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The previous article was a brief, cursory introduction to the mesonychians. Time to look at things in a bit more detail...

Envision Credit Union launched their annual "Envision No Hunger" fundraising initiative earlier this month and will be matching up to $30,000 of all donations through July.

Even though the differences appear superficially striking, they do not involve any novel body plans (i.e., no new proteins, new tissues, or new organs).

See a statement from Wolfgang Van Halen.

Van Valen’s test is usually applied as a two sample test for equality of dispersion for multivariate data. Motivated by a comment of Manly (Van Valen’s test. Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, 2006) that “Little is known about the properties of Van Valen’s test” we develop an alternative test and compare the Van Valen test with our alternative robust test in an extensive simulation study. We find that Van Valen’s test does not actually test for equality of variance sums; however, ...

A new grant funds a collaboration of Caltech researchers and collaborators to study the connections between the gut and the brain and how this circuitry may affect Parkinsons disease

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s, affecting more than 10 million people worldwide. PD is

Carrollton High School seniors Emily Conn, John Van Valen and Andrew Herndon have been named Commended Students in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program.

David Van Valen is one of five fellows named this year by the Moore Foundation.

Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean swims a humpback whale named for a Hazel Dell woman.