Archive of BEACON Press

2012 Press Releases

• 2/6: MSU Nominees for 2012 Goldwater Scholarship announced [PDF]
• 1/26: MSU researchers show how new viruses evolve, and in some cases, become deadly [PDF]
• 1/26: NSF Press release: Researchers show how new viruses evolve, and in some cases, become deadly [PDF]

2011 Press Releases

• 11/21: Research sheds new light on body parts’ sensitivity to environmental changes [PDF]
• 9/9: Evolution keeps sex determination flexible [PDF]
• 8/22: Hyenas’ ability to count helps them decide to fight or flee [PDF]
• 7/19: Avian ‘Axe effect’ attracts attention of females and males [PDF]
• 6/30: Mutations help organisms become kings of the mountain [PDF]
• 4/14: MSU Museum explores evolution in action [PDF]
• 3/24: Allen Foundation awards grant to KGI professor to study brain complexity [PDF]
• 3/23: Miller-Urey experiment recreated in art-science exhibit [PDF]
• 3/23: Larger female hyenas produce more offspring [PDF]
• 3/22: In the race of life, better an adaptable tortoise than a fit hare [PDF]

2011 Media Coverage

• 12/02: SunLive (NZ): Possibilities of Land Use Analysis [PDF]
• 11/30: New York Times: DNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data [PDF]
• 11/25: LiveScience Behind the Scenes: Worms can evolve to survive intersex populations [PDF]
• 10/4: TED.com: “Christoph Adami: Finding life we can’t imagine” (Video)
• 9/23: State News: New robotic fish detect harmful pollutants [PDF]
• 9/19: Geek.com: Robotic schools of fish made from 3D printers will patrol for water pollution [PDF]
• 9/19: Scientific American blogs: Synchronized swimming; patrolling for pollution with robotic fish [PDF]
• 9/12: ScienceDaily: Evolution keeps sex determination flexible [PDF]
• 8/22: ScienceDaily: Hyenas’ ability to count helps them decide to fight or flee [PDF]
• 8/17: Nature News: Hyenas can count like monkeys [PDF]
• 7/22: Futurity.org: Songbird ‘cologne’ drives females wild [PDF]
• 7/19: ScienceDaily: Avian ‘Axe effect’ attracts attention of females and males [PDF]
• 7/8: NPR’s Science Friday: The Story of Texas Longhorns, as Told by Their DNA [PDF]
• 6/20-7/11: New York Times Scientist At Work blog posts by Kay Holekamp
• 6/1: Ars Technica: Evolving bacteria through a game of rock-paper-scissors [PDF]
• 4/8: LiveScience Behind the Scenes: Understanding the brain as a computational network [PDF]
• 3/24: artdaily.org: Classic experiment from 1952 on the origin of life recreated in art-science exhibit [PDF]
• 3/24: ScienceDaily: Larger female hyenas produce more offspring [PDF]
• 3/23: ScienceDaily: In the race of life, better an adaptable tortoise than a fit hare [PDF]
• 3/22: NSF press release: Some outcomes of the evolutionary race buck conventional wisdom [PDF]
• 3/21: Carl Zimmer, New York Times: Tortoise and Hare, in a Laboratory Flask [PDF]
• 3/18: Science Podcast: Interview with Jeff Barrick and Rich Lenski
• 3/18: Cosmic Log: In evolution, slow and steady wins [PDF]
• 3/17: ScienceNews: In evolution, last really can be first [PDF]
• 3/17: NatureNews: Slow evolvers win in the end [PDF]
• 3/15: LiveScience: Large lady hyenas throw their weight into cub-making [PDF]
• 1/21: New Scientist: Telltale chemistry could betray ET [PDF]

2010 Press Releases

• 9/21: New MSU Research Sheds Light on How We Become Altruistic [PDF]
• 2/17: MSU awarded $25 million for NSF center to study evolution in action [PDF]

2010 Media Coverage