biology Archives - Trebuchet

It Sent Shivers Down My Neurons

05/12/2018

How is it that a sound can send a chill down your spine? By observing individual brain cells of mice, scientists are understanding how sound incites fear....

Gigantic Mammal ‘Cousin’ Discovered

23/11/2018

The discovery of Lisowicia changes our ideas about the latest history of dicynodonts, and also raises more questions about what made them and dinosaurs so large....

The Neurobiology of Social Aggression

19/10/2018

Research shows signalling mechanism in the brain shapes social behaviour, with implications for understanding social hierarchy, bullying and aggression. ...

Humans Cause of Sixth Mass Extinction

16/10/2018

If current conservation efforts are not improved, so many mammal species will become extinct during the next five decades that nature will need 3–5 million years to recover....

Find The Fish

03/10/2018

For the first time, locations on the human genome have been identified that can explain differences in meaning in life between individuals. ...

Invasive Snakes Hitchhiking With US Military

26/09/2018

A research team has been studying why a type of cat-eyed snake has been so effective at devastating native bird populations on the island of Guam....

We’re Not In Kansas Any More, Toto

29/08/2018

Sleep is known to allow animals to re-energise and consolidate memories. Now, scientists have identified a pair of genes that regulate how much REM and non-REM sleep an animal experiences. ...

Escaping Fear: You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat

27/06/2018

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science have discovered a circuit in the brain that is necessary for unlearning fear....

Snuggle or Die: Sociable Monkeys More Likely to Survive Winter

30/05/2018

A new study is the first to show that social huddling may be a mechanism that connects social bonding to higher fitness....

Arachnophobes, Rejoice: Kim the Jumping Spider Has Training

09/05/2018

Scientists at the University of Manchester have successfully trained a spider to jump on demand to discover the secrets of animal movement....

Why Do We Have Eyebrows? Finally We Have an Evolutionary Explanation

11/04/2018

Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution...

Could This Be The End For Testing On Animals?

14/03/2018

MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect possible side effects before the drugs are tested in humans. ...