Experts In The News

Las Vegas Sun

When you ask UNLV robotics professor Paul Oh how long his laboratory took to create, he can’t help but laugh.

ScienceBlogs

Dr. Frank van Breukelen is an Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­. He was invited to tell us about a new research project in this laboratory about some really cool mammals called tenrecs.

C-SPAN

Kendra Gage talked about the first Olympics held in the United States and the state of female athletics at the turn of the 20th century.

The Conversation

In 2008 she ran a "manly" campaign. This year's has started off more feminine. Is this what is needed to win Clinton the White House?

People have long imbued gold with mystical powers of immortality. Ancient alchemists ate it in search of longevity.
Futura Planète

Once bathing in the waters of the southwestern United States, a fish, Cyprinodon macularius , found in the Death Valley basement, has surprisingly adapted after the drastic change in its aquatic environment. The adaptation of its metabolism to new conditions is an astonishing example of physiological plasticity.

National Geographic

Tiny pupfish have adapted their respiration to go without oxygen for long stretches.

Phys.org

And you thought you could hold your breath for a long time. Enter the desert pupfish, a tiny fish that has been playing evolutionary catch-up due to the extreme changes in its environment over the last 10,000 years.