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November 25, 2009

Life Science

07/27/09

Life Science:  Ants more rational than humans, study says

A study released by researchers at ASU and Princeton University shows that ants can accomplish a task more rationally than ourselves.

07/13/09

University | Science | Students | Life Science:  Students share research work at international conference

Two ASU students had the chance to meet scientists and mathematicians from around the world during a June conference in New Jersey.

07/01/09

Life Science:  Beetles are popular among magazine’s ‘top 18 species’ list

Quentin Wheeler, an ASU entomologist who also is director of the International Institute for Species Exploration, named six of the top 18 specied on a list put together by Popular Mechanics.

06/24/09

Life Science:  Water webs connect spiders, residents in Southwest

If you are a cricket during dry season on the San Pedro River in Arizona, on your nighttime ramblings to eat leaves, you are more likely to be ambushed by thirsty wolf spiders, or so a new ASU study suggests.

06/22/09

University | Science | Faculty and Staff | Life Science:  What do toad toes show? Plenty, says ASU biologist

Professor Brian Sullivan's work with toads north of Phoenix provides evidence of how human activity can affect the process of species formation.

06/17/09

Life Science | Research | Sustainability and environment:  ASU researcher among authors of climate change report

Life sciences professor Nancy Grimm is one of the authors of a new and authoritative federal study assessing the current and anticipated domestic impacts of climate change.

06/12/09

Life Science | Research:  'Star Trek' vision still enthralls

ASU professor Lawrence Krauss writes in New Scientist that the science fiction drama "Star Trek" has "obvious appeal in times of uncertainty."

04/23/09

Science | Life Science | Earth / Space:  Unlikely life thriving at Antarctica’s Blood Falls

The key piece of data supporting the hypothesis that microbes are surviving in Blood Falls, Antarctica, came from samples analyzed by Associate Professor Ariel Anbar and a team of ASU researchers.

04/17/09

University | Arts / Culture | Science | Faculty and Staff | Humanities | Life Science | Research | Social Science:  Institute of Human Origins participates in Santa Barbara symposium

04/07/09

Life Science:  Renowned primatologist to speak at ASU

Author Sarah Hrdy comes to ASU to discuss the evolution of human societies as part of Darwinfest’s Darwin Distinguished Lecture Series.