Having lived in Damascus, Syria for the past 10 months, a city widely believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited place on earth, I have become somewhat immune to seeing what are considered to be the most ancient and well preserved ruins in the world today.

A perfect example of this is...

Protein is a vital part of our diet and participates in almost every process within our cells. On average, we need about 90 grams of protein a day to sustain a nutritional and healthy life. Some people get their protein from animals and others, like me, are vegetarian and obtain their protein from...

While past articles in the biofuels section of Greenseedling have suggested that corn might not be the most ideal crop for biofuel production, research that has been conducted by Rice University postdoctoral fellow Morgan Gallagher and colleagues has revealed information that might alleviate some...

Naturalists have long been fascinated by the incredible swathes and splotches of colors present on organisms ranging from plants to insects.  Two years after Darwin published Origin of Species and forever changed science’s understanding of how such diversity arises, Henry Walter Bates proposed...

Animals and plants alike are capable of using their biological clocks to alter internal processes. Animals’ circadian rhythms, for example, can guide their sleep/wake cycles by altering levels of hormones. Additionally, migratory animals such as birds or monarch butterflies use their biological...

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) have been a huge topic of debate for many years now and most of the time, we hear the about the possible negative effects that these crops carry with them – rarely do we hear about their beneficial outcomes.

Researchers at Lawrence Berkley National...