The American Association for the Advancement of Science news site, EurekAlert!, brings us this week’s topic. Increasing rates of extinctions have focused conservation biologists on finding the most effective means of preserving biodiversity. Releasing captive-bred animals is one. However, a review of 45 published studies of 17 different carnivores revealed the high mortality rates of […]

The irony of Greenland’s name has intrigued many of us, but according to a January 8, 2008, New York Times story, In Greenland, Ice and Instability, the irony may be short-lived. A series of unusually warm springs has increased the ice melt, and contributed to a cascade of related events. The melting ice is darker […]

When are root hair cells not root hair cells? When they differentiate into skin cells! According to Growing Artificial Skin From Hair Roots, a recent article from ScienceDaily, researchers in Leipzig have perfected a technique in which they use a person’s root hair cells as a source of stem cells that can be cultured […]