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You may have missed it in biology class, but in some finned species, like the Atlantic silverside - as well as in many reptiles - sex is determined not by genetics but by temperature: the undifferentiated embryo develops testes or ovaries on the basis of whichever option conveys evolutionary advantages for that...
Beeri and her group are already trying to figure out how - and why - the combination therapies might curb plaque formation but leave the tangles alone. One theory is that the drugs normalize the communication network of insulin receptors, which go awry in the Alzheimer's brain, somehow restoring those pathways...
The language was dry, understated, yet painfully clear. What caused the space shuttle Challenger to explode last Jan. 28, killing its seven passengers? ''Failure of the pressure seal in the aft-field joint of the right solid-rocket motor.'' Why was the shuttle allowed to fly if unsafe? ''Neither Thiokol...
Yeah. You know, the late George Carlin said that satirists - or I think his word was cynics but I think really the word he intended is satirists - are basically disappointed idealists. So you're making people laugh, but you're kind of writing from anger: "It shouldn't be this...
The crazy talk, in fact, is mostly theater. U.S. and Iranian flashpoints in Iraq and the Persian Gulf have been quiet recently, as both sides have been careful to avoid a sustained clash that could escalate into outright conflict. And Iran showed no new military capabilities with the tests. At...