What’s light got to do with it?
Serendipity (coupled with sharp observation) struck twice in Randy J. Nelson’s lab, at Ohio State University. He first began investigating the effect of light on mood disorders when a graduate student...
View ArticleAll the single (polyandrous) ladies
Evolutionary biology has long emphasized that males can increase their reproductive fitness by mating with many females. Females, conversely, have been thought to benefit by remaining more demure. But...
View ArticleBurdens of the brilliant
Please answer this one-question test: Creativity is A) Good. B) Bad. Did you choose option A? Of course you did, because nobody would say they hate creativity – it would be like saying you hate the...
View ArticleWaiter! – there’s a Drosophila melanogaster in my beer!
There’s a reason that fruit flies are called fruit flies, and not “beer flies”. Fruit flies like sugar: we see them hovering around our over-ripe bananas, or jostling like crazed groupies for an...
View ArticleI’m not dead yet
Fans of Monty Python and the Holy Grail may smile when they hear that familiar dull clank, accompanied by the plaintive cry: bring out your dead! But not everybody is laughing, particularly those on...
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