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Light Availability and Multi-Level Defenses of Urtica dioica

Urtica dioica contains medically useful antiviral and anti-inflammatory agents, and thus understanding factors that influence production of such compounds may prove beneficial. In Cerro de la Muerte, Costa…

Blindfolded Birdwatching: The Effect of Harmonics on Localization of Bird Calls

Abstract Sound with fewer harmonics is believed to be harder for humans to localize. Birds may have evolved calls with fewer harmonics in order to reduce predation risk….

Synesthesia: Opening the Doors of Perception

Once he tasted some chamomile tea and sent it back, saying only: “The stuff tastes of window.” Both she and the servants were surprised because they had never…

Oceans of Ice: The Snowball Earth Theory of Global Glaciation

The term Snowball Earth refers to the hypothesis that in the distant past, specifically the Cryogenian period (850-630 million years ago), the earth’s surface was entirely frozen from…

Serotonin: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Humanity

Neural activity in its simplest form is an action potential.  These phenomena propagate to the end of pre-synaptic neurons via voltage-gated channels, which reconfigure themselves just enough to…