"Recent research has shown that size-selective commercial fishing causes genetic changes in fish, with wide-ranging implications for sustainable …
Unwanted Evolution
"We mostly think of evolution as a process that has the power to build structures of incredible beauty and functionality, like multicellular organisms, the nervous system, and human language. But evolutionary dynamics can also lead to processes that …
Instructional Complexity and the Science to Constrain It
"School-researcher partnerships and large in vivo experiments help focus on useful, effective, instruction" http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6161/935.full.pdf?sid=e546fd9f-1fa6-40cc-9e17-f6ad8ead5c3c …
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New Tools Light Up the Intricacies of the Brain
"Europe and the United States have recently launched large neuroscience research initiatives aimed at untangling the complex workings of the human brain. Meeting this aim will require new tools that can map the brain's structure from the level of …
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Humans Fueled Global Warming Millennia Ago
"People were already pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere 5000 years before the Industrial Revolution, air bubbles in Antarctic ice suggest. The new evidence—in part from an exceptional record of atmospheric methane freshly cored from the …
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World War 1. Does it ever end?
Next year is the centennial of the beginning of World War I. What a terribly horrific war. The effects of that war are still with us today, though so many of us think that it all ended in 1918. Not so. Germany completed its final reparation …
