Bringing Home the Bacon. And Cooking It.
A number of heories attempt to explain why married women tend to do more housework than their husbands (note: none of them are called the “Men Are Lazy Theory”).
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Giant Claw Helps Fiddler Crabs Stay Cool in More Ways Than One
A male fiddler crab's oversized claw not only looks cool to the ladies, but new research suggests it literally helps crabs to stay cool.
Middle-Aged Mothers and Fathers Only As Happy As Their Least Happy Grown Child, Research Shows
Parents’ emotional well-being and life satisfaction remain linked to their children’s successes and problems — particularly their least-happy offspring.
Females Can Place Limits on Evolution of Attractive Features in Males, Research Shows
How melodious or handsome males become over evolutionary time can be limited by the cognitive abilities of females.
Border Fences Pose Threats to Wildlife on U.S.-Mexico Border, Study Shows
Current and proposed border fences pose significant threats to wildlife populations, with those animals living in border regions along the Texas Gulf and California coasts showing some of the greatest vulnerability.
Insight: May 2011
In this issue of Insight, we explore diversity on campus, the science of spanking, the integration of technology into the classroom, and more.
Sodium Channels Evolved Before Animals’ Nervous Systems, Research Shows
An essential component of animal nervous systems—sodium channels—evolved prior to the evolution of those systems, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have discovered.
Fear: The Bioterrorist's Best Friend
Biochemist Andy Ellington muses on how our (exaggerated) fear of bioterrorism might be far more dangerous than any virus a terrorist could actually engineer and spread.
To Spank or Not to Spank: Is It Still A Question?
Elizabeth Gershoff studies the impact of corporal punishment (and other, more severe forms of physical punishment) on children. I sat down with her to ask her the big questions about spanking.
Sleepless Honey Bees Miscommunicate, Too, Research Shows
In the busy world of a honey bee hive, worker bees need their rest in order to best communicate the location of food to their hive mates.Read It Now
Read our publication, The Texas Scientist, a digest covering the people and groundbreaking discoveries that make the College of Natural Sciences one of the most amazing and significant places on Earth.
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