. (Credit: iStockphoto/Andrey Volodin)

ScienceDaily (Jan. 29, 2010) — For the first time, CNRS(1) and CEA(2) researchers have developed a transistor that can mimic the main functionalities of a synapse(3). This [...]

HUMANS living millions of years ago were endurance runners, but how did they do it without air-cushioned soles? The secret might have been to land on the balls of their feet.

Run on tip-toe like your ancestors (Image: Tatiana Morozova/iStock)
HUMANS living millions of years ago were endurance runners, but how did they do it without air-cushioned [...]

Scientists have found a striking similarity in the DNA that enables some bats and dolphins to echolocate.

The bottlenose dolphin is a toothed whale that uses echolocation. (J. Hill)

A key gene that gives their ears the ability to detect high-frequency sound has undergone the exact same changes over time in both creatures.
The researchers report their findings [...]

The DiCarlo Lab (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT) and the Cox Lab (Rowland Institute at Harvard University) have built this 16-GPU 'monster' supercomputer as part of their research efforts to build artificial vision systems inspired by the human brain. The 18" x18" x18" cube may be one of the most compact and inexpensive [...]

ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2009) — In contrast to the exhaustive research into venom produced by snakes and spiders, venomous fish have been neglected and remain something of a mystery. Now, a study of 158 catfish species, published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, has catalogued the presence of venom glands and investigated their [...]

ScienceDaily (Nov. 26, 2009) — Coral reefs support some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, yet they thrive in a marine desert. So how do reefs sustain their thriving populations?

Marine biologist Fleur Van Duyl from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research is fascinated by the energy budgets that support coral reefs in [...]

Scientists involved in the Genome 10K Project are assembling specimens of thousands of animals spanning a broad range of evolutionary diversity. (Credit: Photos courtesy of San Diego Zoo)

ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — Scientists have an ambitious new strategy for untangling the evolutionary history of humans and their biological relatives: Create a genetic menagerie made of [...]