Flying To The Tune Of A Neuropeptide Receptor: “Exciting” Insights From Fruit Flies
For a fruit fly, flying is just about everything. It is the most important innate behavior that helps the fly reach out to food sources…
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Yearly Archive: 2018
High Maternal Intake Of Gluten During Pregnancy Increases Risk Of Type-1 Diabetes In Offspring
A new study recently published in the BMJ provides evidence that high gluten consumption during pregnancy is associated with a higher risk of offspring developing…
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Rise Of The Non-Religious May Be Driven By Disconnect Parents Not Transmitting Religion To Children
Around the world, a notable shift in religious demographics is occurring. The number of people who don’t identify themselves with any organized religion is growing,…
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Study Finds Those Who Have Autism More Likely To Suffer From Depression
A new study done by researchers at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom implies that depression is up to three times more likely…
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Lab Grown Meat May Soon Be Available To General Public
Back in 2013, the emerging biotech field of lab-grown meat products held a tasting of a lab-grown burger which cost a staggering $330,000 dollars. The…
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Graph Quadrants: Definition And Names
Quadrants are how two-dimensional Cartesian systems are divided and the value of the points graphed within them depends on their location relative to the X-axis…
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Abdominal Quadrants (Regions) Of The Body
Physicians and anatomists divide the human abdomen into four different regions or quadrants. The quadrants are: the left lower quadrant, the right lower quadrant, the left…
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Mechanical Isolation: Examples And Definition
Mechanical isolation is a form of reproductive isolation that prevents two different species from interbreeding with one another. Along with gametic isolation, temporal isolation, ecological…
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Black Hole Caught Red Handed: Astronomers Observe Matter Falling Into Black Hole At 30% Speed Of Light
Of all the strange kinds of things discovered in our universe, black holes probably take the cake for simultaneously being one of the most fascinating…
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MDMA Makes Octopuses Friendlier And More Social
Despite stemming from phylogenetic lineages separated by 500 million years of evolution, octopuses and humans surprisingly have a lot in common. Of all the marine…
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Is Quantum Mechanics Internally Inconsistent? Thought Experiment Probes the Conceptual Foundations of QM
Thought experiments have been the bread and butter of modern physics since its inception. Galileo used a thought experiment to argue that all objects fall…
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