Sensory organ, not brain, differentiates sexual behavior in some mammals

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Aug 05, 2007 | 4.6 / 5 (21) | 1

For years, scientists have searched in vain for slivers of the brain that might drive the dramatic differences between male and female behavior. Now biologists at Harvard University say these efforts may have fallen flat ...

Maturity brings richer memories

Medicine & Health / Research

Aug 05, 2007 | 4.3 / 5 (13) | 0

MIT neuroscientists exploring how memory formation differs between children and adults have found that although the two groups have much in common, maturity brings richer memories.

Study identifies source of fever

Medicine & Health / Research

Aug 05, 2007 | 4.1 / 5 (7) | 0

With the finding that fever is produced by the action of a hormone on a specific site in the brain, scientists have answered a key question as to how this adaptive function helps to protect the body during bacterial infection ...

Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe

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Aug 05, 2007 | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 0

Ocean historians affiliated with the Census of Marine Life have painted the first detailed portrait of a burst of fishing from 1900 to 1950 that preceded the collapse of once abundant bluefin tuna populations ...

Disabling a sensory organ prompts female mice to act like male mice

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Aug 05, 2007 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

By short-circuiting the sensory organ that detects the chemical cues mice use to attract mates, a team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers has prompted female mice to behave like male mice in the throes ...