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We Might Be Martians: The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes
Christine Daniloff / MIT News
Planning on looking at your family tree? If you go back far enough in time, you might discover relatives who used to live on Mars. While that notion may seem a little far-fetched at first, don't laugh. According to MIT News, many scientists consider that life on Earth may be descended from organisms that arrived here from...
Legends of Irish Giants Are More Than Tall Tales
Press Association
Although the Irish legend of leprechauns is probably just a load of blarney, there's scientific evidence suggesting that the fabled stories of giants living on the Emerald Isle aren't just tall tales. According to a study in The New England Journal of Medicine, it seems that Northern Ireland is a hot spot for people with...
Mini Moos: Miniature Cattle Are Cash Cows for Breeder
Courtesy of IMCBS
Yes, good things often come in small packages. We brought you a lot of animal stories in 2010, but the year ended in a bang on a Colorado farm with the birth of a rare miniature panda cow. The calf, named Ben, arrived at the farm of Chris Jessen, but Ben's father, a 1,000-pound panda bull, was sold to Jessen by Richard...
Background on genetics
Genetics (from Ancient Greek ', "genitive" and that from ', "origin"), a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms.
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