Mon, Jan 09, 2012 3:11 PM in Colony Collapse Disorder
Anyone who has seen or read about the movie The Happening, may recall the Mark Wahlberg character citing the sudden illness and collapse of bee hives as an example of environmental imbalance. While scientists are not proposing anything as outlandish as what happens in that movie, they may have found another cause or factor in the evolving bee dysfunction known as colony collapse disorder (CCD). Th...
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Fri, Jan 06, 2012 2:43 PM in Adaptation and Evolution in Insects
The following article would make a great companion piece to any lesson involving adaptation or even the merits of using GMOs.
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Fri, Jan 06, 2012 2:38 PM in The human appendix: maybe we need that bacteria bag
In a recent Scientific American blog post, guest blogger Rob Dunn writes about surgeon Bill Parker and his hypothesis for an unrecognized function of the human appendix.
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