New species of coral discovered off southern California
... thought to provide protection against disease and evil spirits. The Christmas tree coral was first noticed by the researchers during dives for surveys of rockfishes on deep rocky banks about 40 miles off the coast, west of Los Angeles. Many of the deepwater reefs in southern California harbor remarkably...Ants, not evil spirits, create devil's gardens in the Amazon rainforest, study finds
...d, according to local legend, are cultivated by an evil forest spirit," write Frederickson and her colleagues in Nature. "Here we show that the ant, Myrmelachista schumanni, which nests in D. hirsuta stems, creates devil's gardens by poisoning all plants except its hosts with formic acid. By killing other...Researchers identify cells that make relapse inevitable in acute lymphoblastic leukemia
...e" Robert Louis Stevenson wrote about the good and evil sides of the same person; now scientists in Austra...ant and aggressive from the very beginning, like a evil twin, if you like. While the 'good' twin, or the major clone, appears to be responding well and lu...