Biology News

Fertile conversation - scientists have found that fertile females sound different

In a study published in Evolution and Human Behaviour, Gordon Gallup and Nathan Pipitone from the State University of New York at Albany describe how they recorded women counting u...

Best tool to find explosives? Mine's a mongoose!

Engineers in Sri Lanka have come up with a cheap but effective way to locate landmines - a mongoose tethered to a robot! ...

Cornflakes for boys

We know that many reptiles like crocodiles can choose the sex of their offspring by controlling the temperature their eggs are incubated at. And now it has been revealed that human...

Vitamin death-link hard pill to swallow

Vitamin supplements might make you die sooner, say researchers. Goran Bjelakovic and his colleagues, from the University of Copenhagen, looked at the resul...

Testosterone beefs up market bubbles

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that the performance of financial traders is linked to their hormones. ...

Researchers take long look at shortsightedness

Your birthday could affect your risk of shortsightedness, a study in Israel has found. Writing in the journal Opthalmology, Jossi Mandel studied the medica...

Evolution seen on a laboratory bench

In an experiment that might help to silence the critics of evolution, scientists in California have made genes evolve on a laboratory bench. Writing in thi...

Pesticide blasting bacteria

Researchers this week have revealed a new way of using bacteria to help mop up harmful chemicals in the environment like pesticides. ...

Bacteria eat antibiotics

Scientists in the US have discovered large numbers of soil-dwelling bacteria that are not only resistant to multiple classes of antibiotics, they also eat them! ...

Feed a cold, for definite

Scientists have come up with strong immunological evidence for why you should always feed a cold. Writing in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, Lynn Ma...