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Resetting the Circadian ClockBiological clocks play an essential role in physiology and in controlling behaviour – from regulating sleep cycles in animals to balancing photosynthesis in plants. Now, research published in Nature suggests that our model of how the clock works might be wrong...
Chewing the cud (and how it got there)Researchers in America this week have dramatically enlarged the catalogue of known genes which allow an organism to break down plants. This new information could be very useful in producing biofuel from plant matter.
Many heads are better than oneAnimals come to better decisions more quickly in larger groups, according to research published in the journal PNAS this week...
Brain activity can demonstrate how fast a second language is learnedThis week teams in both Hong Kong and Chicago have found that the levels of activity in two specific areas of the brain can be used to predict how well someone is learning a second language. |
Rapid Change in Bacterial GenomeNew research sheds light on how some bacteria are capable of extremely quick genetic change, incorporating whole sections of DNA from other cells to evade our immune system and invalidate our vaccines... |
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