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Nature includes all the natural, physical, and material phenomena in the universe. The term is usually used to refer to plants, animals, and geology in our natural environment.
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JUN 14, 2022Microbiology
Our planet has a plastic problem; plastic particles can be found in nearly every part of our environment, in organisms, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 14, 2022Chemistry & Physics
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) keep showing up in exciting ways in our Universe. A few weeks ago, an article was publishe ...Written By: Amanpreet KaurJUN 13, 2022Microbiology
The human body plays host to a variety of microorganisms, including fungi like Candida albicans. Some strains of Candida ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 12, 2022Genetics & Genomics
Genes hold the recipe for proteins, which are made of amino acids. DNA only has four letters, or nucleotides, and each s ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 11, 2022Drug Discovery & Development
Inhaled aerosol vaccines provide more protection than nasal sprays and evoke a stronger immune response. The correspondi ...Written By: Annie LennonJUN 09, 2022Chemistry & Physics
June 9, 2022, marks 117 years since Einstein published his groundbreaking paper on the photoelectric principle. The anal ...Written By: Hannah DanielJUN 09, 2022Technology
All living organisms are made of cells, as cells are the basic units of life. Cells are magnificent little things and th ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 08, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
It was long thought that when the membrane of a cell lost its integrity and broke down, the cell would die; cells cannot ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 08, 2022Microbiology
Bacteria have helped lay the foundations for complex life by creating a hospitable atmosphere on our planet, and they co ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 08, 2022Earth & The Environment
Let’s face it, learning about renewable energy is awesome. Everything from electric cars to solar power to the ong ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 07, 2022Neuroscience
While buildups of aberrant proteins called amyloid plaques have long been linked to the development of Alzheimer's d ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 06, 2022Plants & Animals
Food waste is an unfortunate and common occurrence. While the vast majority of food waste comes from unused food in home ...Written By: Ryan VingumJUN 05, 2022Earth & The Environment
Let’s face it, mountains are awesome. They’re awesome to look at and even more awesome to climb. There are f ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 05, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have long sought to determine how life first arose on our planet, and finding an answer to that question coul ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 04, 2022Microbiology
We all know that kitchen sponges can harbor lots of microbes. Even when they're washed with detergent or heated in the m ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 03, 2022Technology
Here we go again because science fiction hasn’t taught us anything about robots eventually taking over humanity. I ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 02, 2022Genetics & Genomics
There are about three billion bases in the human genome, and each letter is either an adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 02, 2022Plants & Animals
In a recent study of hummingbird behavior, The Company of Biologists, a UK-based company, recently found that certain sp ...Written By: Ryan VingumJUN 01, 2022Clinical & Molecular DX
Cancer vaccines have been around for decades, but a unique neoantigen vaccine called NeoVax is making researchers hopefu ...Written By: Zoe MichaudMAY 31, 2022Microbiology
Even this juvenile nudibranch from Quadra Island, British Columbia, has a microbiome. / Image credit: Niels Van Steenkis ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 31, 2022Neuroscience
Different parts of the brain have been carefully mapped, so we have some idea of what parts of the brain are used to per ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 29, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Mitochondria, organelles popularly known as powerhouses, are found in every cell, and they are crucial to cell function. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 28, 2022Genetics & Genomics
Scientists changed biomedical engineering and took gene editing to a new level when they created CRISPR-Cas9, which util ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 27, 2022Earth & The Environment
The Earth is a wonderful place full of both beauty and mystery. While it’s easy to both study and explore the Eart ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 14, 2022
Microbiology
Our planet has a plastic problem; plastic particles can be found in nearly every part of our environment, in organisms,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 14, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) keep showing up in exciting ways in our Universe. A few weeks ago, an article was publishe
...
Written By:
Amanpreet Kaur
JUN 13, 2022
Microbiology
The human body plays host to a variety of microorganisms, including fungi like Candida albicans. Some strains of Candida
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 12, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Genes hold the recipe for proteins, which are made of amino acids. DNA only has four letters, or nucleotides, and each s
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 11, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
Inhaled aerosol vaccines provide more protection than nasal sprays and evoke a stronger immune response. The correspondi
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUN 09, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
June 9, 2022, marks 117 years since Einstein published his groundbreaking paper on the photoelectric principle. The anal
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
JUN 09, 2022
Technology
All living organisms are made of cells, as cells are the basic units of life. Cells are magnificent little things and th
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 08, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
It was long thought that when the membrane of a cell lost its integrity and broke down, the cell would die; cells cannot
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 08, 2022
Microbiology
Bacteria have helped lay the foundations for complex life by creating a hospitable atmosphere on our planet, and they co
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 08, 2022
Earth & The Environment
Let’s face it, learning about renewable energy is awesome. Everything from electric cars to solar power to the ong
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 07, 2022
Neuroscience
While buildups of aberrant proteins called amyloid plaques have long been linked to the development of Alzheimer's d
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 06, 2022
Plants & Animals
Food waste is an unfortunate and common occurrence. While the vast majority of food waste comes from unused food in home
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
JUN 05, 2022
Earth & The Environment
Let’s face it, mountains are awesome. They’re awesome to look at and even more awesome to climb. There are f
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 05, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have long sought to determine how life first arose on our planet, and finding an answer to that question coul
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 04, 2022
Microbiology
We all know that kitchen sponges can harbor lots of microbes. Even when they're washed with detergent or heated in the m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 03, 2022
Technology
Here we go again because science fiction hasn’t taught us anything about robots eventually taking over humanity. I
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 02, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
There are about three billion bases in the human genome, and each letter is either an adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 02, 2022
Plants & Animals
In a recent study of hummingbird behavior, The Company of Biologists, a UK-based company, recently found that certain sp
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
JUN 01, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
Cancer vaccines have been around for decades, but a unique neoantigen vaccine called NeoVax is making researchers hopefu
...
Written By:
Zoe Michaud
MAY 31, 2022
Microbiology
Even this juvenile nudibranch from Quadra Island, British Columbia, has a microbiome. / Image credit: Niels Van Steenkis
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 31, 2022
Neuroscience
Different parts of the brain have been carefully mapped, so we have some idea of what parts of the brain are used to per
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 29, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Mitochondria, organelles popularly known as powerhouses, are found in every cell, and they are crucial to cell function.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 28, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists changed biomedical engineering and took gene editing to a new level when they created CRISPR-Cas9, which util
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 27, 2022
Earth & The Environment
The Earth is a wonderful place full of both beauty and mystery. While it’s easy to both study and explore the Eart
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc