Laura Baisas
‘Forest reset’: When dinosaurs went extinct, rainforests thrived — allowing new vining grapes to evolve
A lack of dinosaurs traipsing around following the K-T mass extinction may have allowed the grape we know and love to spread and thrive. A team ...
What makes humans great long distance runners?
Endurance running when hunting for game shows that it may be just as efficient as other more traditional hunting methods ...
Sensitivity to pain may be linked to our inherited Neanderthal genes
Scientists are still not sure if carrying these ancient genetic variants and greater sensitivity to pain was an evolutionary advantage ...
Banana flavored beer? Gene edited yeast expands beer taste possibilities
Beer may have lost some of its past flavor. Beer had historically been brewed in open, horizontal vats, but the ...
Just add air and water: The simplest recipe for life on Earth
The origins of how life on Earth arose remains a deep existential and scientific mystery. It’s long been theorized that ...