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- Racialized communication met with silence in the classroomToday
- White privilege enables racially laden communication that regenerates, albeit unintentionally, the social exclusion of American Indian students. Moreover, as the essay argues, this exclusion results not only in myriad unearned stresses for American Indian students but sometimes also in their ultimately abandoning their academic objectives.
- Supercontinuum generation and soliton dynamics milestone achievedToday
- A research team led by Fetah Benabid, University of Bath, has observed for the first time the simultaneous emission of two resonant dispersive waves by optical solitons, waves that maintain their shape while traveling at constant speeds, according to a new report in Optics Letters.
- JCI table of contents: Nov. 20, 2008Today
- This release contains summaries, links to PDFs, and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published Nov. 20, 2008, in the JCI: "Preventing tumor cells from refueling: a new anticancer approach?;" "To contract or not: a key question for the uterine muscles in pregnancy;" "Helping the embryo implant: a new role for one type of immune cell;" "Increased calcium sensitivity in the heart can make for an irregular heartbeat;" and others.
- Two from one: Pitt research maps out evolution of genders from hermaphroditic ancestorsToday
- Research from the University of Pittsburgh published in the Nov. 20 edition of Heredity could finally provide evidence of the first stages of the evolution of separate sexes, a theory that holds that males and females developed from hermaphroditic ancestors. These early stages are not completely understood because the majority of animal species developed into the arguably less titillating separate-sex state too long ago for scientists to observe the transition.
- December 2008 highlights from Biology of ReproductionToday
- The following are articles featured in December's Biology of Reproduction.