What Lurks in This Flower’s Bizarrely Large Y Chromosome?
Scientists published a full genetic sequence of the genes that make some white campions male, and hope their work could ...
Scientific American24d
The Curious History of Venn Diagrams
In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...
World Socialist Web Site29d
125,000 insured by Anthem Blue Cross dropped from Scripps San Diego health system
Those impacted received a message informing them that, “Scripps Health is now out of network with Anthem Blue Cross, effective ... The $4.3 billion health system is cynically claiming that ...
Nature29d
Male spiders smell with their legs
Male wasp spiders use the hairs on their legs to sniff out mates 1. A sense of taste has been documented in many spiders, but how most species smell airborne chemicals remains a mystery ...