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Love study Free
Scientific American magazine in Feb 2011 has a back page article called "Your Brain in Love" by Mark Fischetti. This article describes how fMRI studies with people who declare their state of love while...
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MRSA attacked Free
MRSA, which stands for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, is nearly impossible to defeat once an infection settles into the body but researchers may have found a new weapon. Details of the...
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Chemical Signal for Mate Selection Free
This article demonstrates how a chemical signal and behaviour to use the signal might be affected by natural selection. This could be used as one of the two examples in Option E1.4. Gil Rosenthal, a...
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Correlations in databases Free
We get frequent news items that claim something is related to another factor. Students need to learn how to read through these messages for better understanding of the science and consequences. Dave...
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Google's Body Browser Free
Everyone must have seen GoogleEarth by now. Type in a location and swoosh the computer flies you in to the precise spot you wanted. Google has gone into outer space and the deep ocean too. Now Google...
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Foreshadowing of Frankenfish? Free
This is a very interesting and early article about the risks of GMO fish which draws attention to the blog about Frankenfish being allowed to sold for human consumption- see Frankenfish. Just be because...
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Genetics of bird song Free
Brian Wallheimer's article "Some birds listen, instead of look, for mates"Wallheimer, Brian. "Some birds listen, instead of look, for mates." Purdue News Service. Purdue University, 2 Dec. 2010. Web....
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Arsenic based life forms Free
Remember the murder mystery "Arsenic and old lace" , where a couple of old ladies did away with guests using arsenic poisoning? Researchers in California have found a life form that uses arsenic in place...
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Biodiversity & food webs Free
A very interesting article, "Study: Ecological effects of biodiversity loss underestimated" Boyd, Jade. "Rice University | News & Media." Rice University | News & Media. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Dec. 2010. ....
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Coral reef die-off Free
"A massive coral bleaching event in Southeast Asian reefs in the Indian and Pacific oceans is the worst coral die-off since 1998, and possibly the worst science has ever observed, says Andrew Baird of...