One summer several years ago, Harry Creffield got a dream job acting in a play in Cornwall, a vacation destination on England’s southern coast. The actor and comedian was given free accommodations and ...

Much more difficult is learning to connect different types of stimuli or events, and predicting that one is linked to another. Such associative learning was most famously demonstrated when Ivan Pavlov ...

Some single-celled organisms are known to transition to multicellularity during their lifetimes, usually either by cloning themselves or when many similar cells come together to form a larger ...

Some fungi, particularly species in the order Mucorales, can change from one form to another by changing what genes they express. Mucor lusitanicus will take the form of yeast in anaerobic ...

Self-affirmation theory was proposed by psychologist Claude Steele in the late 1980s and remains popular today. The theory suggests we have a deep desire to craft a personal narrative that we are ...

Unicellular organisms show surprising complexity In a paper appearing in Nature Genetics, researchers discover that in more "primitive" unicellular organisms, both the adenine and the cytosine bases ...

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PITTSFIELD — Seven patients have tested positive for the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease, Berkshire Health Systems reported on Thursday. One of the patients later died, although because of ...

“Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” ― Voltaire “Life does not have to be ...

A lot of us have trained ourselves to expect the worst—not because we want to be pessimists, but because figuring out how to be more positive often feels like an abstract concept, tied to forced, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — In the quest to take the “forever” out of “forever chemicals,” bacteria might be our ally. Most remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involves adsorbing and ...