Archive: Mar 2014

Fake electric flowers reveal surprising bee seduction technique

Photo by Annemarie Mountz, from http://phys.org/news/2013-02-bees-electrical-fields.html Flowers seduce bees with attractants such as color, shape, and scent. Scientists now think that flowers may have another surprising attractant in their repertoire:…

The Flash Name Change: Signal to Noise

  Hello new and former readers! My name is Tyler J. Ford. I’ve been an editor for this newsletter for almost four years and recently took over as Editor-in-Chief for Jamie Schafer who will be graduating very soon (Congrats to Jamie!). We’ll be…

Bacterial Genes Reveal Course of Infection

Figure 1 ~ Bacteria infecting your body continue to evolve as they reproduce. [Image credit: CDC/ Judith Noble-Wang, Ph.D. http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/details.asp?pid=8669]              Like most of the trillions of bacteria that surround us, growing on…

Putting Your DNA to the Test: How much of what it says is true?

Who am I? This is a fundamental question that philosophers and anthropologists have been trying to answer for generations. With the discovery of DNA and the development of technologies to investigate genetic information, people have begun to probe the…