Biology
21/07/2022 - 14:02
The Israeli national team won three gold medals this week at the International Science Olympiad. The participants, from ninth to twelfth... →
09/03/2022 - 13:23
The breakthrough, which has yet to be tested against fertilization, could provide hope for those above 40 years old, whose aged eggs often... →
13/08/2021 - 13:08
But just how long could a human actually live? It’s a question people have been asking for centuries. While average life expectancy (the... →
04/12/2020 - 14:37
“What the DeepMind team has managed to achieve is fantastic and will change the future of structural biology and protein research,” says... →
04/03/2020 - 16:39
The team found a collection of small charcoal samples, which contained traces of the different foods the site’s earliest residents cooked... →
19/12/2019 - 17:58
Using the human genome, the researchers found that the maximum natural lifespan of humans is 38 years, which matches anthropological... →
15/02/2019 - 14:36
By 1961, Medvedev had established a strong reputation both within the Soviet Union and abroad as a pioneering gerontologist, arguing that... →
12/01/2018 - 12:47
Most everyone knows that women, on average, live longer than men. But nobody knows why. Some have suggested it is because men behave... →
21/09/2017 - 12:47
Sperm whales aren’t the only animals who learn like this. I have spent time with bottlenose dolphins, for instance, in many different... →
12/02/2017 - 13:03
This view still guides much of biomedical research; organisms, cells, gene networks and more are routinely perturbed to determine how these... →
06/02/2017 - 12:59
What’s the difference between physics and biology? Take a golf ball and a cannonball and drop them off the Tower of Pisa. The laws of... →
08/01/2017 - 15:32
The unifying theme for much of modern biology is based on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, the process of natural selection by which... →