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...conclude that sex, like other aerobic workouts, can protect against heart disease, but studies in support of this link have yet to be done. "Can we make the claim that having sex is equal to walking a mile or bicycling? We don't know," says Robert Friar, a biologist at Michigan's Ferris State University. "The data don't really exist...
...says zebrafish are particularly ideal subjects because a biologist can use them for “forward genetics”—identifying genes by inducing mutations and then finding the specific gene related to the produced phenotype, or appearance...
...most famous work, “Fauna Secreta,” Fontcuberta created stunningly realistic documentation of a surreal host of Darwin-defying plants and animals, all dutifully photographed, scientifically named and explained by the fictitious German biologist Dr. Peter Ameisenhaufen, one of Fontcuberta’s alter egos. While “Fauna Secreta” has since toured many well-known art museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it was first exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History in Madrid as a genuine scientific catalog. With no posted indication that this exhibit...
When Monster.com launched in 1994, the jobs website contained just a few hundred postings, nearly all of which sought tech workers. Today, job supersites like HotJobs.com and CareerBuilder.com along with Monster, host hundreds of thousands of listings for everything from marine mechanic to molecular biologist. But in a job market that is only beginning to warm up, these sites can start to feel like dark voids where resumes go in and offers seldom come out. Monster alone receives 40,000 new resumes a day. Says Monster founder Jeff Taylor: "Prepare for a competition." Here are some tips...
...water." The Helsinki Commission, which works to protect the Baltic marine environment, has said the toxins should be left on the seabed. That is the general consensus. "It has been there for so long that it poses the least hazard where it is," says biologist Henning Karup of Denmark's Environmental Protection Agency. Only a few fishermen have been treated for gas-related injuries since the 1960s, and the long-term environmental impact is unclear...