What If We Have The Whole Tonsils Thing Completely Backwards?
Everyone knows someone who has had their tonsils taken out at some point in their lives. In some families, it is practically a rite of…
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Accessing Greater Microstructure-Related Information In The Brain Through MRI
Can one access properties of human cells in vivo? Imaging deeply inside human bodies is possible with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but its spatial resolution…
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The Odd Icy Moons Of Saturn: After Cassini, We Still Don’t Know Everything
Cassini Mission scientists were thrilled when they got permission for a “sneak peek” at Saturn’s mysterious moon Iapetus on New Year’s Day 2005. Soon after…
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Why Are There More Species Packed In Some Places Than Others, And Why Does It Matter?
THE QUESTION Biodiversity – the richness of species found at a given location – is critical to maintaining ecological processes and the benefits provided to…
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What “Bee Services” Can Different Temperate Lowland Ecosystems Really Provide?
The natural environment delivers many goods and services that human beings cannot manage without. Health, energy, and safety are just a few of the basic…
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease: How To Obtain An Animal Model That Resembles The Human Illness
Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are the two main types of an autoimmune disease called Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Since the beginning of…
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Are Ecological Interactions More Intense In The Tropics?
THE QUESTION When we think about a tropical site, what commonly comes in mind is heat, rainforests, beaches, and colorful reefs. The tropics are the…
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How The Last Deglaciation Period Affected Antarctic Intermediate Water Penetration In The Bay Of Bengal
The last deglaciation period (∼18–10 kyr BP) presents a transition from the last glacial stage to warm interglacial, accompanied by an increase in global temperature,…
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Effects Of Acute Suppression Of Slow-Wave Sleep On Young Men’s Androgen Levels
Sleep restriction and sleep disturbances are increasingly common in modern industrialized societies, due to, for instance, work-related stress and atypical working hours. In addition, our…
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Using A Dynamic Weighting Schema With Memory To Evolve Clusters By Forgetting Old Samples
The Internet of Things (IoT) and the advances in sensors have drastically increased the number of devices connected to the Internet. This has led to…
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Venom Can Be Used As Future Therapeutic Agents Against Cancer, TB, And HIV/AIDS
Venom is a secretion produced by specific animals, which is synthesized in the specialized cells of their body. Animal venoms constitute a plethora of bioactive…
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