Why Most Snails Coil to the Right
GUELPH, CANADA—When plucking a snail from the beach you’d be lucky...
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Multicellularity Driven by Bacteria
MONTREAL, CANADA—When taking a dip this summer you will probably swallow...
A rare he-she butterfly is born in London’s NHM
A half-male, half-female butterfly has hatched at London’s Natural History Museum....
Researchers Grow Protoeye in Dish
It’s not quite Avatar, but a movie released today shows, in...
The Secret of the Glowing Snail
Talk about an inner glow. The marine snail, Hinea brasiliana, radiates...
The Curious Case of the Backwardly Aging Mouse
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, “The Curious Case of Benjamin...
Ancient Tweaking
Twenty years ago, scientists knew nothing of the scraps of RNA...
Aberrant appendages
Having a second pair of hands might seem like an advantage...
Pinning the tail on the histone
Nearly 60 years ago, Pamela Lewis, a geneticist at the California...