Latin makes a comeback

Only the awesomest thing I've ever found to give a biologist this holiday season.

Flirting appears to be a universal -- and I would venture, innate -- human behavior. It is so universal that the degree to which many aspects of it are downright odd often go unnoticed, such as the fact that making fun of each other seems to be part of it.

Reading through an old book on politeness, I ran across what may be a partial explanation for this strange human phenomenon.

Recent research may have solved an old riddle in human development.

Conferences on various topics of microbiology are held regularly in various locations around the world. Over fifty different conferences are currently listed.

The newest volume of Environmental Research has a special section focusing in the biological and ecological impacts of plastics... and the results aren't pretty.

Physics was plunged into over a thousand years of darkness through fear brought about by brutality in the name of religion. Scientific investigation (looked down upon by the greeks) has made a come back over the past 300-500 years...why hasn't thinking and philosophy (held in high importance by the greeks)...indeed it appears to have backtracked. How can I have completed a degree in Physics without having been expected to read Plato's Allegory of the Cave?

Where can you see the buffalo roam, and the deer and the antelope play? Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming! Last August, I was privileged to spend five days exploring the park. Now, I'll share what I learned about the wildlife in America's first national park – and last wild habitat for many of these animals.

Russian scientists developed a technique, which allows studying the way hurricanes move and finding out the amount of heat and moisture they carry to mid-latitudes and mid-high latitudes from tropics. The technique is based upon data of Earth’s satellite monitoring in the microwave range.

It is increasingly common for criminal defendants to point to underlying mental illness as a mitigating factor. The problem with such a defense is that it completely misunderstands the science.