Category Archives: Medicinal News

Seeing through the eyes of a crab

Society for Neuroscience. "Seeing through the eyes of a crab: New research provides insight into the visual world of a crustacean." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 16 July 2018. .

Society for Neuroscience. (2018, July 16). Seeing through the eyes of a crab: New research provides insight into the visual world of a crustacean. ScienceDaily....

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Australia has a new venomous snake — And it may already be threatened

The ink has not yet dried on a scientific paper describing a new species of snake, yet the reptile may already be in danger of extinction due to mining.

A team of biologists led by The University of Queensland's Associate Professor Bryan Fry discovered a new species of bandy-bandy snake at Weipa on the west coast...

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84 highly endangered amur leopards remain in China and Russia

Scientists estimate there are only 84 remaining highly endangered Amur leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis) remaining in the wild across its current range along the southernmost border of Primorskii Province in Russia and Jilin Province of China.

This new estimate of the Amur leopard population was recently reported in the scientific journal, Conservation Letters by scientists from...

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Rats trail behind shrews, monkeys, and humans in visual problem solving

Society for Neuroscience. "Rats trail behind shrews, monkeys, and humans in visual problem solving: Work could have important implications for translational research." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 12 July 2018. .

Society for Neuroscience. (2018, July 12). Rats trail behind shrews, monkeys, and humans in visual problem solving: Work could have important implications for translational...

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Fuzzy yellow bats reveal evolutionary relationships in Kenya

After Halloween, people tend to forget about bats. But, for farmers, residents of Kenya, and scientists, bats are a part of everyday life. While North America has 44 species, Kenya, a country the size of Texas, has 110 bat species. Many of these species also contain subspecies and further divisions that can make the bat...

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Antioxidant benefits of sleep

Understanding sleep has become increasingly important in modern society, where chronic loss of sleep has become rampant and pervasive. As evidence mounts for a correlation between lack of sleep and negative health effects, the core function of sleep remains a mystery. But in a new study publishing 12 July in the open access journal PLOS...

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