Elizabeth Preston
Humans sleep away ⅓ of their lives, but it’s a lot less than other primates. Here’s why
Research has shown that people in non-industrial societies — the closest thing to the kind of setting our species evolved ...
Humans sleep a lot more than other primates. Here’s an evolutionary explanation why
On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars. They have no electric lights or new ...
‘She is a force of nature’: Meet the professor trying to make bone marrow transplants safer
[Agnieszka Czechowicz] is now an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In her lab research, ...
Male investment: Humans are one of the few species in which men supply a lot more than sperm
Lee Gettler is hard to get on the phone, for the very ordinary reason that he’s busy caring for his ...
Why are humans one of the few species in which fathers play an ongoing role in child-rearing?
Male mountain gorillas don’t seem to know or care which young are theirs. But nearly all males tolerate the company ...
Will we soon be able to regenerate limbs?
[Axolotl] salamanders stand out as the only vertebrates that can replace complex body parts that are lost at any age, ...
Biotech companies now using CEOs as human guinea pigs for new drugs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As CEO of biotech ...
Drugs for your microbiome may be coming soon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Those drugs in your ...
First-borns get better education, but worse eyesight
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s bad enough for ...
Sneaky monkey ‘hook-ups’ give peek into primate cognition
Just how much monkey business is there in monkey sex? In groups with alpha males, monkeys lower on the totem ...
Bacteria in isolation mutate more
Bacteria that have no friends don’t get sad; they get weird. When E. coli cells sense fewer other bacteria around ...
Algae suicide helps its relative and harms its rivals
You might say the benefit of staying alive is an actual no-brainer: even brainless lifeforms do their best not to ...
